Examples of Successful Blogs

There are countless examples of people who started out writing a simple blog and were able to turn that into an exciting career or success story. Among the most obvious examples would be Ree Drummond, a housewife from Oklahoma who began writing her blog, The Pioneer Woman, in 2006. In it, she documents her life as a wife and...

Benefits of Blogging

The blogging community, sometimes referred to as the blogosphere, promotes the open and free interchange of thoughts and ideas. There are no editors or censorship. You are free to discuss any subject you like and offer even the most radical opinion without fear of being quashed or silenced. There also is no set schedule, so you can write as...

What Is Blogging?

The word “blog” is an abbreviation of the term “weblog”. Back in the early 1990s, when the internet as we know it today was still in its infancy, weblogs were a form of online diary keeping. The earliest bloggers would share details of their everyday lives on first-generation blog sites such as Open Pages and Open Diary.  By...