I just sent a lengthy, enthusiastic, e-mail to someone with a link to this blog that made me suddenly realize I really am liking this blog. I keep finding myself coming back in and doing little tweaks to it here and there and wanting to post to it. I don’t know if it’s been WordPress I’ve been looking for or that I’m finally at the “settling down to blogging” time in my life but I keep thinking about ideas to blog about.
I like having the links to del.icio.us, flickr and Bloglines in one place where I can also post an idea, thought, or some rambling stream of consciousness. It’s also a tangible example that I can send friends and colleagues to to see how something like this can work on both a personal and professional level. I think I needed something like the structure of this course to give me the kick start to pull the jumble that has been swimming around in my head for a very long time an organizational anchor.
I hope this is the beginning of a long and happy relationship with blogging. I hope I can keep this up, check back in six months and see if I’m still blogging. Only time will tell but right now, as I said, I’m really liking this!
Third time is a charm!
WordPress has become my all-time favorite blogging software, and I wish I had discovered it before redesigning the SEMLS Web site. We use Movable Type for our site, and it is robust, but I think WordPress is a little more flexible.
I started teaching my blogging classes with Blogger, but we had to go into HTML code to make simple changes to the template. Then I started using blog-city, but they got rid of their free accounts about a year ago. I was thrilled to use WordPress for my most recent classes.
I love the way you can easily plug in all your other social apps so that they are available in one central location. You’ll find that Facebook does this quite well too. All of this really is driven by RSS. Since all of these apps push out data in a standard way, they also can integrate it in a standard way as well.