A COMPILATION OF JOURNALISM AND CREATIVE WRITING STUDENT CORALIE REDDEN'S PORTFOLIO WORK.



Saturday 27 October 2012

CLASSIFICATION

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT WAY THAT YOU CAN CLASSIFY OR GROUP BLOGS?

Three main stream blog sites are Blogger, Wordpress, and Tumblr.

Blogger and Wordpress are blogs which have the ability to create and change the web-page layout to your likings and to suit the content involved. They are more so the blogs that are in written format and can provide links to other websites and up-loads of pictures and videos. Photo-blogs for photographers or fashion bloggers is tumblr. Which is an assortment of photos, which can also include written content. Depending on which sort of content you choose to blog as an individual.


As a blogger the aspects that you need to consider are:
1. What kind of blog do I want to share?
2. What will the content be?
3. How will I deliver the content? Pictures, articles, opinions?
4. Who will be my demographic audience?

TYPES OF BLOGS:
Personal blogs: Bloggers represents something personal about themselves, a diary, to express feelings, even if no body reads it
Topic driven blog: Hobbies, passion and professions. Fashion blogs are huge with the highest rating blog on bloglovin being Fashion Toast - www.fashiontoast.com
Corporate and organisation blogs: Marketing or public relations with the purpose of communcation and advertisement for a business/publication
Genre specific blogs: Form of content and its particular subject: For example travel, music, or  a film review blog

BLOGLOVIN' categories include:
Art, beauty, design, DIY & Crafts, Entertainment, family, fashion, film, music and books, fitness, food & drink, home decor, mens fashion, other, personal, photography, street style, wedding

Blog post content can include:
Trends, interviews, reviews, lists and rants - These sorts of posts allow for engagement via comments from readers, and thus a wider audience.




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