If you do not have a blog today, you really should consider getting one.

There are a number of reasons why you should have a blog.  The one that I am appreciating more and more is the simple fact that all of your information is saved and archived in one spot.  You can chart your growth as an individual by the topics you post and who is reading your posts.  You can foster a sense of community by participating in blogging causes.  Blogs are excellent platforms to get the word out to the public about a specific area that you are passionate about.

More and more people are getting blogs.  Politicians have them.  Obama had one and McCain did not have a very active one.  Could that have made a difference in who is President of the US now?

Search engines love blogs.  Blogs have loyal readers.  Blogs are really very easy to set up, update and post to.  Free blogs are the best way to start.

Here is a short video clip I made today.  Hopefully it will convince you to start a blog.  If you need help to get started, the blogging puzzle is a great resource to guide you to making and promoting your first blog.

Is There Such A Thing As A Quick Fix?

Word Press has been really busy lately with updating and upgrading their blogs.  I am finding that while the Mastermind Pros Blog is looking really great in Firefox, it is looking pretty terrible in Internet Explorer.  I am not really sure what is causing the differences, but we are going to go throught it and do some trouble shooting in our class to see if we can fix it.

The problem seems to be in the theme.  However there is only one way to find that out and that is to go in and check the blog using new themes, or we could try something different.

Why do I think it is the theme?

Since starting this blog there have been several updates to Word Press.  This blog is heavily laden with plugins, too.  Perhaps the theme is no longer compatible with the new plugins.  There are several places to start and we can learn on each step.  It sounds tedious because it is, but we want our blogs to reflect on us.  We must take the time to go through the necessary steps to see if we can get the blog to show up great on both Internet Explorer and Firefox because they are the two most popular browers right now.

We have similiar blogs with the same template but we are not having the same trouble.  So is that a template problem or not?  That is what we are going to be figuring out in tonight’s blogging class starting at 8:30 Central time. 

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