Assingment #1 Bloggers

List of Potential Business Uses of Blogs:
MTV, Yahoo, Myspace, Facebook, and any news station such as FOX, CNN.

Blogs does not have to look and feel like traditional marketing and advertising. Blogging is like a diary online where people express their thoughts or recommendations freely. There should be no restrictions how blogs are suppose to look or feel like.

Blog is not a fad. It is a new way of sharing thoughts or recommendations on the information superhighway. If a person is looking to see what kind of cool gadgets are coming out, they could go to www.engadget.com. Engadget has many techie products with information, recommendations, and comments on the specific product.

Blog will have some impact for marketing, it can be another form for marketing. A person who goes on a website like Engadget. They are browsing through the many comments and recommendations on techie products. Most of the techie products has the brand names or logos on the product. It is like free advertisement for those companies because their products are mention in a commetary.

It would be nice if the marketing department or any major department to start a blog. Blogs can talk about school events to comments about professors ( i.e. www.ratemyprofessor.com).