WordPress BLOG website system is FREE to download and use ( http://wordpress.org/ ).  WordPress has a easy to use BLOG design template system which you can find and use for FREE many free templates online to get you up to speed quick.   We recommend at the very least changing your logo to give it your company branding.   The latest Worpress 2.7 version has been released and is the best version yet!

What is a “blog”?

“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites. Blogs range from the personal to the political, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.

Many blogs focus on a particular topic, such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, presenting links to all types of other sites. And others are more like personal journals, presenting the author’s daily life and thoughts.

Generally speaking (although there are exceptions), blogs tend to have a few things in common:

• A main content area with articles listed chronologically, newest on top. Often, the articles are organized into categories.
• An archive of older articles.
• A way for people to leave comments about the articles.
• A list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a “blogroll”.
• One or more FEEDS like RSS, Atom or FEEDBURNER (our favorite)

For some, blogs are strictly vanity projects as they ramble on about their daily observations to family and friends. For others, blogs take on a deeper meaning. Blogs can be used to make political statements, promote products, provide research information, and give tutorials. If there’s a subject that interests you, there’s a good chance someone’s writing a blog about it.

Everyone’s jumping on the blogging bandwagon. Blogs written by politicians, musicians, novelists, sports figures, newscasters and other notable figures have been spotted. Because of this, blogs have also been the center of controversy. Since one can write about anything in a blog, complaints about others are commonplace. In many blogs, names are named. There have also been issues with employees writing about their place of employment in blogs and getting fired. Though you can write what you want in a blog, you’re not exempt from the repercussions. Anyone who makes a controversial statement had best be well prepared to back it up.

Blogs have become so mainstream that the word “blog” was Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2004. It has even become a category on the hit television game show, Jeopardy. Families now use blogs to keep in touch and teachers assign blogs as writing assignments. “Newsweek” magazine even recommends a few notable blogs each week to its readers.

It appears that blogging is here to stay. Why not start your own blog?

If you are curious about starting your own BLOG, contact us for a qoute or look into some of these links to educate yourself how to get it going yourself ( ALSO: to get your blog properly sending out data to the internet to drive traffic, look into “SEO Wordpress” on Google):

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fA9zsIl4XU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePX_UUqrVno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUDM4q7utGQ