Microblogging – what is it really all about?

Microblogging – what is it really all about?

The best known microblog is Twitter, but there are others such as identi.ca. and jaiku. If ‘blog’ is short for web log, then a microblog is a very short web log. Twitter launched itself based on asking people to answer the question ‘what are you...
Microblogging – what is it really all about?

Spreading the word

We’ve already talked about posting your blog content in more than one place, but there’s another way to get your words in front of a wider audience. This is about placing the link to your blog in as many places as possible. There are a couple of tools that...
Microblogging – what is it really all about?

Creating consistent blogs

Many people say to me ‘I won’t be able to keep coming up with good content for my blogs’, it’s a perpetual challenge! However, there are a few tricks to generating good content. The first one is to have a dedicated brainstorming session. Get a...
Microblogging – what is it really all about?

Making one blog go further!

When you’ve written a good blog and posted it on your own blog – is that it? As the daughter of a thrifty Yorkshirewoman, I know how to make a little go a long way so I use one blog for many things. This isn’t the only way to do this, but it is a...
Microblogging – what is it really all about?

Thoughts on blogging

What is a blog? Well, it all started out as an online journal – think Star Trek ‘Captain’s log, stardate June 21st 2315’. Online logs were called ‘web logs’, shortened to ‘blogs’ and that kicked off something that...
Microblogging – what is it really all about?

Do it now!

Do you know what you want people to do when they’ve looked at each page on your website? Every page should have a purpose, whether that’s to send the reader to another page with more information or to contact you by phone or email, or fill in a form,...