NOT BASEBALL
I discovered today that it takes only a few seconds to set up a WordPress blog. I plan to use this for my course announcements next semester. I can still update on my smart phone when needed using the WordPress app.
Creating the site and entering a couple posts was done within a few minutes. Uploading a picture for the menu bar took a couple tries because the navigation for resizing the picture was having some flaky problems.
Adding links was easy- but there was no place to store documents so I am still using the public folder in Dropbox for that.
One advantage for the students is that their is a pull down menu that will allow them to look at messages that are only for their course. I will not have to battle the artificial 140 character limit either.
I’ll decide at the end of the semester whether I prefer this to Twitter for updating course announcements.
Baseball and Not Baseball 
I also reserved the domain name http://morford.info and used this in place of http://jeffmorford.wordpress.com. The instructions to do this through the WordPress dashboard were easy to follow.
I also see that using widgets that Word Press supplies it is easy for students to subscribe to a feed vis RSS, or email.
Finally, I reserved the domain name http://baseballandnotbaseball.com for this website through WordPress. It only cost slightly more than using an outside source and saved a step when making it point at this blog.
I think I will shut down both the twitter account and http://msumorfords.com before the end of the semester.