This book will teach what you need to know about blogging from A to Z.WHAT IS BLOGGING?The word blogging was generated from the word blog which is short for weblog. According to the dictionary a blog is a website on which someone writes about personal opinions, activities and experiences. It also contains online personal reflections, comments and hyperlinks provided by the writer. A blog is a personal online journal that is often updated and used for general public consumption. A blog is a combination of content that is organized repetitively to give an illusion. It's also a website that allows users to ere their views, opinions and contributions on various subjects. This content can take the form words, audio, video, or images.WHY DO YOU NEED A BLOG?-You need a blog to engage people in knowledge sharing, reflection, and debate which often attract a large and dedicated readership. -Blogs are becoming an important component of the Internet landscape, providing authors and readers with an avenue for unedited expression, reaction, and connection, without the official mediated chat rooms or formal media outlets.- The simplicity of creating and maintaining blogs enables open discussions which can be created immediately, making blogs an ideal venue for far-reaching discussions among the Internet environs on new or timely topics. -Blogs foster the growth of communities and are dynamic ways to evaluate and critise self-created knowledge. A blog can be built manually through writing the post, uploading to a website video then publishing. A blog can also be managed by software, sometimes called a CMS (Content Management System), where a lot of the features are automatically created and populated.