For anyone who chooses to read this blog, congratulations. You made the right choice. My name is Joshua Steele, i'm a Western Washington University student (scholar), and I am currently enrolled in the Emerging Communication Technologies class. For this particular blog posting, I will get you all LEARNED about personal blogging, branding, and a popular editing program, Photoshop.

        First, blogging. Blogging is basically expressing your interests to people on an online social platform. Also, viewing others ideas and interests also plays a large part in the blogging process. With this particular blogging platform, Blogger (how creative), you are able to communicate your ideas widely to other Blogger users, and anyone who wants to view your page. Blogging is pretty simple, just find a blogging site and start writing about... well basically whatever you want. You can also attach videos and other graphics to your posts.

Here are some links that can help you learn about blogging as well as Photoshop.

http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/how-do-i-start-a-blog/
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html

Second on the agenda, personal branding. I do not really know much about personal branding other than what I have learned in this class, but it is basically creating an image for yourself that can help you convey ideas, or your own personality, to others. A good example of personal branding would be Jordan, or Lance Armstrongs' LiveStrong foundation and brand.

Last on the list, Photoshop. Photoshop is a pretty cool tool that allows you to perform a variety of manipulations on images, and even create your own. I was able to create my own logo using Photoshop, which is pretty awesome! I am still learning about it, but i'm definitely getting more acquainted with the tools within Photoshop. Above is a helpful (and extremely long) video to help beginners get started.






That's all I have on these topics for today, but stay tuned for future posts!