My First Blog Post

My name is Beth Dillon. I am from Iowa. In our system back home I am a junior, so year three of four. I am studying Business Management with an emphasis in marketing at Central College. I have worked with different non-profits doing social media and community outreach. This summer I worked for an investment company as a Corporate Relations Intern. I enjoy the creative side of marketing and thought this course would be beneficial to learning techniques in social media. I currently have a facebook, twitter, pinterest, instagram, and snapchat account. I enjoy instagram the most. In the future I would like to do marketing for a magazine or department store.

The name blogs comes from combining web log. Blogs are great because they are easy to use and anyone can do it. This can be an advantage or a disadvantage as they are so open and the accuracy of the posts cannot be guaranteed. Another disadvantage is someone could easily post information without giving proper credit to author (Kamel).  

http://www.violetanedkova.com/

This blog is very well put together. At the top of the page is her title, "Marketing with Purpose and Personality" and her picture. This makes the blog very personable and easy to relate to. She has pictures with each of her posts, creating an organized and polished look. She connects with the readers by writing in a conversational tone, instead of formal. She also has a section offering her help to make you successful. In her articles she has links to her social media and to other pages she has found useful. 

http://intergeek.co.uk/

This blog has a color scheme of red and a light blue. It doesn't appear as relaxing or user friendly with these colors. The organization of the page appears as a news page. With each article is a picture, date published, title, introduction sentence, and number of comments. 

It is nice that it has the introduction sentence so you can sample the article before clicking into it. On the bottom of the page there are ways to connect with the author, but he could simplify it down to just the social network logos. It's nice it has the subscription box at the top and it's easy to recognize. 

http://www.oktopost.com/blog/

This blog is very simple with the black and white theme and the setup of the submissions. The pictures pop out against the white background drawing your eye to each submission. 

This blog is directed to marketing over social media. It is good to have a focus. Once clicked inside each submission, there are links to social medias making it easy to share the submission with friends if article is interesting. It is written in a formal style making the readers feel confident in the information given.



Kamel Boulos, Maged N., Inocencio Maramba, and Steve Wheeler. "Wikis, Blogs, and Podcasts: A New Generation of Web-based Tools for Virtual Collaborative Clinical Practice and Education." BMC Medical Education (2006): n. pag. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.