Tag "blogs"
Journalism Knows Best: Words To Watch
Promote your blog The best bloggers are like the best writers anywhere and they will take suggestions and advice from anywhere they can get it. The other day I was looking through my books and came across an edition of a style book for newspapers that I used back in the early 1980s. A lot of the rules that applied then are still good foundations to know today. It’s important to remember that the business of writers is to say exactly what they mean, no ...
Continue readingCan Plato’s Forms add Wisdom to Blogging?
Blogging News While I participate in the alpha and beta testing for many web services, this is the first time I am writing about a pre-alpha product. However, I think that the concept behind Plato’s Forms could be key to the future of blogging. With so many blogs and so much misinformation in the wild, there is a need to create a venue for bloggers to communicate with the companies they are writing about. On three occasions, I have been asked by the ...
Continue readingWhat does the new cnn.com mean for blog design?
Blogging Usability and design testing can make a huge impact on any web site. But, if you run a blog or a small web site, the costs of wide scale usability and design testing is expensive. One of the best affordable ways to improve design is to learn from those organizations that have invested in large scale testing. Sites like Amazon, eBay and CNN are often imitated for that very reason. With CNN making a major update to their home page, it is ...
Continue reading500 years of Newspapers – How many years of blogs?
Blogging News While the blogging “industry” is still in it’s infancy, I wonder if the blogosphere will have the lifespan of a giant tortoise at close to 200 years in captivity or the less than a decade lifespan of the Betamax videocassette. Will blogs continue to evolve or will they one day follow the newspapers into the world of cold and harsh oblivion>? Let’s briefly consider the life spans of the newspaper and the blog to begin ...
Continue readingGoogle Blog Search
Search Engine Optimisation Last week Google updated its Blog Search adding a number of features such as “Hot Queries” and the ability to subscribe to any topic via RSS or Atom. Features like these have been in other Google services for quite some time which highlights Google’s Blog Search as a minor player in the Google universe. Following on the heels of Bing’s release without a dedicated blog search, which Jonathan Bailey ...
Continue readingShould Your Blog Have a Forum?
Blogging, Social Networking On some sites, blogs and forums seem to go hand in hand. For example, this site manages to have both a very active blog, complete with active coments, and a very active forum. Other well-known blogs, such as Smashing Magazine, also manage to pull it off as well. But is a forum right for you blog and what should you expect if you open one? I sat down with Patrick O’Keefe, the owner of the iFroggy network of sites and the author of the book ...
Continue readingTwitter Acceptance Good for Business Bloggers
Social Media, Social Networking If you blog for business purposes, then you’ve heard of the ways in which Twitter can help you either build your brand or help you redistribute your content in order to spread the message of your brand. And it looks like all the talk of Twitter being good for business was right. According to a recent survey by MarketingProfs, small business owners view Twitter as an important aspect of their company. Well, that’s fine for business ...
Continue readingBlog Profits via Self Promotion
Blogging If you’re a consultant, coach, creative professional or service provider of any kind, blogs are ideal tools to promote your services online. You can stay in contact with your clients, and new clients can find you via your blogs. Although you can create one do-it-all blog to promote yourself and your business, you’ll have better results if you create more than one blog. Web surfers are impatient – they demand relevancy, and if ...
Continue readingHow Blogs are Powerful Tools for Community Outreach
Blogging Blogs, by their nature, are community online tools, very similar to forums in that they allow easy interaction and communication between online users. Although forums are typically closed communities where discussion takes place within the community, blogs are more open; conversation takes place both on the blog and between websites. Members run the best forums, in that the editorial control of a forum is best left to the members of the forum. ...
Continue readingBlog What You Know – Blog Your Life
Blogging Most of the real blogs you create will be a marathon, rather than a sprint, because creating a popular high-traffic blog will take years, rather than months. (By “real” blogs I mean conventional blogs, which grow over time. A blog is just a Web site, so you can create blogs for any purpose – for a product launch, or an event, or as a sales tool for example.) Can you face creating content about your chosen topic for years? ...
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