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The Death of Blogging: Part 271

Ari Herzog

It seems that every month there is a newspaper article about the death of blogging. Verne Kopytoff wrote a sensationalist headline in the New York Times in February 2011 entitled, “ Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” Why must headlines continue to be printed about the death of blogging?

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18 Lessons I’ve Learned about Blogging

ProBlogger

The post 18 Lessons I’ve Learned about Blogging appeared first on ProBlogger. In November 2002 I first heard the word blog after a mate e-mailed me a link and said I should consider starting one. Within 24 hours I’d created my first blog (a blogspot blog that doesn’t exist today).

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The Death of Blogging: Part 271

Ari Herzog

It seems that every month there is a newspaper article about the death of blogging. Verne Kopytoff wrote a sensationalist headline in the New York Times in February 2011 entitled, “ Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” Why must headlines continue to be printed about the death of blogging?

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What we can learn from blog firestorms.

Akamai Marketing

Its easy to imagine that the social sphere or your blog are simply just an adult playground of cool people. I’ve been watching closely as over the last couple of weeks two incidents on different blogs have caused an outright fury in the blogosphere, dividing a typically supportive group (bloggers) on different sides of the fence.

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To blog or not to blog – that is the question

Proactive Report

Some conflicting numbers showed up this week about blogs: The State of the Blogosphere from Technorati claims 70% of businesses are blogging. According to a recent analysis of websites and blogs by Percussion only 20.5% of mid market tech companies have an active blog. So are companies blogging or not?

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Personal vs Corporate Blogging

Kikolani

After reading the a guest blog post on Kikolani by Peter Garety , which discusses ways of overcoming discouragement in blogging , I couldn’t just move on with the days assignments without expressing some of my own take on the issue. When it Comes to Corporate Blogs. When it Comes to Corporate Blogs.

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10 Best Time Saving Apps and Plugins To Optimize Your Blog

Kikolani

Building a blog that matters is a full-time gig these days, especially if you want to stay ahead of close to 200 million other competing blogs – which you do, right? You need to be on you’re A-game all the time, and as a result it’s just too easy to get caught up doing ‘everything’ on your blog.

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