Starting a Blog

Are you planning a blog that give readers full access to your profile? While professional and corporate blogs contain a clear identity of the owner and bloggers, many personal blogs are anonymously authored.

EFF offers a nice article on the subject providing some considerations and tips.

“anyone can eventually find your blog if your real identity is tied to it in some way…”

Now for the serious blog startup owners you’ll want to read posts from Daily Blog Tips. Daniel Scocco provides an excellent series of posts on the subject. The section is laid out in the same method you’d write a business plan. Read the rest of this entry »

With the many blogging tools and solutions available today it’s no surprise that there is a massive explosion of new blogs. Blogs that see their 1st year birthday and are still actively maintained by their author are a limited few of these daily starts. Even experienced writers starting a blog usually take a few re-starts during the blog setup and testing period. Perhaps it’s getting comfortable with the content and picking a topic that allows for more than a few posts before the author has used the blog as their own release of thoughts and comments. Perhaps new authors find themselves with a case of writers block or just find it’s not convenient to find a moment to blog after the first few posts…

Today, blogging can be serious business for any small to mid-size company. It’s an opportunity to inform the public or your customers about the interesting items you might learn from your favorite customer service representative or sales person. It can also be a simple way to publish news in a formal or informal manner.

Are you,

• blogging for you?
• blogging for others?
• blogging for a company objective?

Learning how to blog is probably more of an art than science but there are some important considerations to keep in mind before you become a publisher. Everything you write is public and becomes open to discussion or review in any other place on the Internet. Don’t assume your small blog will never get noticed. If having a popular blog with many visitors and readers is not your intention then pick another outlet for your communication, thoughts, or ideas.

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