Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style
The blog: tool or genre?
A course by Alaíde Ventura Medina , Blogger and Writer
About the video: The blog: tool or genre?
Overview
“Is the blog a tool, a format, a literary genre in itself or a mixture of everything? In this unit I am going to tell you about its beginnings to better understand where it comes from and what it works for. I will also explain its background: the personal diary, the navigation log and the opinion column. ”
In this video lesson Alaíde Ventura Medina addresses the topic: The blog: tool or genre?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style . Develop the habit of writing daily and create a blog with your own voice that engages your readers .
Partial transcription of the video
“The blog: tool or genre? Now that you know who I am, let's start talking about blogging. It was the year 2000. The world did not end. Instead, blogs emerged. The internet became totally social. Hi5, MySpace ... Every online newspaper and magazine started to have a blog section. What is a blog? The Royal Academy of Blogs, defines "blog" as a website powered by a user and receiving feedback from other users: comments, "likes", "shares", "hate". The great scientists of the internet and blogs, I mean, my friends and I, we have not agreed whether a blog is a genre or a tool. A blog is a tool in ...”
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Course summary for: Blog Writing: Find Your Personal Style
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Marketing & Business, Writing -
Areas
Communication, Content Marketing, Content Writing, Copywriting, Narrative, Writing

Alaíde Ventura Medina
A course by Alaíde Ventura Medina
Alaíde Ventura is a blogger, Twitter content creator, and writer specializing in fiction, autofiction, and anthropology. Her books Como caracol (SM) and Entre los rotos (Random House) have been well received by critics and have earned several awards.
Alaíde's writing spans multiple genres, including novels, stories, personal essays, and chronicles, but she admits that her favorite format is the blog. She has written for media outlets like Canal Once, MTV, The Washington Post, and Time Out. She is currently studying an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso
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