Cool Aggregation

Week 10 of my course thought me how to bring all my social networking sites together through an aggregation tool. I choose Yahoo! since I already have an account. This is a really cool tool. I am learning to link all my other sites into one - FB, travel sites, news sites, blogs etc.

This makes it easier to access. It's like getting a new toy. I will be experimenting with more!

Cheerios!

More to blogging

My e-learning journey has been very interesting so far. The past 4 weeks in the course taught me many technologies related to teaching and learning. Learning to tag on delicious was fun and it made it easier to organize articles and navigate to my favorite sites in a jiffy.

The article in Week 4: The Art of Blogging, I find the part on uses for blogging very apt. Blogging has become so popular and so part of a daily lifestyle (for the bloggers) that it has become (from the article) a platform for all the following:
 Knowledge sharing and knowledge management
 Customer service
 Interactive journalism
 Communication
 Self-expression
 Learning
 Self-marketing
 Campaigning/social reform
 Community building
 Experience tracking
 Storytelling

Apart from that, advertisers are putting their ads on your blogs. For example Nuffnang, Asia’s First Blog Advertising Community. They place ads that are relevant to your blog sites. Say, if I am a food blogger and blog on good places to go to for the different types of food, I may have ads from Starbucks, Pizza Hut, etc and I will get paid for the number of hits my blog gets. Great way to advertise and earn money as well!