Moving Day: From Blogger to Edublogs

Posted by: Cory Plough | April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment |

About two weeks ago I decided to ditch my personal blog on Blogger and switch to either Wordpress or Edublogs. I was having trouble with Blogger talking to Technorati, didn’t like the RSS Comments feed I had to settle on, and wanted more out of page functionality. Bye bye Blogger (sorry Google, feel bad having to ditch one of your boys).

I had already set up an Edublogs account that I am going to use with my Web 2.0 students next semester but wasn’t totally sold on it as the platform I wanted for my own personal use. I didn’t like the template options and found it rather slow on some occasions (probably my less than quality computers that caused that but who knows for sure).

I went through the process of importing The Next Step from Blogger into both Wordpress and here, and then compared. Wordpress offered the option of hosting on my own domain which I’m not sure I can tackle just yet, but besides that and cooler templates, I really liked this platform more. I had trouble embedding html codes into Wordpress and getting them to show up clean (see My Networks widget on the right). Plus Edublogs comes with Sue Waters’ Edublog and Twitter updates which you can’t beat.

I still have a few things more to get this looking like I want, including trying to find an Edublogs Plugin for Technorati Tags, but moving day is now official.

Technorati Profile

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Welcome to Edublogs. Sorry I wasn’t able to check out sooner but limited Internet access on my vacation hampered web access. Glad that Edublogs features like The Edublogger and Edublogs twitter account are features you like. I know many of my followers on twitter love the fact they can ask me a quick question when they get stuck.

Now I’m personally not a fan of technorati tags in posts — if that is what you mean and I’ve been meaning to write a post to explain my position on it. In simple terms technorati searches for the search terms within your post so provided you include the search term and any alternatives (e.g. mlearning, mobile learning, mobile technologies) technorati will find your post no problems.

With Tags on Edublogs you can include spaces between the words as each different tag is separated by commas.

By: Sue Waters on April 20, 2008
at 9:13 pm