In case you stumbled across this blog post or you returned from our last blog post,  welcome back!  Welcome back to BlogTalk.  Now, you might have a lot of questions about what is BlogTalk.  And that’s OK.  So, let’s begin…

Blogging is a new form of “social media” that has increased in amazing popularity in the last five years or so.  There are already over 113 million blogs in the world!  A blog is a “weblog,” a transaction of thoughts, opinions, exchanges of information as well as a journal put onto a website.  There are blogs about photography, politics, computers and many other subjects.  We’ve named ours BlogTalk because we want you to talk with us as we talk with you - only online.

BlogTalk is a communication vehicle.  If you think about it, newspaper articles, radio and TV commercials are one-sided.  With BlogTalk, we can communicate what is going on and then through our comments section below, you can then communicate back with us.  We’re all excited about this because there are many questions and many topics to be covered in a world where children have special needs.  Now WE can talk to whomever cares to participate.  Best of all, you can follow the conversation between Children’s Care and anyone who comments.  From time to time we may refer you to a topic or other site by using hyperlinks.  Hyperlinks are words that are underlined and when you click on them with your mouse, you are sent to another area of our website or perhaps a new website altogether.  For example, Wikipedia, an online library has a more definitive answer to what a blog is, so click on blog to find out what that looks like.BlogTalk will address medical issues from time to time and in those cases we will base our findings and research on evidence based medicine.  It’s how we approach our children and it’s how we’ll address things here as well.  

There’s even more to blogs than what was mentioned here, so in our next discussion, we’ll give you information about that funny orange button up above called an RSS Feed button.  It will make your following this blog a lot more helpful and allow you to join the conversation on an ongoing basis.  We look forward to your comments, so feel free to let us know your thoughts after reading this and what posts you’d like us to talk about in the future.  Click on the word “Comments” below to add your comments or view other comments.

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