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Geez. I Was Just Getting the Hang of Blogging…

Dan Romanchik — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:51:50 +0000

… and now there’s Twitter to contend with. “Predictions on How Twitter Will Change Blogs in 2009″ from Social Computing magazine examines this trend. Some interesting ideas here—including how to integrate tweets with blog postings. I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of this.

Build Your Blog Right, and Readers Will Come

Dan Romanchik — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:53:49 +0000

I’m a big advocate of blogging, but most blogs never seem to really take off. One reason for this, obviously, is that the blogger just lacks the commitment. But, even when there’s commitment, bloggers have trouble finding a groove.

One reason for this might be a lack of focus. Chris Brogan’s latest blog post, ”
Build Blog Posts Like Building Blocks” discusses this, and gives some good advice on building a solid foundation for one’s blog. I love this comment:

One focusing element I have that I try to practice all the time is: “will this help other people?”

If you focus on helping other people, then the readers will come.

Make Your Blog Stand Out

Dan Romanchik — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:56:47 +0000

ProBlogger is a great resource for serious bloggers. One of their latest articles, 13 Quick tips to Make Your Blog STAND OUT from the Crowd will help you get even more serious about blogging.

I especially like #13: Drive People to Your Archives. If you’re working hard to produce interesting and useful content, chances are that content will be useful and interesting a year or two years from now as well. On my ham radio blog, I always try to reference previous posts on a topic and build on that theme with the later posts. I think doingn this makes my blog even more useful and interesting.