Adopte a Blog Outline

Today I did my presentation on Adopt a Blog. I did my presentation on OWL blog which stands for Oklahoma Weather Lab. Below is the outline of what I talked about.

Katie Graham

 

Andy Chilian

Director of Media Productions

Oklahoma Weather Lab

 

http://okwxlab.blogspot.com/

Outline of Presentation

1. History of the blog? and How has their blog changed from when it started?

·         Started out on website http://owl.ou.edu and there would be a picture presenting the information in visual form.

·         Late 2012 post became more than a paragraph long and sometimes there would be special-interest stories.

·         OWL website didn’t have viewer traffic and it wasn’t easy to create or edit posts.

·         Lack of ability for people to comment on posts and little ease when posting to social media

·         Summer 2013 the blog moved to Blogger to increase viewer traffic and make the blog feel more like a “blog.”

·         All the blog post prior to summer 2013 are on blogger and blogs before 2013 are on the web site http://owl.ou.edu/archive/

2. How long blogging?

·         The first post was on May 7, 2007.

3. Who is the blogger? (Age, profession, etc)

·         College student’s freshman through seniors (eighteen to twenty-two), and a few transfer students in their late-20s. 

4. Why do they blog? and Purpose of blog?

·         To inform the public about past, present, or upcoming weather events. Some event can be major.

·         Example when the May 19, 20 and 21 tornado occurred there was great detail on those posts.

·         Other times there may be a blog post to give the forecast for the upcoming week or holiday.

6. How often blog?

·         There are some gaps but the goal is to blog at least twice a week (in media shifts). 

7. Geographic location?

·         Blogs are written from the National Weather Center in Norman, OK and cover the entire state of Oklahoma 

8. Number of followers?

·         Zero 

9. Monthly traffic?

·         According to blogger in August 1,012 

11. Does it make money?

·         No 

12. What makes this blog unique?

·         Unique organization student-run and student-led forecasting group on campus which give the forecast.

 

13. What are its strengths?

·         In addition to blog posts visitors can connect with OWL blog through social media.

·         The posts may easily be shared through social media

·         On OWL home website there is an RSS feed to the latest published blog post.  

14. What are its weaknesses?

·         Sometimes formatting of pictures is a problem on different browsers and platforms.

·         Additionally, we do not yet have the amount of viewers that we would like to have. 

15. What is the advice of the blogger to you and other bloggers?

·         Blogs should be insightful and more than just a couple of sentences. Additionally, thought this should be common sense, blogs should be written I clean English, free of grammatical and spelling errors. 

Oklahoma Weather Lab

OWL Blog Assignment

This is What I took a Picture of.

From my last post I posted the picture below and asked the question what am I taking a picture of 

and f is the answer.

Spoon, Knife, and Folk dispenser.

What am I taken a Picture of?

A. Midfirst Bank sign

B. Pictures

C. Floor

D. Window

E. Tree outside

F. Spoon, Knife, Fork dispenser

G. Light on ceiling 

 

New Design and Color on Ocue Cups

Haven't heard or seen. There is a New Design and Color to the cups at Oncue Gas Stations.

Starting with 16 once cups the new color is purple, the 24 once new color cups are red, the new color for 32 ounce cups is blue.







Last cups are the route 44 cups with the color green.









Whatever brings ones thirst, the new cups at Oncue are the same sizes with different design and color. Pick up favorite cup, fill it with favorite drink, don't forget to PAY for it and enjoy.

Visitor on Car Tire

I had a visitor on my car tire at home parking space. I also took a video and in the video while I was filming I had a thought not to get to close, but I didn't listen and I had a visitor on top of my head. I didn't get video of that and that would have been something to see if I did.

 

 

Blogger App on iphone

The other day I downloaded the blogger app on my iPhone. After the app was downloaded I opened it and played around with the layout. I like it for I can upload text or picture anytime where there is Wi-Fi available. I prefer right now to use desktop and or laptop computers while using blogger. This may or may not change for me later on.

 



Guest Speaker

Today we had a guest speaker in blogging class. His name is Dr. Kurt Hochenaner. How did Hochenaner get start in blogging? He was working in journalism at different news rooms and realized there was a need for liberal writing in Oklahoma. In 2004 he opened up a blog named Okie Funk. His blog has been in the news from different media sources.

What I learned from Hochenaner to have a successful blog that will stand out be unique and have good writing. Another source to starting out with a blog make sure to have a stable platform example BlogSpot or Word Press. Watch out for spam in you blog this will cause the host server to suspend your blog for too much spam. When attacks come to one blog post try to talk about the idea and not the person.