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PODCASTS

Find 3 sites that Podcast and use the RSS button to subscribe to your Google Reader. Tell us about the sites on your Blog. NB Appropriate content of course.

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Easiest Way to make a Podcast (for iTunes)

Embedding YouTube Videos onto Your Blog

• Find a YouTube video on (legal and non-offensive) area of interest
• Click on SHARE then copy EMBED code - right mouse click on highlighted code
• New Post in Blog - make sure you're on the HTML tag
• Right mouse click & Paste then click on COMPOSE tag to make sure video is there
• PUBLISH

WHAT IS A PODCAST?

PODCASTS

Podcasts - Personal On Demand news and information - when you want to watch it. Find 3 areas of interest that have a Podcast and tell me about them via a new post on your Blog. Also - tell me how you think a business could use podcasts.

FACEBOOK

Looking at Facebook & LinkedIn - social networking sites. Facebook is great to connect with friends, find old friends, and keep up-to-date with what everyone is doing. Also a good way to find out what your favourite businesses are up to (and who's having sales when!).
LinkedIn for some professional networking - great way to connect with professional people.
What do you think about "liking" business pages? Can you think of some advantages? Do you think having a Facebook page is a good way to promote a business?
Let me know your thoughts!

Thoughts on Blogs & Twitter

• Is Twitter easy or hard to use?
• What would be an advantage to using Twitter to promote a product?
• A disadvantage to using Twitter?
• Why might you use a Blog to promote a product?
• What might some advantages and disadvantages be?

Blog Basics

Check out this great site on Blogging and what you need to do (and how you can make money) that Dianne at Wollongong found
http://blogbasics.com/

Hi guys Welcome to the "blogging" world. We'll look at some business blogs (and you can check out blogs that interest you) to find out how they do it in the "real world"