This presentation was prepared for one of the "Supporting the Challenge" workshops at the Flat Connections Conference in Sydney 2014. It was bootcamp style and covered some of the following:- Why blog? Where should we start with blogging? What are the necessary features of effective blogs for global understanding. Take a look at the need for categories, tags, images, videos and other media. What are some widgets that help empower global learning? Take a look at translate widgets, clocks, weather, badges etc