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The rise of the Blog
A blog is your online journal with your reflections, ideas, comments and links. They're not just for personal use, blogs are fantastic tools for organisations, companies and any team environment, allowing groups of people to create and publish content online quickly and easily, without technical know how.
artsblogs.com has been especially established to provide a gathering place for arts people around the world to congregate and blog. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project "8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped
58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say
they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information
delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online; and 12%
of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. "
Blog-watch site Technorati has a nice page on Blogging Basics which is well worth a read if you are a new comer to Blogging.
artsblogs.com Features
artsblogs.com is a straight forward, easy to use way of having your own Blog.
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Easy and Familiar Interface
The artsblogs.com Administration Interface is laid out in the familiar Microsoft Outlook style, with clear and obvious menu options and functions. A 'quick help' box at the lower left of the screen continuously displays useful instructions for whatever task you are undertaking. |
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Plenty of Formatting Options for Entries
When adding and editing Blog Entries, a series of buttons gives you easy ways to format your text - bold, italic, numbered lists and so on. Or to insert a link to another web page, or to an image.
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Submit Blog Entries Remotely
With artsblogs.com you don't have to log into the web site to submit a new Blog Entry. Using our Email Submission and Blog This features, you can quickly add a new Entry even when viewing a page on another unrelated web site. Or, if you have an email-enabled mobile phone or PDA, just email Entries direct to your Blog wherever or whenever you like. |
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Get Your Friends Involved
Each artsblogs.com Blog can have an unlimited number of Users, who can all submit entries, whether via the Administration Interface, or via Email or Blog This. Get your friends or work colleagues involved, set up a Blog for a project and let all of your team contribute. |
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Categorise By Theme or Topic
You can split your Blog up into themes, topics or sections by assigning each Blog Entry to one or more Categories. You can have unlimited Categories, and thus there is no limit to the number of ways you can organise your Blog. |
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User Defined Templates, or Just Use Ours
artsblogs.com provides a number of preset Templates to display your Blog. Or if you're bit more of a code cruncher, you have complete control over your Template, to edit and design your Blog however you want. |
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Visitor Comments
It's great being able to write your own Blog, but it's exciting to know someone else has read it. With Blog Comments you can let visitors contribute to each of your Blog Entries, contributing their own feedback. You remain in complete control, however, you can turn Comments on or off, and choose to approve Comments before they are published. |
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