Blog: a Web site on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities,
and experiences (Marriam-Webster)
Blogging has seen an uprise
during the new century, and you are able to find blogs covering almost every
topic thinkable. People have different reasons for blogging, some may be doing
it for personal pleasure where as others do it for a profit.
By blogging you add content
and personal opinions to the blogosphere and, if you don’t limit access to your
blog, something for the whole world to see.
This can have positive and
negative impacts. By blogging on certain topics you can express your knowledge
and by that advance your career-opportunities and in some cases even set up a
lifestyle evolved around blogging. On the Internet you can see countless of
examples of people who have set up a whole career based on blogging. This goes
for a lot of fashion-related blogs, lifestyle, traveling.
It is not uncommon for
employers to find potential employees through sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and
by searching blogs.
As with everything you post
on the Internet, it is important to
Think and plan on what the
ramifications of what you post can have.
Having a fulfilling front
stage of your persona on the Internet can lead to new opportunitiesis also
seen, which is also seen in the research done by Richards and Kosmala, where
for one blogger, it “led to opportunities for a new career” (Richards and
Komala, 2013, p. 75).
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blog , Retrieved September 25, 2013
Richards, J., & Kosmala, K. 2013, ‘in the end you can only slag people off for so long: employee cynicism through work blogging’, New technology, work and employment, Vol 28, no.1
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