The Everything Blogging Book: Publish Your Ideas, Get Feedback, and Create Your Own Worldwide Network

This book was a tremendous help for me. I not only learned a great deal but had fun with this book as I began creating my blogs. I highly recommend this book. Makes a great gift. you'll love it.

I have been contemplating writing a book and a few people suggested creating a blog to test out ideas. I stumbled on this book and figured I would give it a read. This is a great book if you have little or no idea of what you want to do with a blog. It gives some good suggestions for things overlooked such as creating a sense of trust by filling out your profile so you give a possible reader an idea of why they should consider trusting you. It discusses the free services such as blogger and typepad and it discusses what they offer to assist in choosing a provider if you go that route. There are numerous links throughout the book that help with searching the Net for examples and ideas on what you may want to try. There are many advice points such as backing up your blog and being careful about blogging at work which causes people to get fired. There are suggestions for getting your blog noticed and some tools to assist your blogging. As I am new I can't judge all the material but I found it useful as it gave me a better idea about blogging and where to look for more detailed information. As mentioned this book is good for someone that is considering a blog and knows little or nothing. Someone who has already researched blogging, probably does not need this book. An advanced blogger can skip this book

Very easy to read. Will get you exciting about blogging and get you started quickly.

Once you read or skim the book, you understand blogging and can start your own blog. The book made me think about what kind of blog I wanted to start. The book compares the major blogging sites in text and chart form. It gives advanced information on photo, audio, and video blogging. The resources section lists a lot of free web sites and articles, and I have used it many times. Bottom line: this is as good as a source on blogging as any book will be, but any book on blogging needs to be supplemented by surfing the web.

Easy to follow informative book. Gives enough info to start a blog easily and quickly.