Blogworking (a concatenation of 'Blogs' and 'Social Networking') is a mode of interactive online communication and personal publishing. It combines aspects of social and business networking with a system of collaborative blogs (weblogs), it resembles an online periodical or magazine whose function is to inform and influence a like-minded community. In summary, Blogworking combines private networking with group authorship and multi-lateral exchange of online journals or weblogs.

The word seems to have been popularized by weblog and social software expert Ross Mayfield, for a group weblog on social software called Many 2 Many.

http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/01/03/social_blogworking.php




Blogworking is a web application, which contains periodic time-stamped posts on a common webpage. They are also known simply as blogs. Blogworking can be an individual diary or a way to advertise or track political campaigns, corporations or a large community of writers. You can usually leave public comments and also a link back to your blog. This is common practice and aids in the creation of an interconnected blogosphere.

These online blogworking community pages and posts can consist of article summaries and opinions to simple bullet lists of hyperlinks to what the blogger is reading, watching and listening to. According to a recent study by Technorati, the number of blogs is now close to 8 million. Most people see their blogs as a form of self-expression but they often find they are learning as much as they are teaching, about themselves. You can find blogs that cover such differing subjects as knitting (with pictures and commentary on the evolving piece) to the medical world where a patient chronicles their pre and post surgical story.

Blgoworking is also a way for a budding writer to spread their wings and build a following. They can even publish their book through the Web and use chapter bits as their posts to entice their fans to buy it to read the whole thing.

Blogworking is for anyone who needs to maintain a web presence, but wants exacting control over their site, and powerful publishing features that cover everything from blogs to files. No technical skill is required. You provide the ideas..