Link Up and Have Fun With Glogster January 29, 2008

I just spent the last few minutes making a glog over at Glogster. I thought I would end up spending longer, but it’s pretty fast. The account took about a minute to set up, and then the page is super-quick to build. You can find mine by clicking on http://bloggrrl.glogster.com/glog.

I found some people over there who are very, very gifted. It is crazy that something so simple to use can produce things like this:

Glog by enysek

And this:

Glog by rainbowtear

Wow.

You can put pictures, videos, text bubbles, audio, graphics and backgrounds in your Glog. There is something else very special that you can put in it. You can put links to your blog in your pictures!!! Click on my photo of the Froot Loops and you’ll see what I mean. Cool. Since it is more of a social networking site than a graphics site, you can share your Glog (with link!) with lots of friends. Soon, you should have some new friends on your blog. I can see how “Glogging” could be the perfect complement to blogging…

Here’s how you start out. First of all, you register. As I said, this does not take long. Thankfully, the people who made the registration page aren’t interested in your address and what kind of deodorant you wear. Notice how there are iPods to be won…

Then, immediately after the confirmation email, you’re ready to create your own Glog. It’s pretty self-explanatory, and fun to play with.

Once you finish making your Glog, you can choose to make it public. Then it’s fun to go and browse the categories. Here are some. If you look closely, you can see mine under “WTF”?

You also have the option of viewing the most recent Glogs, the most popular (you can rank them), tags and people. It’s a very interactive site, and it is so much easier to integrate video and images into a cohesive page than any other application I’ve found.

So, go play!