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eLearning Series: Blogging
Free Bloggers Guide
( 20 Pages )
Publishing Your Blog
Blogging today
has become a popular surrogate venue that offers voice and
platform to common people. Uncensored information, unmediated
conversation and uncontrolled voice are considered to be
its greatest strength. Also, the absence of gatekeepers and
the freedom from all consequences compromises their integrity
and thus their value.
We have entered
an era vibrating with the din of small voices. The newest
and most rapidly developing Internet phenomenon is the Weblog.
It is hard to differ that Blog are better, faster and cheaper
than the "old" media. Today, the blog battle is
not just between amateurs and professionals; it is also between
entrepreneurs and news organizations.
Weblog’s combination
of instantaneous comment, links to breaking news stories,
and links to other blogs and their sources permits a very
rapid and fluid means of following and understanding events.
Particularly useful is the ability of bloggers to check and
fact-find on articles in the mainstream press, and particularly
to pick apart and quickly expose errors by mainstream pundits,
broadcast reporters and other sources.
People have been
maintaining blogs for long, but it gained momentum with the
introduction of automated published systems that simplified
and accelerated the publishing process.
Making Your Presence Felt
With so many amateurs
and professional writers who write compelling and useful
pieces, blogs enable new idea entrepreneurs to explore their
conceptual niches. To make a compelling presence on the web,
bloggers should be able to identify what’s hot and what’s
not. They should be able to capture new idea floating in
the web-space and should think of ways of its best utility.
In other words, bloggers can build their online presence
by delivering high in demand information.
Bloggers should ensure that a blog as a diary of events should capture things
missed by the computerized information-sorting schema. It should present it
as a record of the events as they happened.
To ensure a compelling
web presence the design of the website should also be considered,
as the look and feel of the site also attracts visitors to
the site. The site design of a blog should reflect the tastes
of the users rather than the designers. It should be user
friendly and should have the context and interactive features.
To have a constant online presence a blogger should
not:
• Write entries
to just please readers or advertisers
• Post entries
for the sake of posting or to get paid
• Ignore checking
facts while pushing things in under deadlines
• Create a situation
that leads to conflicts of interest
• Disclose who
is paying and why
For an effective
online presence advertisements can play a major role. Advertisers
can reward Bloggers who inspire large or passionate audiences.
Advertisements establish a clear space and format on the
site. It also enables blog readers to buy goods and services
from companies or individuals who appreciate blogs, who support
their beliefs. Moreover, ads are themselves interesting to
read.
The Strategies For Success
For the last half-century,
we are slowly evolving our habits, expectations, businesses,
life-styles, needs, social interactions and self-conceptions
to catch up with the computer revolution. Society is still
learning to express itself within and through the new tools.
The "blog" is more than the sum of its conceptual
constituents. It is a tool that enables people with different
tastes to come together and explore the creativity within
them. Blogs give them voice to their views and expression
that craves an outlet. These expressions of free emotions
enable a blogger and his or her readers to typically be "early
adopters" or “trendsetters” and “opinion leaders”.
Blogging has taken
off in a remarkable fashion. Weblogs run from single person
operation to large communities spread throughout the world.
Besides offering a great way for readers to constantly find
updated news and information, it also allows authors to connect
to thousands of readers in a personal way. The plethora of
tools available today has helped the weblog to publish posts
to a great extent. These are probably the reasons why they
have been widely adopted and maintained - for several years
in some cases.
Blogs have never
seen so much of growth as it is the case today. The competition
is high and the benchmarks aren’t what it should be. In such
as a scenario, it is important to define and follow strategies
that could pave your way to success. This section of the
unit will identify and discuss such strategies.
 
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