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eLearning Series:
Free Bloggers Guide
20 Pages
Follow
The Standard Rules
Blogs release
the voice of the readership by allowing experts in their
field to correct others, and be corrected themselves. With
so many participants, being dissimilar becomes difficult
and it becomes more difficult with a certain set of similar
rules.
Let us find out
what these rules are and how are these rules important for
success:
Time Is
Your Ace
Bloggers should
take care of the freshness of the content. Publishing the
content on time is the mantra. Bloggers may post a link to
the original news source and can convey the news hours before
established outlets can commit resources to their own rehash
and news top.
Share
The Credit
While traditional
media avoid reporting anything "not invented”, bloggers
should reveal the web's vast resources through compulsive
linking. Giving credit to the real authors should do this
linking to web resources.
Roll On
The Blogs
Bloggers should
weave new broadcast networks. In other words, bloggers should
regularly commend and link to other blogger's posts.
Chronology
To make room for
fresh arriving news most of the traditional publishers dump
their old product into search enabled database warehouses.
But a blog should be like a diary-like stack of events. Its
chronological news presentation should fit with innate human
story-telling or information-processing habits.
Site Construction
Do not over-engineer
and brand-bloat the site. Avoid heavy-handed attempts at
graphic branding that may generate more clutter and confusion
with poorly placed content. Highlight the urgency and directness
of the content. Make it more funny and insight-filled blog.
Reliability
Defeat the notion
that Blogs are unreliable. Writing only about the truth can
do this. Be accurate. Be consistent. Sometimes, blogs distill
a reality too fragmented for a person to comprehend, so avoid
breaking links and avoid directing people to sites where
they would not like to go.
Communication
Most human verbal
communication is not rocket science; it's sloppy, looping,
incoherent, and prolix. Blogs compare rather well to an older
and more widely used communications tool, talking. Advertising
in a blog will enable an advertiser to communicate with a
critical mass of thinkers.
Adhering
to Privacy Statement
People who report
the news should be aware of the consequences of abuse that
is inherent in the system. Handling privacy is not an easy
task. A blogger’s ethical standards are designed to delineate
the journalist's responsibilities and provide a clear code
of conduct that ensures the integrity of the news. The only
exception to this rule is when inadvertently personal information
about someone else is revealed. It is only fair to remove
the offending entry altogether, when you discover that you
have violated a confidence or made an acquaintance uncomfortable
by mentioning his or her name in your write-up. Also important
is that you remember that you have made a mistake and try
never to repeat that again.
A Touch
Of Human Interest
Blogs should provide
details from the writer's life: missed flights, break-ups,
and rodents under the stove, computer meltdowns, muggings,
and tamale recipes. These are the examples of what visitors
actually want to read.
Discover
The Passion Within
Blogs are mostly
written in the first person and can convey a blast of the
emotions. This emotional richness may consist of irony, elation,
bitterness, tears, laughter, profanity, boredom and compulsiveness.
Blogs should be written as human expressions rather than
corporate excretions.
Devotion
It should be remembered
that readers would reciprocate to all honest efforts. They
are equally devoted. If bloggers get to write about what
they care about at whatever length and in whatever detail
– they will write with far more commitment than the average
corporate scribe.
Conclusion
A widely dispersed
audience depends on weblogs for filtered and disseminated
information as it plays an important role positioned outside
the mainstream of mass media.
Professional bloggers
are experts in evaluating the nature of information sources;
it is not reasonable to assume that all readers can do the
same. Readers depend on the bloggers to provide them with
their knowledge share. Weblogs point to, comment on, and
spread information according to their own idiosyncratic perspective.
Readers accept all information provided to them via blogs
– all information – including articles from a source that
is a little wacky or has a strong agenda etc, but not an
unethical nature of source.
If it is felt
that a well-written article can stand on its own only with
ethically clear and relevant sources. Readers may cease to
trust a blog where disguised or unclear source of an article
is discovered. Making the sources clear or providing the
readers all the facts is important because it enables the
reader to avoid evaluating the facts differently. So, weblog’s
ethical standards are designed in way that delineates the
responsibilities of weblog professionals and provide a clear
code of conduct to ensure the integrity of the news.
 
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