I’ve been a fan of WordPress, the open-source free blogging tool ever since I started using it earlier in 2006.  If you’re thinking about setting up your own blog, or moving to a new one, I can’t say enough about WordPress.

What I really like most about WordPress is that, once you’ve set it up, it is just so eazy-peezy intuitive and fun to use.  It’s great for non-technical types, although there are a lot of custom tools you can use or add to a WordPress blog later on once you become more comfortable with it.  (Full confession:  I just call my techno-pal, Eldon Sarte, to give me a boost from time to time.)

Very bottom line?  WordPress is a Top5er.

I remember in the early 1980s when I moved from an IBM Selectric typewriter to my first computer (an Osborne II — great little machine in its own right, and from the company of the same name founded by Adam Osborne, one of the true luminaries in the early PC days — just loved the guy — funny, brash, innovative) and how I knew then and there that my work life had changed forever.

That same feeling came over me when I first started blogging with WordPress — I knew that my work life had changed.

Word Press has allowed me to become a very active and creative participant in the online and Web worlds without having to learn all sorts of new technologies.  (Yup, I do run technology companies, but because I’ve been managing people and operations for the last 20 years or so, my tech IQ stopped growing with the last version of DOS.  Really.)

So, check out WordPress.

And, along the way, check out a few free overview WordPress tutorials at Learnerblogs.org, a neat-o organization in its own right that supplies free WordPress blogs for teachers, students, writers, and other education-oriented souls.

Good stuff, check ‘er out.

 

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