Barbara determined that a blog is the main tool she needs for communicating with her readers. She elected to use Blogger (blogspot.com) because the hosting company, Google, takes care of all of the technical parts. She just needed to select a standard template from on of the many available and customize it to project her personality and meet her communications needs. Her Blogger site contains all of the basic information required for a website that we discussed in the Al's Website article. As her audience grows, she can either expand the capabilities of her blog site or create another solution.

Barbara's blog allows people to follow her* or to subscribe to her blog via RSS/Atom syndication.

Some Recommendations:

• register a domain name (e.g. BarbaraBlackwidow.com) and directs it to her blog site
• create a Facebook account and a fan page
• join 40+ networking site like eons.com

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(*if you are a Blogger member, you can follow Barbara's blog)