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Welcome to Ben's Blog about Blogging. This Blog includes definitions, articles, interesting links, video, audio and posts and attempts to make sense of how Blogging can be used effectively in an educational context.

This Blog has been created using Blogger, a free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP. You need to create a free Google Account in the process of setting up this Blog.

Check out the post: "Create a Blog: The 5 Minute Blog", for a basic demonstration on how to set up a Blogger account so you can start Blogging. Enjoy!

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Ben's Blog Navigation Tip: What are Labels or Tags?

Each time I create a new post, I can include a label/s or tag/s. A lable or tag is a reference word or words that can be used to search for related posts i.e. If 3 posts have been tagged with the word Blog, you can go to Labels or Tags in the right-hand column; find and select Blog (3); and retrieve all posts with the label Blog.

At the bottom of each post, you will see all labels or tags associated with that post. For example, at the bottom of this post there are 3 labels or tags: Bookmarking, Del.icio.us, Labels, Pictures, Posts, Social, Tags.

This is a form of social bookmarking within the Blog. At the bottom of the Blog page you can see another, my Tag Roll, an example of bookmarking through the Social Bookmarking Manager, Del.cio.us.

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