Loading ...In this age of Facebook and Twitter, how do you feel about blogs? Some reports say that blogging is dead, but is it? According to Stoney deGeyter, the President of Pole Position Marketing, it is anything but dead.
He said, “It’s [Facebooking and Twittering] not going to overtake and kill blogging by any means because blogging is a way to tell a full and complete story.”
He compares updating Facebook statuses and Twittering in 140 characters or less to watching a movie in short clips. Through these channels, followers and friends can only receive choppy snippets. Blogs, however, provide comprehensive information.
The best solution is to use Facebook, Twitter, and blogs in a joint effort. He suggests using Facebook and Twitter to promote blog content.
As deGeyter points out, it is especially important for small businesses to utilize blogs. Since businesses sometimes make the mistake of using their blogs only for promotional purposes, deGeyter suggests they create personalized content in order to draw readers back again and again. Not only do blogs break down the corporate barrier, but they also open up new doors of communication.
So, is the age of blogging is over, or is it simply being enhanced by new platforms?
I agree that Blogging is far from dead. It should be used in conjunction with the other social media venues. The blog is what gets good content out there so that you get found in searches. I am to the point now where websites like they use to be are going away and that a Blog First mentality is where everything is heading. Today you can use a blog platform and have a CMS built in, but because it is a blogging tool first you benefit from the current content.
“The news about my death is greatly exaggerated.” As the previous post mentioned, a blog can get the same message to your audience much quicker, because search engines spider the blogs much more frequently. So if you have almost the same content on some blogs as on your website, with links from the blogs to the website, you can get your site content to show up in searches much faster. So blogs are far from dead – but the headline uses hyperbole to get your attention.
Blogging IS dead. And you know it. Say nite nite.
I think the same Kim.
Thanks.
Blogging is the mother of all web communications. Podcasting, vlogging and many other newer versions of communicating whose fundamental aspects and guidelines all root from blogging. Social media enhances it, people evolve and new platforms are coming up but that doesn’t mean the queen of all web communications is it. Sometimes it only evolves and may be known as other forms.
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