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Q and A: How Can I Blog Better and Faster?

Posted by Tinu Abayomi-Paul on Nov 02 2006 | Increase Your Traffic with free traffic, blogging Tips

I wrote Blog About This to answer the first part of that question. Then the question was modified with the second part to help people learn to manage multiple blogs. I did a seminar turned video for this called The Art of Speed Blogging - a project I meant to finish last year, but just kept growing out of control.

From those two experiences, I found out the hard way that there isn't one quick answer to this question. But I do have a few tips.

You can:

* Blog Ahead - Have posts on standby in anticipation of busy times.
* Have Guest Bloggers or a Group Blog
* Blog Behind - Do a compliation post of links to articles you've written that are all on the same topic.
* Do Little Known News Coverage - People often read blogs to get insight they can't get elsewhere. You can do a quick update of things you're reading - online or offline - that are of interest to your readers.
* Get Voice recognition software - I use Dragon Naturally Speaking sometimes. You talk twice as fast as you type, and Dragon will produce for you at the speed of talk. The latest version worked pretty good for me out of box. But you'll have to train it a bit to recognize slang and technical terms.

I would suggest subscribing to Google Alerts (google.com/alerts) for specfic narrow search terms. You can select News, Blogs, Web, Groups, or Comprehensive. As well get can the frequency of when you receive the alerts. I usually go for once a day, but you get it in real time if you want to be ahead of other bloggers.

Article Link.
The Art of Flirting seen first at ThirdAge

by Winnipeg lawyer Brian Bowman

The Winnipeg Free Press Online Edition
(excerpt)

Most blogs are quite harmless. In fact, progressive businesses are embracing blogs as an effective means to communicate in an innovative and interactive way to targeted audiences.

It can be an inexpensive way to generate positive online chatter about a business.

This makes sense considering that people are reading blogs. Last year, Ipsos-Reid reported that four in 10 Canadians (42 per cent) have read a blog at least once.

Other blogs, however, can have deeply damaging impacts on affected individuals and businesses. That's because some bloggers use the online platform as a launching pad for virtual assaults against others.

Employers should be highly concerned about the blogging activities of employees. That's because employees who use blogs can, among other things, engage in copyright infringement and defamation.

Employees who write blogs in the course of their employment activities are easier to manage with company policies and procedures. Employees that write their own personal blogs, outside of work, can raise more challenging issues for employers.

Conclusion it seems to me-a professional blogger (I'm leaning to calling the role commentator or colour guy (a la sports) :  Employees from the ceo on downward should be encouraged to blog on behalf of the company so corporate standards can be imposed.  The company should also be active with various theme or lines of business blogs written by professional bloggers on contract or full time.

 Worth thinking about for present and future online communities

High and Low (or "How to love members... shall I count the ways?") - The Jason Calacanis Weblog

How do you show love in our world? Let me count the ways:

1. More disk space
2. Better screen real estate
3. Faster servers
4. Better editorial
5. More features
6. More support
7. Better design
8. Less ads
9. Less annoying ads
10. Less obnoxious ads
11. More targeted ads
12. Take that which is paid and make it free
13. Anticipate members needs and fill them
14. Surprise members with fun, new experiences
15. Communicate with members open and freely
16. Listen to members--then listen to them some more
17. Treat members how you would like to be treated
18. Be honest with members--always
19. Don't do anything sneaky because a) members are smart and will bust you, b) life is so short--why would you want to be a sneak?, and c) this is a long-term business, the short term is meaningless.
20. Respect your members wishes above all else. If they don't love you any more that is their choice, and it's an opportunity for you to reflect on why they don't love you (consider it a free focus group)
21. Let people consume your product on their terms with their software, browser, device, hardware or operating system (this is also known as the "don't be Microsoft rule").