HW 13: "Saying why Business Matters"

I personally feel that what is the most important is the impact of blogging on communication that is not business- or profit- related. I believe that self-expression is one of the larges forms of communications. In “Blogs will Change Your Life" Baker and Green both speak about blogging, “But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they're simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the internet itself." (Burstein and Kline 222) Blogs now a days are being used for everything you could possibly think of and imagine. For example, my discussion of social blogging is in fact addressing the larger matter of how social blogging is in its own way a platform for advertising one’s own ideas and opinions, but it is very different from that of business promoting. Social communicating and business promoting both have their obvious risks but it’s important to realize the real importance of a blog. It is not supposed to separate people but bring people together. Ultimately, what is at stake here is that I feel that there will be more to write about socially then about businesses. Business is something that is so traditional, and everyday- American that there really aren’t that many different view points on it. Baker and Green state that, “Companies over the past few centuries have gotten used to shaping their message. Now they’re losing control of it.” (Burstein and Kline 224) The unfourtanate situation that publishers have to go through is that they are losing their credit, because everyone is a “potential publisher.” Although social blogging that is non- business related may seem trival, it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over the larger matter of personal representation. The thoughts in my blog are mine alone, no one else’s. However business blogs are often business related and are intended to educate the mass media, but social networking sites primarily focus on social communication and situations.