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Old Sat Dec 17, 2011, 01:14 AM
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Using a blog

At sites designed for pure blogging (rather than conversation and interaction) you make regular posts, with or without photos, on a dedicated set of web pages. You do most of the talking and your news updates are the primary content. You can think of a blog as a public diary. Other people can usually leave comments or sign a visitors log, but what they write isn't displayed as prominently.

There are many blogging sites that are free to join, but these sites may be supported by advertising that can appear on your blog page. Some sites let you choose your own domain name (e.g., myaplasticstory.com), but you'll have to pay for that.

You have to go through a number of steps to set up a blogging site. You control almost everything about your site, but that takes more work than posting at a forum site.

Don't forget to consider privacy when posting about yourself online. Read the Marrowforums Privacy Policy and the privacy policies of any blogging site you use.


Medical patient blogging sites

Some websites specialize in blogging for medical patients. A number of Marrowforums members have blogs at these two sites:
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Sample blog page at CaringBridge


General Blogging Sites

General blogging sites let you create a blog for almost any purpose, choose from thousands of styles, and choose part of the your blog's address (e.g., mdsbegone.wordpress.com).

Among the well-known blogging sites are
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Sample blog page at Tumblr

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