Create, Innovate & Evaluate in Higher Education

Is blogging "out of date"?

Useful comparison chart. 

A useful guide for choosing the tool that fits your teaching context and learners' needs.

I've used Posterous as one of the easiest to set up blog platforms, based on it's amazing integration of video, photo, audio & documents) over the past 3 years - vs. Wordpress, not so much.  However, the "you own it" aspects of doing this come home to roost as Posterous founder Sachin has been recruited to Twitter, along with Posterous, and things are changing.

So now a "back-up" button appears for Posterous, and it may be a good time to transport Posterous over to Wordpress to self-host what you have, as an example of this post above.

Google Analytics on Wordpress is amazing, and Jetpack is a easy, souped up tool for easy analytics and social media integration.

~  Deb 

Self-hosting a WordPress site is the next step, after folks feel they've outgrown the free wordpress.com sites.

Both org and .com variants of Wordpress are a delight to use, I have sued them for years, had to abandon my hosted Wordpress blog when I upgraded my website.  I miss it.