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Blogging is a type of communications that can assist higher education instructors and their students using minimal resources. Creating a blog is very simple even for the most technically-challenged instructor. Creating blogs can be done without any cost using free blog sites and most have no software or system requirements. Blogs can be created with a number of different types of social websites, such as text-based, human network-based, photo-based, video-based, and bookmarking sites (Kim, 2007). According to Rogers (2003), “the compatibility is positively related to the technology adoption.” This indicates that if instructors indulge into a trend of using a number of social networking sites, both personally and professionally, it should migrate over to other professionals in the field Kim et al. Creating a blog is quick, simple, and free. A leading no-cost web blog site is www.wordpress.com. According to Wordpress (2010): You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address. You’ll get your own WordPress.com address (like you.wordpress.com, you can switch to a custom address later if you’d like), a selection of great free and customizable designs for your blog (we call them themes), 3 gigabytes of file storage (that’s about 2,500 pictures!) and all the other great features listed here. You can blog as much as you want for free. Over the years, the technology has evolved to be easier to use. There is no code or language to learn thanks to the modern day built-in editors (Kim, 2007), and the format has been enriched to allow graphics, photos, and other files. The usage of blogs has not quite caught on to all higher education instructors and institutions. A recent study suggests that a possible reason is that no one has created a suitable set of guidelines for educators to use that would be universal in design and work for all people, regardless of geographic location, culture, or ethnicity (Kim, 2007). The study suggests that more research is needed. The author chose this technological innovation, rather than podcasting or Etherpads, because modern-day blogging is very easy to use with minimal limitations of time and effort on the part of instructors and/or students.