WordPress as a Blogging Tool

I’ve experimented with a few different tools for blogging over the past few years.  Wordpress seems to meet my basic needs:

1. Web-based – Its in the cloud, so I can get to it from anywhere and don’t have to run my own server
2. Easy to Use – Not just to write one blog and easily adjust the themes, but to manage multiple blogs
3. Free – C’mon, lets be realistic; why pay for something when there are perfectly good tools out there?!  When I need more, I’ll buy into a more advanced platform, but for 90% of us out there, WordPress works.

Now, if it only took dictation so I could rant from my cell phone rather than actually sit down and type this, maybe I’d update it more than a few times per year 😉

Blogging is not for everyone or every purpose

This link makes some interesting points about where blogs don’t fit. Even more so, it adddresses what traits or expectations do not fit blogging as a means of boosting your cause.

Blog Concepts Help

Here are some helpful links that I’ve gathered to educate people on blogs:

• Business Week article discussing blogs and their pending impact on business as we know it.
• Article on internal blogging that has good key points to blogging in general.
• blawg: a great starting point for finding blogs on the legal community.
• lexBlog: a paid blogging site catering to the legal community
• Akron Law School law blog pathfinder: a good overview of blog for law
• blogs & PR: Nevill Hobson (good blog) on marketing & PR via blogs
• Blog Tips: blog basics from LifeTips
• Blogmaverick: Mark Cuban’s blog; a good example

Feel free to comment with your own favorite blog sites