How can Blogging help students and budding professionals?

To see how blogging can be beneficial for students and professionals, let’s see what blogging is basically and how this phenomenon has evolved. A Blog is a user generated webpage, which may have link to other web pages or a complete website in itself and may contain text, images, videos etc. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

Now lets see whether blogging can help student community in any way or not. Many students think that blogging is a complicated, but once they start using it, it’s like a push button thing. During student life especially in technical field, students often carry out research and development kind of work, but fail to document their work.
Firstly, Blogging provides a alternative to such students, it can be greatly used as a knowledge management tool where a student can keep his data, keep it on a medium where everyone can read it, comment on it, and even inter link to other pages.
Secondly, blogs can be used as a personal image builder both by students and budding professional community. They can discuss various issues they come across in their professional life, ask people for their comments, help or can take cue from other people’s blogs. Both students and professionals can put forward their strong points which help them present their true picture in front of world and others can notice them. This can help them in their growth in terms of their academics, their careers as many a big employers often at the time of interviews search people’s names on popular search engines and blog sites, so it is better to blog for that purpose too.
Thirdly, potential of blogging in the field of education is enormous. Student community and professionals can put their work on daily, weekly or monthly bases into their blogs where other can keep themselves updated with the current works done in the relevant field. One such step is already been carried out at University of California at Berkley, which introduced weblogging as part of its curriculum for their new media course.

In a way Blogging can be used by both the student and professional community as a way of organizing their thought process. I personally use blogging as a personal image builder and discussion forum where I talk about issues relevant in our daily lives, things out there which exist and impact our lives in tremendous ways, but still no one bothers about them much. I personally find blogging to be extremely useful not just as a personal website or a publishing kind of thing, but in building a a well networked community of people. I have personally met many a like minded peoples and shared our experiences with them. Apart from these above mentioned benefits and usages there are many simple but useful plus points about blogging, like command in written English (a common problem with many a Indian students and professionals), by means of images and videos to share your passions, your lifestyles and give an feeling of owning a personal space on the World Wide Web.