This long blog post is all about blogging, so grab a box of popcorn (or a cheeseburger) if you are interested to know more about blogs. Recently I was presented with rather interesting opportunity involving speaking about blogs and what you can do with them. IABC Saskatoon organized “Social Media 2.0” event aimed at providing more insight into the working of various “tools” available for companies that they can use to boost their social presence. More details of events can be found at IABC’s website: http://saskatoon.iabc.com/archives/645 “IABC Social Media Conference”.
Disclaimer: I am not a professional writer, so you will see weirdness in the sentences as usual J , bear with me or you can put some music on, to make it less painful in case you are still interested to proceed further. Do not worry copyright found at the bottom, I did not forgot about that 
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Now that we got that out of the way, let’s talk a bit more about blogs and what I had to share to a very keen group of wonderful ladies, who were kind enough to put up with whatever I had to sayJ. If anyone from that discussion is reading this post, do not worry there was no “jibber-jabberish” thing said. I tried to stick to the plan of not making myself look like a foolJ. I think it worked but dunno will wait for the survey results. I will try to post the results or stats I should say when they are made available to me.
Before you guys lose interest there you can contact me via my site: http://www.a1whs.com/support.php , the email from there comes directly to me, one thing about the web I learnt the hard way is, ‘not to mention my email address on sites’. Doing that, acts like a magnet for spammers/bots that will not stop at any cost. So, a simple tip do not put your email address on any random website, try to create an image if possible and link to that instead, or maybe insert image if you are allowed to on that particular site. Avoid the normal format of ‘youremail@spammeplease.com’ …. Ok that name sounded interesting, hence just ended up buying it even before I could complete this post. I have an idea for that domain already. Will share, more info in separate post.
I do regret that at the social media event those who were talking about a topic did not get a change to go around to different tables to discuss about technologies they have not interacted with. For example, me!! I wanted to check out the Twitter session, but alas that was not to be. Hopefully one day I will get around learning more about Twitter and how it works. Have used instead Digg and other social bookmarking sites (which is what I think Twitter is). Facebook, I was not really much interested in, for I do not like Facebook much one of the many reasons is listed in one of the other posts here at bloggy. I wished that there would have been a round set aside where all the speakers get to meet up and discuss and learn about technologies they have not used. More time for each individual table per round would have been excellent, because I had some serious session going and quite interesting questions were raised. Knowledge sharing was what interests me the most. I realized that few know of blogs as “what a 17 year old would post on”, I am thinking now, maybe that is what the younger generations call “myspace” , a personal blog?
Few things about blogs and examples of how it can be used to power your business/website:-
- Blogs if setup right can be used to power your entire site. Example(s): http://www.phpyproxyhost.com/ my personal webhosting company, http://saskatoon.iabc.com/ << where the social event took place. Just a note to self and webmaster of IABC to update the WordPress backend. It’s outdated and not really secure.
- Blogs add additional features to your website, which normally are not available in simple site that are just html pages. Features include:
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