In my other role as the Haas EWMBA Student Association’s Communications Committee co-chair, I help to administer a set of blogs that are hosted on blogger.com (aka blogspot).
Instead of forcing people to use special tools or (heaven forbid) HTML to create web content, we decided to use blogs. This is because blogs are targeted at average people(bloggers) who are more interested in creating content than programming in HTML.
This means that the main Haas EWMBAA webpage is a single blog. All the individual webpages of the various committees are individual blogs with different URLs e.g. “http://haasewmbaa-communications.blogspot.com/” which is the blog page for the Communications Committee.
If we had done it the traditional way, we would have had to teach people Microsoft Publisher and set up FTP accounts and all the rest of the good stuff. The advantage of that would have been a more consistent set of URLs e.g. www.haasewmbaa.com/communications
The downside would have been less content.
With that background out of the way, I have to say that setting up a blog with blogger.com is much easier than with WordPress.
For one, it is easy to set up the content on the right margins. Within minutes, I was putting up pictures of the communications committee members, pictures of Haas, links etc.
WordPress, strangely, requires you to edit HTML if you wanted to change the general look and feel of the blog.
So if you are wondering why there is no picture of the Silicon Valley Geek…