Blogging about Blogging

Blogging about Blogging

February 2nd, 2010 admin Edit No comments



Blogs and blogging have exploded all over the Internet. Most websites now have a blog. As more people sit home on their computers for work and pleasure, we have succeeded in creating an age of electric communications as well as electronic relationships. What a great time to be a business email marketer.



I came into the blogging world, a bit late. After creating some blogs of my own, I became curious about this phenomenon. I wanted to know more about blogging. Why do people blog? How many people are blogging? Is it beneficial and if so, how? So I started researching everything I could find on blogging. So here's the scoop.



How Many Bloggers are there?

According to an article in the NY Times: America's Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire, "The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income. That's almost 2 million Americans getting paid by the word, the post, or the click - whether on their site or someone else's"



Why do People Blog?

Blogging allows even the most insignificant topic to be "heard" in ways that were not possible before. Anyone and everyone have a voice in this technological age. At one time, not so long ago, you only read the opinions of those elite editors from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The everyday person, for the first time, has a vehicle for sharing their personal and unsubstantiated perspectives and ventilation about news, politics, sports, business, and so much more. We are all given our moment in the main stream media. Who could have ever imagined anything like this before?



Blogging creates community. Everyone has something to say. The freedom and ability to comment on someone's blog is one of its strongest attractions. You start a conversation and others join in. Before long, you are all talking to each other and not the commentator. Readers are free to agree or disagree, adding their own website links for marketing as well. The tone and path the blogs take, is solely in the hands of the Bloggers.



According to Wordpress.org, there are over 14 categories of Blogs.



Advantages of Blogs:



* Creative Inspiration: Reading what others have written about gives me ideas that I can build on.



* Keeping up with the latest events, technology, and social happenings



* Blogs can be entertaining



* See what your competitor is writing about



* What is going on in your market niche



Disadvantages of Blogs?



* They can be addictive and time consuming



* You can feel compelled to read them all.



* Whose opinions are accurate?



* How many blogs do you have to read to obtain all the facts about a subject or statement?



Blogging and Safety

The Internet has given us a false sense of safety. For whatever reason, people click on links, enter personal information, answer questions and never think about it. So I ask you, what about privacy? The best way to blog and still preserve some privacy is to do it anonymously using a pseudonym. For more details, please read: How to blog safely across the world.



Whatever your reason for blogging, strive to be accurate and positive. Inspire and inform your readers. And by the way, Happy Blogging.