The essence of any blog is the content. Content is KING. Always remember that. However, when it comes to blog content there is an additional and very important element and that is "conversation".

There are "rules" to blog writing so let's discuss how to write a blog.

Rule 1. It's Nothing Personal, It's Just Business...Or Is It?
Is your blog a personal blog or a business blog. Clearly identifying which and delineating that in your mind will help you writing effecting for your blog. You can be a business writing and personal blog or and individual writing a business blog. There are implications for each one.

Implications for a Business Blog. A business blog will be held to a higher standard of integrity and reputation because of it's overall obligation to the public trust as an enterprise. Any busy business that ...   more »

How To Podcast with BlogHarbor

In this tutorial I will show you how to quickly get started with publishing your own Podcast with BlogHarbor. The quality of your podcast will depend on the quality of your podcast tools and podcast equipment.

Podcast Primer
Podcasting is the activity of creating time shifted audio for the Internet. Using a assortment of software and optional hardware you "record and store" audio programs for broadcasting over the Internet using RSS.

A common yet very accurate analogy for describing how a podcast works is by using Tivo. Tivo is a device and service that allows you record programs and then watch them at a time that is convenient for you. With Tivo you don't have to worry rushing home to watch that favorite program of yours. You simply tell Tivo what you want ...   more »

I'm a little behind in publishing my Blogging 101 series. I'm an IT Systems Engineer by day and the end of the year is a very, very busy time of year for my company believe it or not. It's been eating into my publishing schedule the last few days.

So I will pick up the series in several more hours yet but it's coming. My series has been well recieved and I appreciate everyone's interest and support!

There a lot more how to blogging stuff the come!

In the mean time I thought I'd jot down some basics as a recap for newbies while following shortly with the How To Blog 101 series How To Blog 105 on Blog Promotion and How To Blog 106 Blogging For A Living.

Enjoy!

Well, let me start by saying that blogging is "HOT" ...   more »

How Blogs Can Supercharge Your Business

Blogs in business is a new idea and a strategy that is evolving very quickly. There many new products and services emerging to service everyone interesting in blogs and blogging. While there are new opportunities being created because of blogs, small and large businesses as well as solo entrepreneurs are deeply interested how blogs can help their bottom line as well. Blogs were once thought to be the domain of computer geeks and teens interested in publishing their personal ideas, poetry, commentary and the like. Blogs are no longer "personal" publishing tools anymore.

Blogs are now business publishing tools and powerful ones at that. You learned in Lesson One that blogs allow you publish quickly, easily, efficiently and instantly. This has transformed business communications online. Now all companies large and small can create a ...   more »

In the continuing quest to distill a concise definition of a blog into something easy to remember and identify I cam across this entry. I think I will adopt this one and modify just a wee bit.

Dana Blankenhorn provides this simple definition over at Corante.com:

"Blogs are instant publishing"

How about that? Simple isn't it? I think of most challenging reasons for defining what a blog is comes from also trying to at the same time define what a blog does in the way that blogs do what they do.

At the end of the day a blog is indeed instant publishing. It is the benefit of publishing with blog that is so interesting and exciting and to which this blog itself is dedicated to documenting.

Read more about "What Blogs Are".
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T. L. Pakii Pierce   more »