We have been building agri-tourism farm websites with blogs attached/integrated, so farmers can get into the site and update things themselves. It’s easy — if they can type an email, they can usually fill a blog with lots of good information.
Many ‘geek’ types are actually turning to blogs as the means to have a quick/easy, content-rich website. I found one USGenWeb state site that is a blog (and I can’t remember which!) and several county sites that are also.
Wikipedia has this to say about blogs:
"A blog (short for web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and displayed in reverse chronological order.
Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media.
The term "blog" is a portmanteau of the words web and log (Web log). "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog."
Blogs can be installed on your server (if you have MySQL and PHP) and configured with your own artwork and/or style sheet. In other words, you can really personalize them. They have built-in search features, archives, and calendar. You can set your blog to "transmit only" — which means that only YOU will be able to enter information. Or you can set it to allow comments, moderated or not, from registered users and/or viewers.
The GAGenWeb project blog is powered by Word Press — and we thank Roger Nalls (Tift County) for installing it on theGAProject.org website! You can find out more about them at www.WordPress.org