Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

Revisiting Blogging Strategy Helps in Improving Quality

March 27th, 2010

Revisiting and examining pre-staged blogging strategy over past few days kept me a little more occupied. Simultaneously, I have been investing several hours in searching various write-ups on numerous websites and blogs. ”Blogging” is a well taken ‘niche’ and plethora of information is available online. For any keyword or a keyword phrase I found thousands of competing pages on all of the popular search engines. I generally prefer Google for my searches but ‘Bing’ is also coming up very fast and especially when it is corroborated with the ‘Yahoo Search’.

My search and looking for new ideas got me a little more puzzled. I initially thought and planned for writing blogging lessons and tutorials in a very different style so that newbies would be deriving more benefits. I have had my own experiences of learning by doing. This little break with searches have enabled me with even more interesting ideas and now I am planning to introduce them one by one .It may take a week or two to device a whole new blogging strategy for this site but in the end I am sure it will make everything more productive and advantageous for all my readers. » Read more: Revisiting Blogging Strategy Helps in Improving Quality

Creating A WordPress Blog

March 21st, 2010

Proficient Blogging Strategies

March 20th, 2010

A blog is a true reflection of its creator. It reflects the creator’s thoughts, vision, and communications, exposed to the entire world. Blog tells the whole story in itself. It really does not matter whether the blog is a ‘well organized blog’ or it is just a jumble of images and text imposed as mementos. It may be a well-designed, well conceptualized and well managed blog on one hand and on the other hand it may also be just a collection of links, advertisements, banners, and even some irrelevant text posts. 

Proficient blogging strategies help in making a blog successful and ensure its readers and visitors coming back regularly. There are umpteen of such strategies and have been proved extremely useful over a period. I am outlining some of these popular blogging strategies.

Keep the Blog Concurrent

A blog must be kept up-to-date and concurrent. All links should be properly placed and comfortably opening for the visitors otherwise the visitor will just move on. A neglected blog can never be a profitable or popular concept. Some of the best blogs are what Buzz Bruggeman describes as ‘intelligence agents’. These blogs have posts that would be of interest to their target audience. » Read more: Proficient Blogging Strategies

Interactive Blogging

March 18th, 2010

Beyond Business Blogging: Free eBook Released

March 16th, 2010

Business Blogging” is gaining exponential popularity across the globe.Blogs are fantastic inbound marketing tools to acquire new leads and prospects.

Email is just another fantastic tool to nurture and sustain these relationships.

This free complementary ebook will help you learn how marketers are combining these two tactics to not only acquire new leads but nurture them into closed business.

Statistics show that marketers using “corporate blogging” as part of their ‘social media’ mix improve search engine results and generate a higher volume of targeted leads, said Troy Burk, president of ROI(Right on Interactive). » Read more: Beyond Business Blogging: Free eBook Released

Scientists Attempt Blog Mining

March 14th, 2010

Technically speaking computers and search engine robots and crawlers cannot read and understand the words in blogs. However, scientists have started working in this direction and planning to perform “blog-mining” for “immediate information about every aspect of our lives and see in to out very souls”.

The Economist reports that, as part of efforts to help computers understand causality rather than just raw facts, a USC team are making them read and analyze blogs — which tend to be stories about what people have done, or intend to do, or personal thoughts. Eventually, they hope to come up with a system that can “gather aggregated statistics on a day-by-day basis about the personal lives of large populations.”

Don’t be surprised! Scientists believe that useful information can really be derived from the tedium of the blogosphere.

According to the Economist, “The web could be mined to track information about emerging trends and behaviors, covering everything from drug use or racial tension to interest in films or new products. The nature of blogging means that people are quick to comment on events in their daily lives. Mining this sort of information might therefore also reveal information about exactly how ideas are spread and trends are set”. » Read more: Scientists Attempt Blog Mining

Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings

March 11th, 2010

The ‘Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey” conducted by ‘Compendium’ has recently been concluded with interesting and trend-indicating results.

In all 226 companies (B2B and B2C companies) participated in this survey and shared their data relating to ‘blogging traffic’, ’visitor-trends’, and ‘twitter-usage’.

Results of this survey are enough to shake the common belief that “business blogs thrive on a core-group of loyal readers”. On the contrary, the first –timers were found to be the ‘key factor’ in increasing the blog traffic.

“As more traffic is being driven to corporate blogs through organic searches and more first-time visitors are landing on blogs, companies need to develop blog and social media content that is appropriate for this audience in order to be effective,” said Chris Baggott, CEO and co-founder of Compendium. » Read more: Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings

If You can Email You can Blog Too!

March 9th, 2010

Creating content for a blog as a “blog post” is not different from writing an email on any of the web based email platform like Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo. The web based mail services are available free as well as paid ones. However, I assume that you are well versed with writing emails on popular free web based email services like Gmail and Hotmail.

So what do you do when you write an email?

You simply “log in” or “sign in” with a chosen username and password. This entering leads you to a WYSIWYG editor with the help of a web browser. With the help of specified buttons you simply type text in to the box and then after putting in the email address you just press the send button and send it to the desired email address. » Read more: If You can Email You can Blog Too!

PubSubHubbub (PuSH) Returns !

March 8th, 2010

The tongue-twister “PubSubHubbub” drew my attention a few days back while I was surfing news. Call it “PuSH” for convenience as the WordPress says. I never knew of it as I was not in to blogging in the 90’s when it first arrived as “updates pushing service”. “PuSH” is back now (no idea, when did this vanish!).

WordPress.Com now supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH), a dedicated service that ‘pushes’ all the updates from all the wordpress blogs to the RSS Readers automatically. » Read more: PubSubHubbub (PuSH) Returns !

Blogging Helps Children Honing Writing Skills

March 5th, 2010

Blogging helps kids and children honing their writing abilities and skills. School curriculums now days focus on enhancing and upgrading student’s capabilities through writing in various forms.

Blogging is big motivation to write on any topic. Children may become proficient writers in a couple of years if they continue with blogging.

School-based writing programs are generally linear in approach and lack multiple dimensions while blogging brings in multi-faceted writing capabilities with all-round skills that help in overall personality development.

Blogging is a useful tool for fostering various types of intellectual exchanges and development of analytical and argumentative writing capabilities among the school children which will ultimately help them while studying at university levels. This fact has also been substantiated by the ‘Pew Internet and American Life Project’ recently. » Read more: Blogging Helps Children Honing Writing Skills

Blogs Act As ‘Anchors’ for Businesses

March 4th, 2010

Justin kistner, senior manager ‘Webtrends’, a social media marketing company explains “blogging” in an interesting way.

“Blogs act as ‘an anchor’ for a company’s social media presence”, says Justine Kistner.

Business blogs, company blogs, corporate blogs, or organization blogs register their presence as “profiles” on various social media channels. These profiles link back to the landing pages (blogs) from the sharing links in the social networking sites like ‘Facebook’ and micro-blogging services such as ‘Twitter’. » Read more: Blogs Act As ‘Anchors’ for Businesses

Develop Habit of Reading Blogs

February 27th, 2010

Have you ever read a blog?

I believe you must have if you surf the internet quite often. Many times when people do not know what is a blog exactly may not recollect but it is highly improbable that they haven’t seen or read a blog. In order to derive information on any particular topic or subject blogs prove to be of immense help. Thanks to all the “niche-bloggers” who perform this painstaking duty with all social responsibility.

Do you read any particular blog(s) regularly? Is it in your habit? » Read more: Develop Habit of Reading Blogs