What is a blog?

Blogs (short for web logs if that helps) are a place where individuals can post their own comments, ideas and thoughts and others can respond to them. At the moment, we have blogs enabled on this site. Right now, you are looking at an item from Ken Walker's blog. It shows up on the front page as a new item when there is a new blog entry. At the bottom of this item, there is a link to "Ken Walker's blog". That will take you to my own blog section of the site where the things I have added can be reviewed along with any comments other users have added. Essentially, this is a way of having a discussion categorized under the name of the person who has started the discussion.

This could be a place for, say, comments from our President, or from any other member for that matter. Right now they are set up so that anyone coming to the site can see them.

For a better description of what a blog is, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog and then use the back button in your browser to come back here.

To start your own blog, click here.

For discussions that are organized and categorized by topic, see the Forums section of our site.

I am not sure blogs are useful for our site, but they are here for now. Unless people tell me they want it and begin using it, I will take it out in the interest of simplifying the site so if you find it useful, please let me know. You could do that by adding a comment to this blog entry. --Ken Walker

The Virtual Newsletter

See The Virtual Newsletter in the May 2007 issue of the Rotarian for more information about blogs.