Thing #4

You can think of a blog as a phone call. You would not just call someone up and expect to only sit and listen and never add to the conversation. Blogs are intended to be interactive exchanges. If people did not comment on blogs there would never be an interactive exchange. The difference between a phone call is, they are limited to our inner circles of people we know. Whereas, blogs connect you to people you have never met, they could be across the country or across the world. By commenting you are giving others another point of view. Blogs allow us the opportunity to interact with people of diverse backgrounds through the commenting interaction of blogging.

I found it interesting when I read it is important to set up the complete profile. This is not something I like to do, but by not doing so people would not know anything about me. It is important to know something about a person you are communicating with to establish some type of relationship. I also believe it is important to follow blogging etiquette with your comments. Before you post you should stop and reevaluate what you are adding. Are you making concise points or are you just rambling to be heard. You also want the post you are commenting on to be something you truly have an opinion about. You want to be able to add to the conversation by showing it in a different light. Comments are a direct reflection of you and who you are to other bloggers. As I have read in others blogs do not comment just to be posting onto others blogs.

The blogs I have chosen to follow are Amy Monson - 23 Things, Andrea's 23 Things, Brown 3040, Education Class, and Melissa O's 23 Things for the education blogs; and Army Blogger Wife, and Erika and Brittany Status for the two of interest. The reason I chose the education blogs that I did was; one of them is my neighbor in class and am interested in reading and learning more about her, the other ones from what I could tell from their blogs they are much like me, a non-traditional student with children. As far as my two blogs of interest I chose Army Blogger Wife due to the fact I am a army wife and they too are at twenty years, but have chosen to retire, so I am interested to read of their transitions that they are embarking on. The Erika and Brittany Status is a blog of health updates on two young girls in Alaska who were involved in an accident. My husband in I lived in Fairbanks from 2001 to 2004 and we went to church with them and their families. I heard of the accident when it happened and they have been in my prayers and heart everyday.

I made comments on Army Blogger Wife, Amy Monson - 23 Things, Andrea's 23 Things, Brown 3040, Education Class. The reason I posted on these was because I felt that I could relate to what they had posted. Army Blogger Wife has to approve my comment first, but I commented how I have enjoyed reading about their transition in to civilian life from the military. This past August Tim (my husband) could have retired, and in some ways I wish he would have. On Amy Monson I posted about School 2.0 and that it has endless possibilities. Andrea's (well she is my niece) and I never had an idea that she was a blogger all along, plus I really like the design of her blog. Education Class I posted about the google tools and how 23 things has made me a fan of google.