AE #1 - Blogging?!

Hello there everyone,

Today I would like to take some time to talk about blogs. For the most part I would like to focus on corporate blogs because, well, I never really knew that they existed until recently. I looked at a few major corporation blogs such as Google, Whole Foods, Cisco, and Ebay. Going in to this I was really unsure as to what I would find on these blogs, what exactly does a company need a blog for? I thought, for the most part, I would find some useless information for a consumer and mostly information pertaining to, I don't know, investors? Well, let me tell you right off the bat, I was wrong!!! There is a lot of information on the blogs that is very interesting to consumers like myself. It may not be coupons that I can use or something of the like, but there was some fun stuff on these blogs.

One of my favorite blogs that I looked at was the Google blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/). Although this blog was not necessarily colorful and immediately bursting with energy, the content of the blog ranged from topics that I'm not really interested in to things that I was so amazed by. One of the blog entries that I read was called, "Exploring the Grand Canyon on Google Maps" and it showed a video of how the Google employees get the panoramic views of the Grand Canyon to put on Google Maps for anyone to view. The blog also had articles that I wasn't very interested in and ended up skimming over, but isn't that going to happen with any blog? I mean, unless the blog you're writing is directed towards 1 specific topic or audience, I think there will always be a few entries that some people will want to read and others will not.

The blog that I looked at that I liked the least was Whole Foods' blog (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/whole-story/). Right when I clicked on the link I thought to myself, "Oh wow, this is pretty cool looking." However, when I started reading the blog entries on the site, I quickly lost interest. For the most part I saw pictures of food and ads for things that are on sale this week at the store. While this information would be very useful for people who shop at Whole Foods, I do not and therefore I felt like I should just be done looking at the blog. I forced myself to continue looking around the blog to see if there was anything I might like but, I was unsuccessful in my search for anything interesting.

Alright, so here is the whole deal for me with corporate blogs. If you are going to make a blog for a corporation, have information on there for people who shop at your store, website, whatever it may be, but also add articles on your site that could get attention from people who may not even know what your corporation is. Make your articles interesting! As a consumer, I don't want to simply see a huge list of recipes and ads, I want some other information....something that interests me and keeps my attention.


That is pretty much all I have for corporations and their blogs! Thank you so much for reading!

-Libby

Introduction

Hello there everyone,

      Since this is my first post I suppose I should introduce myself to you. My name is Elizabeth, but you are more than welcome to call me Libby. I am 23 years old and have lived in Arizona my whole life, although I was born in Flagstaff and moved to Phoenix around age 5. The most important thing you should know about me is that I am a mother of a usually hyper 5 year old son named Sean. Secondly, it would be ridiculous for me to describe myself to you without mentioning that I love Mathematics. Although I am only currently in Calculus 1, I know that Math is something I want to work with every day of my life. Strangely, I never enjoyed Math until I began college, and now I can't seem to get enough of it. As you can now probably guess, Mathematics is my major at GCC. I hope to continue majoring in it (and learning about it) until I can't anymore.

      Now that you have learned the uttmost basic information about me, here are some pictures of my crazy child, Sean: