Friday, March 26, 2010

Beverly’s Homeschooling Blog” is one of my favorite blogs; it is very difficult to find this type of blog.
The author of this blog is Beverly’s Hernandez. She is an educator, administrator, operating a home school book store and an advisor of the home school ministry in her local community.
She knows how to write a good blog and who you are inviting to your blog and what their requirements are. The overall display of the contents is very impressive and attractive.
She updates of this blog very regularly and other people share their own experience on this blog.
Contents of this blog cover all aspects related to the topic. Author is very careful with her grammar and punctuation which gives a very good impression to the reader. The message from this blog is very clear and concise. This blog might be more useful if the author include some videos how to teach at home. This blog has a lot of worksheets for every grade to help parents and students. The link of this bog is http://homeschooling.about.com/b/

Making a business card

Since there is a good source for making a business card, I’d like to make one. I think it will also help me to have a better idea for my report. I am planning to do business in the hotel industry. Therefore, presenting me or presenting my hotel to others is very important, and I think a good business card will help me. In my opinion, it is very important to have a small photo of my hotel on my business card. Also I need to have information that will help people to remember my hotel; a website address can be a good source for them to look at and have a first impression. I probably need both my phone number and the reservation number for the hotel. I should put my email address there too, because someone may prefer to contact me by email. I will try every effort to impress people when I am giving these business cards. I don’t hope that they throw it away after we finish the conversation. Maybe I should have some kind of coupon on there. If they present my business card to the front desk, they can get a discount. Then they will consider my business card is more important.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Passing the time at work

If one has an office job i'm sure they have to take a break and entertain themselves every now and then. There are blogs out there made to entertain you and get you through the day. It doesn't directly relate to business however everyone is guilty of procrastinating sometimes. When i'm trying to avoid doing work i turn to failblog.org. On this website an interested blogger can indulge in humorous videos and pictures. There are many responses to all of the pictures and videos and people can even rate them. I would definitely suggest taking a look at this blog next time you need to take a break and take your mind off work for a couple minutes.

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www.failblog.org

Writing

I reviewed a very well written and interesting blog about writing capabilities. The blog is very well written and has quite a bit of response to it. The blog is about a study they did where they got random people to write a paragraph in three minutes but told different groups different directions. One group was told only to write the paragraph, one was asked if they could be counted on and the last group was asked if they would do it. The best results were found from the people who were asked if they could be counted on. This blog has a couple graphs that make the information more clear and concise. The funny thing i found when reading this blog is that when people are told to write a paragraph about any topic most of them wrote about babies or cats.
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/11/casual_fridays_what_makes_a_go_1.php

THE POPTECH BLOG

Writing about any blog is not as easy as we think. Today I want to write about an It blog. The link of this blog is http://www.poptech.org/blog. This blog is the requirement of these days because this is an age of technology and everybody is looking for new ideas and inventions. The author of this blog is Kristen Taylor who is very active to update this blog.
Design and structure is very impressive and attractive. She knows how to capture the attention of the reader and it reflects in his tone and style. She and some other members regularly participate and include new hot news related to IT sector.
Contents of this blog cover all the requirement of IT related field. Writing style is purely professional and to the point. Mostly the author writes and discusses current IT related news and give the reference in text as well as visual material.
She uses proper IT related grammar and vocabulary to express his point of view to the website audience. The writers of this blog are related to IT sector and know importance to this field.

Business Cards

I've always wanted to have my own business card when I was young. I've seen so many television shows where people give their business cards to someone and they will always come to the person later on. I have been browsing on google about business for ten minutes and I've found a site called glprint. It is a site that lets you customize your very own business card. You can select various industries, uploading your own photo to print your business cards online. The site is very colorful and is easy to use. It would of been better if they have a video about how to make the business card and how to use the cards in real life.

The link is glprint

Small retail clothing business success

I reviewed a blog about the steps one must take to set up a successful fashion show for the opening of their small retail clothing outlet. Some of the steps include; sending local people free clothes and tickets to the event, twittering the event live, providing food and beverages for attendees, and making sure to greet your guests. The blog is short and doesn't go into great detail but it is a good outline of how to go about putting on a small fashion show. The author has provided two pictures, one of a small clothing store and the other looks like a banquet room with a large catwalk. I suppose these pictures provide a decent visual on how your store and your event should look. At the bottom of the page it shows related links which are all very similar to the article i read. There are only two posts replying to this blog which shows it is not very popular but still helpful.
http://www.catalystmarketers.com/fashion-show-event-hosting/

Website compared to a blog

As we know blogs are used by a individual or in small groups with daily entries of comments, new events that occur, or using graphics or videos. But a website is a single entity, usually are made by a person or more to create a sole topic or closely related. Blogs are information shared by an individual or groups that are shared amongst themselves who made the blog and other peoples online can comment on them to compliment or to argue that the information is wrong. On websites, usually all the information is about that single topic and have enormous amount of information relating to it, there are no comments because the websites usually have all the necessity information for everyone. Websites and blogs have many things in common such as both provide information but both can be right or wrong, there both online and the readers can read them, and they can be used as a business.

You can see the difference in these two relating to Canada businesses.

Link to Website

Link to Blog

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Evaluation of blog

Blog writing is an art.These days, professional people are available in the market who can develop any kind of blog according to the requirement of the customer.People are getting a lot of benefits from these professionally created blogs.
"jellybaby" is a company who make all the basic need for new born baby. This is a very attractive to my wife and me because when ever we want to select any thing for our children, we find new arrivals on this blog.
Presentation of this blog is awesome,its video presentation give us a fresh feeling and happiness. Contents of this site cover all the element which are required for any good blog.
Writing style is one of the element that attract the reader's attention and interest with proper grammatical style and vocabulary.
Company knows very well the requirement of new born baby and cover all needs. The way they choose for their products give the readers exactly the same message what they want to convey the readers. There is no voice in this blog but the the contents of this blog really say their value to the reader.
They update this blog very often and introduce new stuff to their customers. This blog offer every thing for new born baby and gifts for their mother but this site do not offer any thing for fathers.the link for this blog is www.jellybaby.co.uk

Evaluation of blog

I am writing a review of one of my favourite blog. I visit these types of blog very often especially in summer vocations. The link of that blog is http//www.canadatrip.co.uk/ .According to the Wikipedia, a blog is a different type of website.Usually, a blog is maintained by a person or group of people with regular entries of comments,update information,description of events or other material such that videos or graphics.
I like this blog due to many reasons and one of the main reason that its travel blog.The first impression of this blog is its awesome design and its attraction to every who visit this blog first time. we can find every thing if we have a plan to go abroad.Contents and writing style of this blog is very good. The people who manage it looks like professional writer who convey their message effectively with good writing impression. My suggestion to improve the quality of this blog is the lack of very frequent posting.Every month it should be update.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Re: Evaluation of blog

Ricky mentioned about blog writing business in this previous post. I am very interested in this topic because having a professional guy writing your blog is very common nowadays. I have three blogs on different websites; all of the three blogs are not so successful. I have started these blogs for few years and posted a lot of things in there, but there are not many people interested in my blogs. However, some of the new blog writers who are not famous or having something special, they attracted many attentions in a short period. I was confused that how they can be so successful in writing a blog. Then, one of my friend told that there are people who are good at writing blogs, and they can help you to improve your blog only if you pay them. I was so surprised when I first heard that. Later, I checked some of the websites, and found some people who are doing this. They also have some cases that they did successfully post on that web page. I talked with one guy, and he explained to me how this works. They will loin in your blog and start writing once they received your money. They will first organize and redesign your blog to have a better first impression for others who a reading this blog. Furthermore, they will write some attractive topics relate to you. At last, some of them will view your blog regularly to have a higher clicking rate. Higher clicking rate means more attention from others, and there is a better chance that your blog will get on the home page. They told that they can ensure a success within one month, but they charge more with person like me who did so badly on the blog.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Evaluation of blog

The author name the blog after herself, Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of Confidence and SuperCorp” (Kanter, 2010). In one of the documents in this blog is called “Getting Americans back to work”. She gives her own opinions about the US’s economy and gives suggestions to those who have lost their jobs. Her idea is very well developed and is connected with the topic. The blog is a about a school professor's blog, so it may give an impression of a professional professor in school.
It isn't a very professional blog, because she did not cite her sources of information. However, the page layout looks comfortable; she puts on some advertisement of related products which may give readers a better idea of business. She has information about herself and also inputted her Facebook and Twitter. In general, it is more like an advertisement of the school, because there is a lot of information on the blog that they could sell.
The content seems to be original, because there is a lot of her own opinions about today’s economy. The language used in this blog is proper, and the grammar is good too. It is very easy to read and to understand the author’s ideas. However, she did not use a lot of reliable resources to prove her ideas, and the suggestions she gave is not well developed.
She does not update very often; she only updates a new document once every week or two. The number of comments is varies from each other documents. There are many comments in her documents, but she barely replies to any of them.
The author of the blog knows a lot of things about business, but she doesn't provide much evidence to prove her statement. There are some information with links to Wikipedia and other internet sources, but it is difficult to find evidence by the readers themselves. However, it is more reliable than a lot of other blogs, because it is written by a school professor.
Kanter, R. M.(2010, March 1st). Getting American Back to Work. Retrieved March 1st, 2010, from http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/2010/03/for-all-my-cando-optimism.html
Her blog link: http://blogs.hbr.org/kanter/

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Evaluation of Blog

Link to the blog: Problogger

Evaluation:

This blog is about helping bloggers to improve their blogging and learn different ways to earn money just by writing about topics they like. His name is Darren Rowse who is a full time blogger that blogs both at Problogger and also Digital Photography School. This kind of blog seems to be very appealing to businesses since it involves making money.
The designs on the blog is very simple and organized because you can see recent topics on the left side, different subjects on the top, and sponsors on the right.
His focus on the blog is pretty easy to figure out because it gives you a link on the front page. The content matches the focus really well. It is very easy to read. On top of the front page click on the "Workbook" and there would be a topic called "Give me 31 Days and I'll Give you a Dramtically Better Blog... Guaranteed". It really stands out because it suggest you to buy a product from them that really helps you have to make a better blog. There are even people that bought the workbook recommending to get it.
The style of this blog seems to be very professional since he is a full time blogger that earns income. His ideas and opinions about blogging relates to almost all the topics he has posted.
Darren Rowse's site uses proper grammar and punctuations. It is very easy to read without questioning.
I think the site is very effect in putting out its message because almost all the topic shows you the information you require and also gives links to where he found the sources. He also writes 1-2 posts per day.
The audiences intended for this site seems to be the ones who are interested in learning how to blog or making money. Like in the early twenties.
The author is pretty interesting because he earns incomes for being a full time blogger. He started from a hobby to a profession in blogging. His life changed just by stumbling upon an article about "Blogging".
In almost every topic there is at least one video or other links to give you more information about the topic you are searching for.