The doomsayers are flat out wrong!
Social Media has become such a huge phenomenon, and many proclaimed that the rise of social media will kill blogging the way television killed the radio, or the Internet killed magazine, the newspaper, and what not. But, this time the doomsayers were flat out wrong.
Blogging did not go away, and social media didn’t become the blog-killer. It didn’t, and both co-existed amiably. What doomsayers forgot to realize that blog has a different purpose than social media. If I could draw a leaf from our life to understand what these people were saying then I will say if blogging is like the magazine you read then social media is akin to meeting you have with your friends, or may be a conference you attend.
How can a conference or friends’ gathering replace the need of magazines?
It cannot. Both are different. Rather the readership of magazine will increase because of word of mouth phenomena cutting loose during social gathering. And that is what has happened to blogging. Now more and more people are blogging on variety of different topics.
Social media has fueled the growth of blogging. Now more and more people are using their blogs to express themselves. Social media along with its status messages has brought writer out of every person. Earlier you couldn’t imaging people saying things that you see them writing on their Facebook walls.
Social media may be huge in its own right, but when it comes to blogging, even a force like Facebook is subservient to blogging. Facebook is used by the bloggers to promote them, and it doesn’t work in the opposite direction. Facebook, twitter, MySpace, and the rest have turned into mere tool for bloggers to promote themselves.
What do you think about this? Has social media become the force or will become the force that will take the place of blogging? Use the comment box below and write in.
Tags: bloggers, blogs, Doomsayers, Express, Facebook, Magazines, Myspace, People, Phenomena, Phenomenon, Radio, Readership, Saying Things, Social Media, Status Messages, Television, Variety, Word Of Mouth
A blog is considered a friend not only because it shares information with us, but because it shares it in a way that touches us personally. Like a friend, a good blog entertains us while telling us things that matter. It also cares for what we think and how we want it to behave with us. This is the theme for today’s post. Let’s begin exploring it.
Consistency is the key
Be consistent with what you write and what you support. Very few people can stand talking to a person who keeps on hopping from here to there, saying this and that, supporting him as well as him, and you will not like those very few people be part of your audience. Be consistence. Be true to your core, and say only what you mean.
Be the beacon and guide people
Do not hesitate in sharing your expertise with your audience. Share with them the knowledge you have acquired on the way to reaching here. They are going to like it. Write insightful posts, share things that matters to all. Be prolific. Write with grit. Write with gusto. Write for fun, and write to teach.
Picture gives the cue
Why a novel has a cover image or a blog post has a theme picture? Well to explain what the post is all about. Do not just use any picture, use the one that goes with the message you want to convey in the blog post. This will help you build rapport with your audience.
As they say it, picture speaks a thousand words.
I hope you have started to give shape to your blog in the light of what is being taught here. Share your link here, let’s see what you got. Waiting to hear from you.
Tags: Audience Share, blog, Consistence, Consistency, Cue, Face, Gusto, Image, Insightful Posts, Knowledge, Novel, People, Shape, Shares, Sharing Your Expertise, Things That Matter
Answering this question may be slightly difficult as I do not have access to comparative data, but if intuitive judgment could be believed in the answer will be yes. Because of the growing reach of high-speed Internet connection and penetration of portable video viewing devices that can access the Internet more and more people are consuming multimedia contents as against text contents.
Why is it so?
Because multimedia content can be consumed passively, but to understand the core any text content one need to be involved actively. Another reason is people understand the stuffs more when they hear or see compared to reading.
How can I say so?
If the comScore Video Metrix service data is any indicator of the pattern then you will be confident to know that in December 2009, 178 million Americans watched 33.2 billion online videos. Isn’t it a lot! Of which, Google sites alone accounted for 13.2 billion videos, which is 40% of total videos viewed on the net. And YouTube accounted for 99% of videos viewed on Google sites. At number two was Hulu with 1 billion video views, and Microsoft Sites placed itself on number three position with 561 million video views (1.7%). (See image for complete result).
Tags: 1 Billion, Comparative Data, google, High Speed Internet, High Speed Internet Connection, Internet Answering, Judgment, Love, Microsoft, Multimedia Content, Multimedia Contents, Online Videos, Penetration, People, Speed Internet Connection, Stuffs, Text Content, Text Contents, Total Net, Video Views
