Video Journalism for Small Business: How to Set Up a Blogger Blog

I've been told one of the best ways to learn is to teach, at least going through the process of teaching helps cement in ones own mind what is supposed to be happening. The act of actually getting your students to learn is or might be another issue altogether. Learning is different for everyone. We all learn at different speeds and in different ways. Some of us learn by watching, by listening, and then there are the ones of us who learn best by hands-on. Just diving in, sink or swim and learning from the mistakes we make along the way. This is pretty much the technique I used when I was the senior Driver Trainer at F.O. Day Company. Mind you driving a CDL heavy construction dump truck is quite a bit different than blogging or computer work of any kind, but the hands on principals are the same.

So this post I'll cover the steps I took to create this, my very first blog (the one I made because my boss wont let me learn what I want to learn until I can understand the basics of blogging)

What is a blog?
wikipedia says this:

A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (Video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

If you want a blog you have to decide on a blog platform, there are a few to choose from.

There are 3 top blogging tools, 2 are free, the 3rd costs money.

Blogger.com (Google owns this)
Wordpress.com (very good but has certain limitations, pros and cons)
Typepad.com (not free)

If you want to blog, have it be easy, hands down the best place to start a blog is on Google's blogger.com