Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Elements of a good blog

As discussed in todays tutorial for KCB201 effective and useful blogs need to excel to the following areas. essentially four simple rules for quality blogging.

-Credibility
-Accuracy
-Resonablness
-Support

In addition to this the subject needs to be an area of interest to the author. According to Donahue (2008) the co-creator of Fanblogs, " Blogs become successful because of specificity and passion in the work".

To end on an inspirational note for blogging from Donahue (2008),
“Have a single focus about a topic you really enjoy, and put a little of yourself into it."

Referencing
Donahue, K. 2008. This is not a blog, http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/notablog/story/good_blog/ (accessed 12 April , 2008)

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