BSOL: A Session on Blogging

Today I delivered a session on blogging to members of Brisbane Seniors Online. I found the participants totally engaged with the topic and brim full of questions.

The session slides can be viewed here. Blogger has a wealth of tutorials for beginners here.

A big concern from the questions asked was privacy. Privacy around who could see the blog, who could view one's profile, how to moderate comments. Google has a Privacy Policy here. In it they explain:

• What information Google collects and why they collect it
• How Google uses that information
• The choices Google offers, including how to access and update information

A couple of articles on privacy that may be of interest:


 The eGov AU blog is also a good source

These links were published in 2005 but are still pertinent

Sharing Yourself Online: Privacy While Blogging

Blog Safely  

Social Media News can be found here a great place to learn all things social media from monthly stats on Australian's use of the various social media to infographics on top 10 brand pages on Facebook.

Creative Commons can be found here. Creative Commons is an international non-profit organisation that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally.

My blog can be found here, where I share my thoughts on social media for workplace learning and development and personal learning/knowledge networks.

Social Media Use in Australia

It's really interesting to see the statistics on the various social media Australians use. Notice how Blogspot/Blogger is third whereas WordPress.com is 6th.

Social Media Statistics Australia – August 2012

1. Facebook – 11,500,000 Australian users/accounts (up slighly – as reported by Facebook Australia Cheif, Liam Walsh) – 13 million UAVs according to Google Adplanner (users logging in from multiple locations – home, work, school etc).
2. YouTube – 11,000,000 UAVs (steady)
3. Blogspot – 4,000,000 (down 10,000)
4. LinkedIn – 2,200,000 (steady)
5. Twitter – 2,114,000 (new formulae, see calculation below)
6. WordPress.com – 1,600,000 (steady)
7. Instagram – 1,283,500 using Facebook estimate, see calculation below (475,000 UAVs)
8. Tumblr – 1,200,000 (steady)
9. TripAdvisor – 960,000 (down 100,000)
10. Flickr – 820,000 (steady)
11. Pinterest – 620,000 (steady)
12. Google Plus – approx 600,000 (see calculation below).
13. MySpace – 390,000 (steady)
14. Yelp – 192,000 (new entry – yelp.com.au and yelp.com AUS figures)
15. Reddit – 150,000 (steady)
16. StumbleUpon – 110,000 (down 20,000)
17. Digg – 77,000 (steady)
18. Foursquare – 63,000 (steady)
19. Delicious – 30,000 (down 3,000)

Thanks to Social Media News for the above data