I'm officially a blogger now!
I've been in marketing for 20 years, but have never experienced such a learning curve as when it comes to social networking and Web 2.0. Having taught myself numerous WYSIWYG programs over the years, mostly relating to graphic design, spreadsheets and word processing, I never realized I was being left behind as all the web based apps were speeding light years ahead. Although I had dabbled with Facebook and LinkedIn, I was really just scratching the surface.
Attempting to catch up, I've been educating myself daily by following the experts on Twitter, reading others' blogs and all sorts of books and online articles. For example, I've seen the small, orange RSS symbol on my computer and lots of web pages for a while now, but finally took the time to find out what does it stand for anyway? It happens to be "Really Simple Syndication." What is meant by that I've yet to learn. Maybe tomorrow...
Today, I set up this blog on Google's Blogger, and am now creating my first post. Another "tomorrow" agenda item is to figure out how to change the template and colors to match my corporate look. Will post again with some advice to social networking newbies and other pearls of wisdom.
1 comments:
Hello Kerri,
Congratulations on your new blog. It is an awesome time for us both that we're experiencing such a shift in traditional marketing that encourages us to share our voices in so many ways.
As you may know, I have also recently launched a few blogs. There is a definite learning curve that comes with everything that is being introduced on the web, especially since practically everything is in Beta these days.
Because we are both in the beginning stages of making our blogs awesome, I thought I would respond to your question concerning RSS or Really Simple Syndication. Besides, commenting is an integral part of blogging anyway and posting comments will benefit us both.
According to the popular blog Six Apart, "XML", "RSS" or "Atom" are all ways of saying that you can find any updates to a site without having to visit it in your web browser.
This feature is referred to as "syndication" or "aggregation" and sometimes it's called subscribing. This feature is sometimes labeled just "Feed", but there is often buttons that say "RSS" or "XML".
During some of my own research, I discovered Six Apart and found they offered an easy to read detailed article that also explains getting started, reading, subscribing and publishing feeds. You can find out more about these details at http://www.sixapart.com/about/feeds.
If you haven't already, please feel free to visit my blog at http://ghostexecutive.wordpress.com/ to offer any suggestions on how I can improve my own blog. And if it's been awhile since you've checked in at B.Wired Florida's Social Media Groove, you may be surprised at all the changes that have taken place recently. Here's the link to make it easy for you. http://bwired.ning.com/
Continue to build it and have fun while your at it. I look forward to seeing you at the next Southwest Florida Premier Tweetup. Until then, I'll be looking for you on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin.
Michele Lorito-Chase
Ghost Executive Group
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