HW 13: Blogs changing businesses

After reading, “Blogs Will Change Your Business” by Stephen Baker and Heather Green (Kline and Burstein 221-223) it’s changed my view about the impact of blogging on business. I never knew that blogging has had such an impact on the world, and it’s industries. Businesses depend so much on blogs, it’s kind of disturbing. As mentioned in the chapter, “a young programmer named Mark Jen started blogging about his first days in the Googleplex.” Although he wasn’t “giving out inside dirt,” he talked about Google’s health plan and how it had a better plan than Microsoft. After two weeks, Jen was fired. This is an example of why I believe that blogging has an impact on business. Businesses depend so much on blogs, and what goes on. It’s a way to communicate with people all over the world. As stated in this chapter, “Most blogs are open to the world. As the bloggers read each other, comment, and link from one page to the next, they create a global conversation.” Blogs have made such a major impact on the world. Blogs are important because they have information, opinions, thoughts, comments, anything you want to write on them. They make businesses or they destroy them.