The Art of Blogging: Tips & Stats

Presentation on the successful blogging

Recently I held an lecture for our international students about blogging as a phenomena. Blogging has silently grewn as a big business and since the emerging of the multi-author blogs in 2009, many of the major media sites of the Internet are actually blogs written by many people. Think for instance Technocrati, The Huffington Post, Ars Technica and many others. Also many of the solo bloggers have become world stars with their stories.

How did this happen? Is it really true that 10% of the bloggers receive their primary income by blogging? That might be one of the reason the blogging as a phenomena has exploded during the past couple of years.

The presentation below is an introduction to blogging. It's historym, different types of the blogging and foremost, how to create a successful blog. Most of the "how to make a great blog" -advices are made from an individual writer point of view. But I argue that is wrong.

When we examine the statistics, we should realise that collaboration is power. According the rough reading of Technocrati's statistics 10 out of the 10 most visited blogs in the world are multi author blogs. So, why not to collaborate and make success?

And remember. In order to reach the skies with your microblog entries, you have to become a celebrity first - but do not underestimate the power of Twitter in marketing of your blog posts.

And remember, the content is still the king.

More tips which I think are relevant to blogging in the presentation window below.

Some relevant links:
Technocrati TOP 100 blogs
Deep Space Sparkle -blog on the topic
11 Points on the topic
Writer's Digest - some do's and don'ts
- if you have your own links, please share in the comment field below


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