Lesson 1 on Blogging to the Bank

What is a Blog?
Do you keep a diary? Even if not, you will at least understand the need to keep one. If you understand the concept of keeping a diary, you will understand the concept of blogging. Blogging is a way of sharing thoughts and ideas with people online

In case you’re wondering what at blog is, it’s simply a web page where entries are made in a journal type style, kind of like when somebody keeps a diary. The truth is, blogs have been around long before people started calling them blogs. It just took a while for them to get a technical name. They are great for sharing information and ideas. One of the differences between a blog and a website is that blog is less cumbersome and need no professionalism in terms of HTML code knowledge and so on.

Blogger.com says:
“A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.”

Iyabo Oyawale believes that blogs are “.basically online journals or diaries that are frequently updated”.

Blog are easy to make and can be loaded and updated quickly.

The need to blog.
Simlply put, it is to afford you the opportunity to get your own web page where you could publish your findings, thinking and attimes worries. In other word a means to express yourself, turn your thinking into a daily journal of thoughts and ideas and make the whole thing available to the world?

Well now you can, and if you do, you’ll be joining the phenomenon that has become ‘blogging’.

Thats all for thlesson 1
....next lesson is going to cover, the platform to use and how to make moneywith your blog.