Almost everyone who is internet-savvy must have one way or another have encountered with the term blogging or blog. What exactly is a blog and how can it be a beneficial social media tool?

A blog is a contraction of the term web log, and it is a website which is usually maintained by a person with regular entries or posts of events, commentaries, and other stuff such as videos or photos. Most entries of a blog are shown in reverse-chronological order where the latest post appears on the topmost part of the site.

A lot of blogs provide news or commentary on particular subject matters and other blogs serve as personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, web pages, other media related to the topic, and links to other blogs. An important part of many blogs is the ability for readers to leave comments on blog posts. Blogging has an even looser meaning nowadays, that is it is any kind of media wherein the subject expresses his or her opinion or simply talks about something.

There are various types of blogs which differ not only in the kind of content but also in the way the content is written or delivered.

Some kinds of blogs are personal blogs which are the traditional and most common type of blogs and serve as an individual’s online diary or commentary website; corporate blogs are blogs which can be used for business purposes and are used either internally or externally in companies for good culture and communication within companies and for marketing and public relations with the public; question blogging which is a type of blog which answers questions; media blogs such as vlogs or video logs, linklogs which comprises links, photoblogs which has photos for content, sketchblogs which contains portfolios of sketches; and moblogs which are written or posted from a mobile device.

There are many blog hosting sites on the internet where you can out down your blog and have it hosted for free. The following are some of the top blog hosting sites available on the web:

• · Blogdrive
• · Blogger
• · Blogstyles
• · iAlmond
• · JoeUser.com
• · LiveJournal
• · Mindsay
• · Newblog
• · Open Diary
• · 20six

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