In our discussion forum about blogs, there are a lot of people thinking whether blogs are just extended personal diaries or really something used to communicate a specific issue. Join the discussion and give us your position.

Blogging is nice, but do you also wiki? We are looking for people to help at our Conference Wiki. Why add some interesting thoughts to the page about this track. I count on your support.

Today we also have Marcus Beckedahl of Newthinking Communications with us. He gives us his compendium about Basic Patterns of successful Blogs in a powerful video message. Enjoy!

The discussion about blogging is really starting to fly in our forum. Nada Heyari recently opend a new topic, asking if the blogosphere is an alternative community. Please read this ongoing topic and give us your oppinion. In another topic our expert Abraham Olandres named some further resources you should check out. Have you seen is video on How Blogs became a Hype yet?

We advance in our agenda and take a look at best practices today: We are very lucky that Ariana Huffington tell us the story behind her famous Huffington Post. And we are delighted to have Rocky Bru with us, to dive into popular blogging in Malaysia.

So, the video by Abraham Olandres on How Blogs Became a Hype is finally online. (The volume of this video is a little bit low, you might need to turn up the volume a bit.)

Let´s discuss the findings of this video in the new discussion board of this track.

Hello and welcome everyone to the Opening of the Track about blogs. For the next four days I am your moderator and host. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to send me an email to burkert@virtuelle-akademie.de.