1. Blogging For
Genealogists
By Dick Eastman
October 6, 2012

2. Today’s slides are available at:
http://www.eogn.com/handouts/blogging
Blogging For Genealogists

3. Presentation contents
• Origins of blogs
• Terms Explained
• Comparison to HTML web pages
• Examples of genealogy blogs
• Software required to read blogs
• How to create blogs
• The future of blogging
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4. What is a blog?
• Blog is an abbreviation for “web log”
• 10 Million or more blogs are online today
• It is easy to mix practical “how to” terminology
with technical terms
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5. Definition of a blog
A web log, or simply a blog, is a
web application which contains
periodic time-stamped entries on
a common web page.
In its simplest form, a blog is a
web page or a series of web
pages.
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6. Definition of a blog
You can read most blogs in a
regular web browser, such as
Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox
or any of the other web browsers.
Specialized software can add
extra functionality to reading
blogs.
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7. Who writes blogs?
• Private individuals
• Political campaigns
• Corporations
• Genealogy societies
• One-name societies
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8. Terminology
• RSS
• Atom
• XML
Don’t get lost in the alphabet soup!
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9. Why Use A Blog?
To publish!
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10. Where Can You Find Genealogy Blogs?
In the Genealogy Blog
Finder!
http://blogfinder.genealogue.
com/
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11. Where Can You Find Genealogy Blogs?
In the Genealogy Genealogists
Blogging For Blog Finder!

12. Where Can You Find Genealogy Blogs?
Cyndi’s Blog List
http://www.cyndislist.com/bl
ogs/
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13. Where Can You Find Genealogy Blogs?
Or on the Google Blog
Search
http://www.google.com/blogsearch
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14. Let’s look at a few blogs
We will first look at them
in a web browser.
We will later use a typical
RSS newsreader.
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15. This looks like a standard web page
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16. This newsreader looks more like e-mail
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17. Let’s look at a typical newsreader in operation
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18. In summation
Creating a blog with today’s
software tools is easier than
creating HTML web pages.
Your readers can read your words
in web browsers or in newsreaders.
You can “push” data to readers or
they can “pull” data from you.
You can increase the number of
readers by offering more delivery
options.
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19. In summation
All of this adds up to
a “win-win”
situation!
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20. Today’s slides are available at:
http://www.eogn.com/handouts/blogging
Blogging For Genealogists