The best thing about starting a new blog is customization. What will my background be? What fonts will I use? What catchy title can I come up with? What witty URL will be available? All of this fun comes within the first couple days of a new blog. The hard part comes later with actually sitting down and formulating something to write about.
In the past, I kept a blog as a type of travel diary for my family to read while I was away. Not always the easiest thing to do if you're somewhere where free wi-fi is about as common as a free public washroom (ahem...London...). Another nice thing about a blog as a travel diary is that you can read your old posts and remember some long forgotten details that make you fondly remember events that at the time were disastrous.
I recently created a Wordpress blog and let me tell you--Blogger is certainly more user friendly! The customization options are fewer (refer to my first paragraph), but for the purposes of this NB 23 program, Blogger is working quite nicely so far.
I'm seeing the NB 23 community growing day by day and look forward to reading about everyone's experiences and sharing my own. A great way to learn a bit more about the people we work with, whether near or far!
Great first post, Robin! I like the template you used. I think you're the only one so far to choose a "Travel" template.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that you mention that Blogger is more user friendly than Wordpress. I used Wordpress for two classes during my last semester because the professor said it was better. I'm looking forward to using Blogger now and compare!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that you say you prefer Blogspot. Ook finds that Wordpress offers more ability to customize and much better navigation for finding tools, a more logical and efficient dashboard, etc. On a vaguely-related note, Ook wonders if Google sneaks a lot of robots through to raise the traffic stats, as they seem a bit on the ridiculous side for Ook's homework blog! Or perhaps his little haiku is just very, very popular. Perhaps he should compose another.
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