What is BlogWare?
by
Tom Bryan
on Sat 03 Jul 2004 08:34 AM PDT |
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There are many ways to look at Blogware:
It's a web site management tool.
Blogware makes it easy to add, edit and organize information on your web pages, whether it's text, photographs or files.
It's a photo album that's accessible any time, anywhere.
Blogware has
features that make it easy to upload, organize and show your photos.
You place your photos in virtual photo albums and annotate them with
short captions and longer descriptions. It even has features for
resizing and rotating photos so that you can get the photos from your
camera to your web pages without fussing with a photo editing program.
You can even use your camera-equipped email-enabled mobile phone or PDA
to post your pictures directly to your blog.
It's a tool that allows you to collaborate with co-workers.
You can use
Blogware as a company-wide newsletter for general news and
announcements. You can use it as a place to store revisions of a
document, or even have your co-workers collaborate on the document.
It's also a good tool for keeping track of projects: you can post
status reports, assignments or data pertinent to your projects. You
co-workers can be notified by email whenever you update your work blog.
If you're fond of buzzwords, think of Blogware as a knowledge
management tool.
It's your own personal soapbox.
"Freedom of
speech," the maxim goes, "is only for those who have one." Blogware is
your own personal publishing service that makes it easy for your to
take whatever you want to say to the world and place it on the web.
Feel like jumping for joy or ranting? Do have your own commentary about
the politics of the day or the service at the restaurant down the
street? Are you an aficionado of books, movies or music with an opinion
you'd like to share? See any interesting web pages that you'd like to
point out to the rest of us? Whether you're a "thinker" or a "linker",
Blogware is the tool for you.
It's a way to keep friends and family up to date.
If you've got
friends and family scattered across the four corners of the world, you
can use Blogware to publish your "what's happening with me" page,
complete with your words and pictures. You can set up your blog so that
your friends and family are notified by email every time to make a new
blog entry or post a new photo.
It's a scratchpad for your ideas and projects.
You can use
Blogware as a way for keeping track of the evolution of an idea or
project, whether it's a paper or book you're writing, an assignment for
school or work, or even your plans for taking over the world.
Blogware's web-based nature means that you can access your ideas
anywhere, and its post by email feature means that you can brainstorm
anywhere with your email-enabled handheld device.
It's a journal.
Some of the best
stories out there are personal stories, and the growing popularity of
weblogs will attest to that. Blogware makes it easy to enter, organize
and publish your stories. Blogware also makes it easy for you to set
how public your journal entries are -- you can keep them to yourself,
share them with your best friend, your circle of friends, or the whole
world.