Career Building Through Blogging (Digital Career Building)

Summary of Deirdre Day-McLeod “Career Building through Blogging”

Explains that a blog is, describes different kinds of blogs, and discusses how to create a blog that will interest people, how to find readers, and how a successful blog can lead to career opportunities.

• What is this blog of which you speak?
• The importance of blogging
• Other ways to blog toward a future
• What do you want from your blog?
• Putting yourself out there

Career Building through Blogging written by Deirdre Day-MacLeod published by Rosen Pub., 2008 (ISBN 9781404219427)

Blogging (Point/Counterpoint)

Summary of David L. Hudson “Blogging”

Examines a wide range of topics related to the creation, use, marketing, and regulation of weblogs and explores how they have become more popular over the last few years.

• Many bloggers are journalists who deserve the protection of a reporter shield law vs. Bloggers should not receive the protections of mainstream journalists
• Employees should have the right to blog without fear of reprisal from employers vs. Employers should have wide latitude to discipline bloggers for comments detrimental to the workplace
• School officials don’t have authority to regulate students’ off-campus blogging vs. School officials should have broad leeway to regulate student blogs and student online speech

Blogging written by David L. Hudson published by Chelsea House, 2008 (ISBN 9780791096451)

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