Live Your Dream Blog

I looked at a blogging site for women called Live Your Dream.org. It is an inspiring site that tries to empower women into living their dreams. The site has many different blog posts for women including career, health, financial, and lifestyle. The main function or purpose of the blog site is to give women tools and advice to help them accomplish their dreams. The blog links you to many well-known women bloggers to research more into their work and brings their work to you on their site. The public appears to be well incorporated in the blog. They can send in their blogs or articles and have them posted on the site to help inspire others as well or just to have their story heard. They have an area on the blog called live your dream and it is a space for the public to get daily inspirational readings, words of wisdom, or tools that may help them accomplish their goals. The public is also free to post comments and share and like the blogs to give feedback. The blog appears to me to be well rounded including both the writer and the public.

The blogging site has a lot of substance. There is the main page which highlights featured blogs for the day. There is a section that tells all about the site and what their goal is that they are trying to accomplish. There is a section to donate and to volunteer if you'd like to get actively involved with what they are trying to accomplish through their blog site. There is a lot of content. The blog has featured bloggers but it also links you to former blogs that were on the site. There are 4 sections which are career, financial, health, and lifestyle that all blog about different aspects of a woman's life and how to help her through and motivate her. You can pledge, join the site, and shop all to help the cause of helping less fortunate women and girls' accomplish their goals in life.

I feel that it is an effective blog. The site has loads of information. If I would click on career it brings up all of the career blogs for me to choose from and there are a lot. If you like a specific blogger you can click on their name and it will bring up all of their work. It does this for every section you click on. It is very well organized and put together. The site provides details and allows you to comment and give feedback and in that way I feel it is effective for the public because there is an interaction occurring. The main purpose of the blog is to help empower women and I think the site does exactly that. There is no negativity on the site at all. It is all positive and uplifting material aiming to make you become the person you want to become by giving you tools and readings to help you along the way. Since the goal of the site is to help women I believe it does exactly that. By the time I was done reviewing the site I wanted to join.

When you are crafting a blog I feel it is necessary to have a goal in mind. You need to know why you are blogging and what you are trying to achieve. You need to say what you are trying to achieve and how you are going to achieve it. The blog needs to have good, reliable information and links to sources to back up your information. A very important aspect of a blog is a comments or feedback section. It is important to let the public know that they matter. If you don't they could very quickly lose interest and not follow your blog. Blogs can be very effective if used in the right way. When blogging it is important to remember to stay ethical and honest. Don't provide misleading or false information. That is detrimental in a blog when following best practices.

I've never looked to much into blogs before this class but I'm starting to expand out and research them a little more. This blog I found interesting and informative and full of stories and information that I didn't even know were available. It made me want to research more blogs and see what I could find. I found this to be a great mode of delivery for information because everything you could possible need is right in front of you at the click of a mouse.

Resource:
Live your dream.org (2013). Retrieved from http://www.liveyourdream.org/yourdream.html