Children update blogs as regularly as they please – some updating information daily whilst others may only update occasionally or never update their blog at all.

Blogs give children the ability to share their views with friends or the public. They can improve writing and grammatical skills as well as keyboarding and basic Internet skills. Some children prefer using blogs over traditional forms of writing.

Parents and teachers can use blogs as creative writing support tools for children. Safe and private blog systems can be set up on school computers for children to use within their class.

What is a Blog?

Short for ‘web-log’ a blog is a newsletter or article posted online.

A blog gives you the forum (and space) to say everything you have

ever wanted to say about your business.

The advertising benefits of a blog are many but most importantly,

a blog gives you the opportunity to build a bond with the consumer

that is far different than a single ad. By creating detailed content

about your business, products, services, events, customers, and more,

a blog gives the consumer a better understanding of all that you do.

Blogging Benefits for Non-Bloggers

Blogs have enormous benefits for non-bloggers.

Let's be serious, most people don't and may never blog. Many of you reading this may never blog.

Most inhabitants of the blogosphere don't blog. But they keep reading blogs. Why? What are the benefits?

Blogs are an enormous and effective information source. I can think of many stories that the mainstream media didn't get quite right, but that blogs did. Often these are admittedly in niche areas, but hey, we all live and work in our own niches!

I know a great sales guy – the kind you want to buy from because he doesn't waste your time and is always trying to offer you value. He wouldn't dream on calling on a company without doing basic blog research – reading any official company as well as non-official employee blogs, and looking for any recent mentions of the company and their products in blogs. He benefits from the blogosphere, and I don't see him ever blogging.

One big company I've work with has no immediate plans to blog, although I set them up to regularly monitor the blogosphere using tools like PubSub and Technorati to see what their customers are saying and get a lot of valuable feedback that way, as well as keep up on industry trends and sentiments.

Most people don't write books, but a lot of us benefit from reading – probably everyone here. Blogs are getting a greater percentage of people to publish information, and that benefits both bloggers AND non-bloggers.