Jun | 08 | 2007

Are Your Blog Visitors Too Lazy To Comment? Try ClickComments

Posted by Ia as Blogging Tools, Community Building Blogs are nothing without the communities surrounding them. Listing your blog in directories and other social sites, as well as linking and trackbacking to get noticed may be good and all, but without reader feedback in the form of comments, you're essentially talking to the wind. The good news is, it's not always your fault. A lot of people find the process of commenting cumbersome: having to register, leave sensitive information (such as one's email address), and come up with an original comment.

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May | 19 | 2007

PRESENCE is the new black

Posted by Jeff as Community Building, Linking, Opinion, Syndication To have the blogger's mindset is to analyze and think about the best ways to present, initiate and encourage discussion on ideas that may first appear as irrelevant together and not worth thinking over. In the months I started pushing web content, I unconsciously developed a rather anal-retentive process as to which ideas make their way into my writing - both offline and online - that involves going through three levels: micro-blogging (Twitter), something I'll call draft-blogging (Tumblr - then it becomes tumblelogging), and then there's the full-fledged personal blog. It's nice to leaves small traces of your celebrity ...

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Apr | 29 | 2007

Voices Carried Thru Blogging

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Opinion, Submissions, Terminology, Tips, Writing Blogging has been getting quite some attention lately and the bottom-line of it all is the fact that blogging holds a lot of what a person holds in his mind, mostly expressions he or she holds back most of the time. There is no question that most people hesitate to let their voices be heard, apparently being wary of possible violent reactions from people who know more about particular areas and do not accommodate any points that would not have sufficient claims. Blog Discussions

Blogs are not meant to replace the usual definitions and terminologies that all ...

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Apr | 24 | 2007

Image Relevance in Blog Posts

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Images, Promotion, Submissions, Templates, Terminology, Tips Bloggers can use any image of their liking to act as supporting designs for usual blogs that want to prove a point. Some insights may not be shared by other people, but from the viewpoint of one person alone, a broad image to support blog entries would need in-depth content meaning for the whole entry to be justified. Graphics Artist Blogger

Irrelevant images pointing towards the actual gist of a blog entry is something that may be risky. For one thing, not all people would understand the actual intent of the blogger. To some people, blogs ...

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Apr | 19 | 2007

Blog Freely, Blog Wisely

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Terminology, Tips, Writing Blog Freedom

There are no barriers towards blogging as we all know by now, but each person should know what they are talking about. While the freestyle of an approach may indeed be something for consideration, the fact remains that people blog to unwind and share opinions and views with other people for the sake of expanding issues on certain topics of interest. Blog do not have to be consistent. They are present for the sake of allowing people their own way of freedom of speech. This is something that allows them to voice out their concerns ...

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Mar | 25 | 2007

Using the Best Blog Post Excerpts

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Templates, Tips The front page representation of most blog sites would depend largely on the preference of the person in charge for the blog. In most cases, a few lines or excerpts from the actual blog entry would be used since people can get a good overview of what the entry is all about. For this manner of presentation, it would be best to start of with the actual juice of the blog entry to entice readers to read the whole entry. Blog Designer

There are also sites that aim to buckle down to business and have ...

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Mar | 05 | 2007

Blogging on Installments

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Opinion, Submissions, Syndication, Terminology, Tips, Writing Blogs were never known to be composed in lengthy proportions. They are tagged more as insights rather than informative reference posts. Bloggers would usually cut them into parts where a certain topic would be focused for some time, usually to help expound on a specific are of interest that would normally not be covered in one writing alone. piece by piece

Pressuring ones self to summarize a certain topic in one sitting since in most cases, this would usually turnout to be something useless since with a every blogger’s focus on making it ...

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Feb | 21 | 2007

One Point Of View Generates Blog Information

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Opinion, Tips, Writing If there is one unique thing about blogging, it is that of sharing views and opinions that will hold relevant and important information for the use of other people. While the usual references such as text books and general media will always be around to provide the basic and collected information from past events, the insights provided by people may very well find its ways towards the works of others, something that is not easily solicited today. Critical Thinking of Bloggers

Such a practice can be seen as a sort of domino effect in ...

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Feb | 19 | 2007

What Do Readers Expect from Blogs?

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging News, Community Building, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Marketing and Search Optimization, Opinion, Promotion, Submissions, Terminology, Tips, Writing Relevant information over the web will always be the first thing put into consideration when people need to gather data and pertinent information regarding a certain issue or subject matter. Rather than searching the usual newspapers and known reference materials such as the World Atlas and Encyclopedias, search queries over the web are preferred for the reason that they are updated and would eventually be pointed towards equivalent sources put up over the Internet. Readers

Technically, blogs are indirect gateways towards the reference sites. They are expanded explanations with author insights regarding subjects that include ...

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Jan | 28 | 2007

Learning from Blog Comments and Interaction

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Linking, Monetization, Spam, Tips Blogging is not mainly a one way stream of blurting out the things that go around in the mind of a person. It is also about inheriting various insights and ideas from another person’s point of view that may or may not share the same belief on certain areas for consideration. Again, most blogs rely on instinct and insights to which certain topics of interest may not be analyzed or viewed in the same manner that people would see it. Blog Comment Spamming

Some may consider blog comments as a form of spam. These are ...

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