Opening a blog: Quite an Interesting Experience.

Assignment: Open a Blog site

Having had similar experience in 2007 when I opened http://olamilekanbabs.blogspot.com/ with the name “Marketing+Brands/Comments”.   

For this exercise, I opted to use the blogger.com because I like the interface and page layout.  My O’Lekan Babatunde blogs page on https://www.blogger.com/home interface has a New Blog  button on the page. I followed the link which produced ‘create a new blog’ interface with templates to choose from.

I filled the dialogue box, in place of the blog title I filled in “Marketing News Plus” right underneath this is the address column, I tried several options and arrived at http://ngmarketingnews.blogspot.com/ as being acceptable.  

The next step, I browsed the many available templates and chose the ‘simple’ template to determine the page layout, position of pictures and colour make-up of the home page. There is also the option to customize the blog site with a view to giving it a personal touch. I decided not to explore this yet.

Other information required includes email address, blog name and definition of the subject coverage (focus) of the site. Having done these I pressed the “Create a new blog” button and I was requested to reconfirm email and password.  It took me to another interface with the name of the blog. This is back end from where I can upload stories. A button prompted me to  post my first story

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In a bid to take advantage of the seamless communication that digital platforms offer, the blog was syncronised with my facebook account so that stories uploaded can be shared with friends on facebook. A confirmation email was sent to my mail box to activate the blog.

Uploading the first post using the dashboard with the capabilities for the headline field, body text field and the add media (picture) field was actually smooth, it post no challenge as I followed the prompt buttons the different stages it suggests.

 My first post on the new blog - a picture, headline and body text with the following link http://ngmarketingnews.blogspot.com/2014/05/boko-halal-noahs-arks-csr-initiative  went up on 12^th may, 2014 and it was like magic even though I have done this before. The reason was that I never applied my mine to the different stages as I did in this assignment. 

Thereafter, I have published a series of stories with multiple pictures. The activities involved offered a fulfilling experience, sense of pride and achievement.

Name: Babatunde, A. Olalekan; Matric No. 171964

Course Title: Current Trend in Communication Technology - LAC 716