How to Start a Blog for Free http://wisestartupblog.com Learn how to start a professional blog, and start building an audience and monetizing your blog. Read our free guide today and start your own blog.
Postach.io [Blogging driven from Evernote] http://postach.io/ The blogging platform powered by your Evernote documents.
Postach.io is the easiest way to publish the thoughts you're already capturing in your Evernote. If you currently have notes in your Evernote account, you're ready to publish right now.
Why learn a CMS when you already use Evernote? Simply select a notebook, add a domain name, then tag notes as "published" to share great content. It's that easy.
You'll never need to migrate your posts to a haven. Since your Evernotes are stored locally on your machine or mobile, your data is always in your possession and easy to take with you.
Inspired by the ease of Tumblr, rolling a Postach.io theme is as easy as creating a single HTML page with inline CSS. We include the technical stuff like Google Analytics, Disqus commenting and share buttons.
WordPress increases its domination ... http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/05/07/wordpress-top-100-blogs/ WordPress increases its domination of the top 100 blogs
WordPress is strengthening its position as the dominating blogging platform or Content Management System (CMS) used by the world’s top 100 blogs. This year, WordPress is used by 52% of the top blogs, up from the 48% we identified in our study in 2012.
With over 65 million WordPress sites in the world, it’s clear that Automattic’s platform is popular. But let’s have a look at the entire top 100 ....
Kidblog http://kidblog.org/home/ Over a million K-12 students have a voice at Kidblog.
Kidblog is trusted by teachers around the world.
Set up your class for free in 20 seconds -
no student email addresses, no ads.
There is also an iPad App
Publish your blogs on Kindle https://kindlepublishing.amazon.com Publish your blogs on Kindle
Amazon Kindle Publishing for Blogs is a fast and easy self-publishing tool that lets you add and sell your blogs on the Kindle Store.
Kindle Blogs are auto-delivered wirelessly to the Kindle and updated throughout the day. They are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so they can be read even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle contain full text content and most images.
21Classes http://21classes.com/ 21Classes is a turnkey solution for creating your own customized multi-user Classroom BlogPortal. 21Classes is a product offered by 21Publish.
-Host and manage blogs for your students
-Use a Class Homepage to communicate with students
-Reviewing capabilities of entries
-Advanced privacy
-Fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert videos
-Fun learning experience
-Customizable visibility and comment settings
-No e-mail address required
21Classes helps you to aggregate your students individual and independent blogs.
Scoop It https://www.scoop.it/ Create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant social media streams
Publish it to people sharing the same interest
There’s one button in Scoop.it that you cannot miss: the Bookmarklet. The principle is easy: while you are browsing the web, if you stumble on a very interesting link (it can be a video, a song, an article, a picture, or whatever), you can share it directly on your Topic on ...
Travel Blog http://www.travelblog.org/ Travel Blog ... Travel Blog is a collection of travel journals, diaries and photos from around the world.
Start a free travel blog today - unlimited photos, videos and blogs, fast and independent.
Travel Forum - join up, participate in travel discussions Join the TravelBlog Travel Forum
Kidblog http://kidblog.org/home.php Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog.
Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.
Set up your class with no student email addresses.
Review at Ms. Naugle's Classroom Blog
Kidblog http://kidblog.org/ Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog.
Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs.
Set up your class with no student email addresses.
Set up your class free in 60 seconds
SquareSpace http://www.squarespace.com/ Squarespace initially looks like simple Blog hosting but is in fact Blog Hosting on steroids
The line between Blogs and a fully functioning website are blurred here ... this is NOT free
21 Classes http://www.21classes.com/ Multiple Classroom BlogPortals? Also, as a site admin you may choose to moderate every new entry posted by a student before it is being published. In case the entry is in any way inappropriate or you feel that the student should rewrite his/her entry, you may defer publication and inform the student.
Subscription service
WordPressDirect http://mashable.com/2008/11/23/wordpressdirect/ WordPressDirect: Like Blogging Without the Blogging
Armed with little more than a desire to publish on a topic, users can create and maintain any number of content-packed, automatically-updated, search engine optimized (SEO) niche websites powered by the WordPress blog engine.
OnSugar ... blogging platform http://mashable.com/2008/10/10/onsugar/ "OnSugar is a blogging platform with a twist. The service has added several functions usually found on other social networking sites so that it feels like a blend of WordPress mixed with Twitter.
For example, on the homepage you can view the public timeline which updates with posts from all blogs or just those you follow. You can also follow bloggers and their blogs and send them private messages (just like Direct Messages)."
The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress http://mashable.com/2008/09/26/wordpress-weirdest-uses/ The 7 Weirdest and Wackiest Uses for WordPress "Over the years, WordPress has consistently proven to be the most popular blogging system out there. Millions upon millions of blogs run on WordPress, and that’s not counting those that are hosted on WordPress.com, Automattic’s free, hosted blogging service."
Scribble Live ... Live Blogging http://www.scribblelive.com/ Welcome to on-the-spot live-blogging.
Are you a Broadcaster, Publisher, Educator, Corporation, Social Group, Writer, Student, Blogger or Individual?
Scribble Live allows you to be an instant publisher, live to your community.
Don't forget to invite your friends or colleagues. Not much point live blogging if no one is participating with you.
Think of it as a media rich conference call.
Never before has a live blogging publishing experience been this rich, easy and fast. No interface to learn, no program to download, no delays.
Whether the participants are using a browser or mobile device, text, links, pictures and video appear instantly with no reloading, live from the centre of the action.
WeblogMatrix .. Compare Blog Hosts/Platforms http://www.weblogmatrix.org/ This is the right place to compare the features of all those weblog tools you heard of.
WeblogMatrix is here to help you decide which weblog is the best for your needs.
You can compare, choose and discuss the various Weblogs and their features.
Open Diary http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/blog/index.html Writing ... with a Diary (online website) .. screencast tutorial for "Open Diary"
This is not a true Blog platform ... but there are similarities.
CoveritLive http://www.coveritlive.com/ CoveritLive has been in development since 2006 in response to the increasing need to deliver real time reporting to readers of blogs and newspaper sites. Writers were struggling to create so called ‘live blogs’ for sports, political events, television shows, conferences and earnings calls but the existing software was holding them back.
Chatrooms, forums and discussion boards often denigrated into a place for spammers and a small handful of people who felt the need to dominate the group.
CoveritLive took the concept of instant messaging and combined it with the idea that an informed, smart writer could make a live blog worth watching. From there, content (video, audio, images) and interactive (polls, viewer questions) features began to fall into place.
Movable Type http://www.movabletype.com/ Movable Type
A platform for building easy-to-maintain blog, web, and social media sites.
Blogger Buzz ... what's new on Blogger http://buzz.blogger.com/ Blogger Buzz ... what's new on Blogger ... and they do seem to be continually improving it ... Brilliant
Tumblr and TumbleBlogs http://www.tumblr.com Tumblr and TumbleBlogs
Am just not sure if I should list this as a "Presence Monitoring" application or as a new kind of Blog (which does not accept comments and the Posts tend to be shorter than normal)
To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks.
You can also look at tumblelogs as slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create.
Choosing a Blog Platform http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/15/choosing-a-blog-platform/ Choosing a Blog Platform
These are just some of the typical questions that I get asked each day from bloggers starting out and attempting to make a decision on which blogging platform or tool they should choose.
I’m not going to tell you which blog platform you should use because, as you will see, there are good reasons for choosing most of the available platforms depending upon the goals of your blog.
What follows is my attempt to flesh out some of the factors a new bloggers might like to consider in deciding on a blog platform. It is probably impacted by own experience of blogging over the last three years and the preferences I’ve accumulated in this time. I invite readers to add to this post in comments below with their own ideas and experiences so we can have a more balanced and useful collection of tips for readers considering such a choice.
Gaggle Blogs http://www.gaggle.net/ Gaggle Blogs are a way that students and educators can interface with the rest of the world.
Gaggle Blogs are filtered for inappropriate words and phrases.
All images are scanned for pornographic content and all URL links are checked for pornographic content. If any rules are violated, the offending blog entry for will be blocked and sent to the authors administrator email address pending approval.
Help using Blogger (listserv community) http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help Help using Blogger (listserv community): Blogger Help Group
Welcome to the Blogger Help Group, where you'll find answers from expert users and even our own Blogger Employee (an official member of the Google team). If your specific question isn't answered here already, you can post it and let the experts weigh in.
Vox : personal blogging service http://www.vox.com/ Vox is a new personal blogging service. It's all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about.
* Control exactly who gets to see each of your posts and photos.
* See all the posts from your friends and family on one page.
* Bring in content from other web services you already use (Amazon, YouTube, more).
Best Blogging Software (review) http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2006/may/19.html Best Blogging Software (review)
The blogging platform wars are getting really interesting and much of the discussion I find myself in lately revolves around what is happening with various CMS systems.
The market can essentially be defined into 3 major camps: remotely hosted, self hosted, and community based systems.
I have used pretty much every blogging platform available and each of them has its ups and downs. In this article I will cover the best options for each area taking into account price, usability, market share and of course SEO potential.
blogSpirit (collaborative blogs) hosted platform http://www.blogspirit.com/en/index.php blogSpirit (collaborative blogs) hosted blogging platform
A blog or weblog is a website intended to share your opinions and thoughts by inviting others to comment.
Today, blogs are powerful mainstream media to communicate with your readers. blogSpirit is a free blogging platform offering the best features available.
One of our main commitments is to make blogs available to anyone who has no technical skills. That is why our blogs are free. blogSpirit offers more than 100 features including 10 key features. blogSpirit.com makes it easy for you to publish posts, pictures and documents and to have total control over who can see the content.
Yahoo Blogging Service http://360.yahoo.com Yahoo Blogging Service | Blog Hosting |
Gaggle Blogs http://gaggle.net/ Gaggle Blogs
Gaggle Blogs are a way that students and educators can interface with the rest of the world.
Gaggle Blogs are filtered for inappropriate words and phrases. All images are scanned for pornographic content and all URL links are checked for pornographic content.
If any rules are violated, the offending blog entry for will be blocked and sent to the authors administrator email address pending approval.
Gaggle is also dedicated to providing safe e-mail accounts for students.
incsub http://incsub.org/ incsub is an organisation devoted to social software and open source in education and training. Founded by James Farmer, incsub is the home of edublogs.org, learnerblogs.org and uniblogs.org as well as Blogsavvy and incsub associates consulting.
As well as providing blogs, incsub also assists educational professionals in experimenting with online leaning environments, content and community management systems and other social software applications.
Salon Blogs : Blog Hosting http://www.salon.com/blogs/ Salon Blogs : Blog Hosting
A blog, or weblog, is a personal Web site updated frequently with links, commentary and anything else you like. New items go on top and older items flow down the page. Blogs can be political journals and/or personal diaries; they can focus on one narrow subject or range across a universe of topics. The blog form is unique to the Web -- and highly addictive.
Salon Blogs are powered by Radio UserLand, a simple yet versatile software tool that lets you post new items from your Web browser with one click. Radio UserLand automatically builds your site, organizes and archives your posts, and publishes your content -- you don't need to know HTML, FTP, or graphic design. All you need to do is install Radio and begin publishing. You can publish written text, links, photos, documents, and more with just a single click of your mouse.
weblog | blog |
Pitas http://www.pitas.com/ Tired of updating your "news" page for your website and want a page you can update easily, quickly and from any web browser?
Pitas.com is now offering free and easy to update pages with an easy-to-use web interface. Most people use their pitas page to create some sort of "recent news" page for their site, or a weblog (basically a list of links with some commentary that is updated frequently)
Xanga http://www.xanga.com/ Xanga is a community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own free journal, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too!
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Yahoo 360 http://360.yahoo.com/reg/whatis.html Yahoo 360
Let people know what's interesting or important to you. Post photos. Start a blog. Share lists and recommendations, anything. Show who you are and what's in your life -- all your delights, dislikes, and playful passions.
You'll have complete control over who sees what. After all, your relationships with different people vary. So we've provided options for you to control access to any and all parts of your page.
With Yahoo! 360? you'll have one place to keep the important people in your life connected to you. And one place for you to stay connected to them.
BLOG (available at Alan November's site) http://www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39 Build a BLOG at Alan Novembers Site ... FREE
Features include whenever a comment is posted an email notification is sent to the the BLOG owner who can approve or not
Educators Guide available at http://tinyurl.com/a77bm
Edublogs : free blogs for teachers http://www.edublogs.org/ Edublogs : free blogs for teachers
Edublogs.org is built using WordPress MultiUser which means that you?l get a fully featured WordPress blogging platform to work with, for information on what that means checkout the features and FAQ.
What makes edublogs.org different from, for example, Blogger is that we?e dedicated to educational professionals, we?e nice and small (by blog provider standards), we?e aiming to provide more and more freely available (and ad free!) emerging online technologies for your use?and we?e got a much better blogging tool at our disposal
Learner Blogs : Free Blogs for School Students http://www.learnerblogs.org/ Learner Blogs : Free Blogs for School Students
Learnerblogs provides free, high quality, WordPress blogs for school students.
b2evolution http://www.b2evolution.net/ b2evolution is a comprehensive blog engine
It includes almost any feature you could expect from a blog tool, and more
Plus, it's free (instant download), it's open-source (GPL), it runs virtually anywhere (PHP/mySQL) and it's available in many languages!
Open source downloadable blog software
Blogmeister http://classblogmeister.com/ Blogmeister
There are many freely available tools that facilitate blogging, but none seem especially suited for the classroom. That is the reason for BlogMeister.
This online blogging tool is explicitly designed with teachers and students in mind, where the teacher can evaluate, comment on, and finally publish students' blog articles in a controlled environment.