Choosing a Template

     Greetings fellow bloggers! My name is Sarah Kawai and I am taking a class on using social media for business. This will be my first real experience with keeping a blog and hopefully will outline the things that I learn along the way. Our first assignment was to choose a template and explain our rational for our choice, so here goes....

      For now there isn't too much rhyme or reason for my choice of blog template. Since I'm not sure what purpose my blog will serve yet, I am hesitant to make it too stylized or complicated lest I decide to change it again once my vision becomes more clear. Therefore, I just used the "simple" template and chose the teal blue color spectrum because I personally like the color teal and I felt that it gave the blog a clean and easy to read feel. I feel like colors along the blue scale as well as simple font like "Arial"are reminiscent of Facebook's theme which I have always admired. I am holding off on adding any personal pictures besides the one that I am using for my profile, again, because I am not sure what goal I have for this blog yet.

     I am considering using this blog for a trial run of a blog for the Western United States Academic Community of the International Positive Psychology Association that I am helping to get started right now though. If that is the case, I will likely look into using our logo and a color scheme that is reminiscent of the one used by IPPA's (International Positive Psychology Assoc) main site. In that case, I will want to develop a more professional, academic feel for the blog, but how to do that, I am still not sure.

     From our reading I understand that it is important to let your own personality and authenticity come through. As I continue to post and work on this thing, I expect to find ways to incorporate more of my own flair, but in general I like to err on the conservative side when it comes to online stuff. I worry that you can always put things up, but never take them down. What do you think?