Phi Theta Kappa - Honor Society

Using Blogging Software to Maintain Your Website

In case you're not a "web-master-rocket-scientist-eat-and-breathe-the-internet" type of person, we came up with a list of websites/software programs that can help you setup, maintain and advertise your chapter or region's website.

A weblog ('blog') is a website of an individual or group that uses a dated log format that is updated on a daily or very frequent basis.

Benefits for using blogging software to maintain your website:

  • It's quick and easy.
  • It's very easy to pass along the responsiblity of maintaining a blogged website.
  • The website can be maintained by as few or as many people as you like.
  • You don't have to be a designer to maintain a blog. Blogs generate content, and design is implemented seperately through a template. So with the change of a template, all of your blogged entries have an entirely new look.
  • Your blog creates a legacy of information - a history - for the chapter or region.

How can you utilize blogging software on your site?
  • Maintain current news or a schedule of current events.
  • Track progress on projects, like Honors Study or Service Projects.
  • Maintain your newsletter online.
  • With photos and personal accounts, make your website into a scrapbook for your chapter or region.
  • Create a private blog to track projects you might not want to share beyond the members of your chapter, or you can "advertise" and share your public blog with other chapters, your region, International Headquarters.
  • Many blogs come with the capability to generate RSS feeds, which can be used by other sites, including International, to showcase what your chapter or region is up to. They easily provide an exchange of information.
  • The possibilities are endless!

Some popular blogging sotware programs are listed below:

Further Reading about Blogs