Blog 1: Successful Blog!

 

 

 

A blog is just a website to represent some information or share ideas with others (McAfee, 2006). Due to the revolution of the technology, the social media such as blogging has become one of the most ways to share opinions, ideas and daily events for Individuals based on their interests. Also, it can be used for marketing by many companies.

The purpose of blogging

Blogs have many purposes and uses. They can be used in the education sector, so teachers can use it in term of learning students, managing their activities, teach them how to comment and leave feedbacks, encourage them to share interests (Martin, 2013). Another use of blogging is marketing especially for small business which might help to build business models and communicate with others or take notes about some products. Additionally, blogs can be personally or individually to share information depending on hobbies or interests, such as politics, sport, economics, music or, etc.

How to create a successful blog?

-          Try to write a brief about yourself to start a relationship between the blogger and the readers. To define why you are blogging? What do you want from this blog? And what do you expect from the readers?

-          Choose a clear and a suitable title for the posts. Also, focus on one angel or topic.

-          Choose the platform or the design of the blog. Which means, keep it simple, professional and attractive. Use some images, bold fonts and any other formatting. The more useful content you have there, the better your chances of readers finding your blog.

-          Joining the blog to other communities, so it will be easy to share the content with others and this can lead to being active.

-          Respect others opinions and comments.

-          Using some resources if the blogger writes real stories or news.

-          Identify the target audience or the readers based on the age, education, interests, occupation or hobbies. Concentrating on a niche readers and enhancing proper content helps to ensure there will be strong interest in your blog's posts and makes promoting the blog easier (Entrepreneur, 2014).

Strategies for obtaining readership

The blogger or the writer should have writing skills which can make the posts interesting by using some examples. In addition, commenting on other blogs and post the link of your blog is a way to increase readers. Finally, try to be an active by responding to the readers.

To sum up, this is what the technology has given us by sharing our daily photos and events. We can communicate with each other via Facebook, Twitter, Wikis, Instagram, YouTube and Blogs such as Ask.

Thank you for reading, feel free to comment on my post.

References
Entrepreneur. (2014). 6 Strategies for Launching a Successful Blog. Retrieved from http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232478

Martin, A. (2013). How (And Why) Teachers Should Blog. Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/how-why-teachers-should-blog/

McAfee, A. P. (2006). Enterprise 2.0: The dawn of emergent collaboration. MIT Sloan Management Review, 47(3), 21-28. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/224963703?accountid=13380