Monday, April 6, 2009

The Power of Blogging

By Harry Constantine

Apart from the chat rooms, IM tools and emails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the emerging innovations that help us build opportunities for interaction. The need for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological landscape of the web.

Blogs are the newest gift of Internet technology to people all over the world. These are updated posts, crop up entries or personalized life snippets, of mundane or bizarre in nature. For most, a blog is a personal, unedited, and authentic journal meant to be shared in an web community. Blog site is a place where users can publish anything; his thoughts, feelings, photos, special events, experiences, comments on issues and so on. It is more of an online diary with videos, links, documents, newsletters and opinions on just about any topics you are interested.

Web blogs are used to welcome the insights and opinions of all and therefore, should not be written to sound intimidating and too formal. This kind of blog is a sure way to put off the readers. In the basics of blogging, conversational tone would be more appropriate to reach the desired audience.

Blogging is all about people reaching out to other individuals. Having a blog has its own set of advantages:

Freedom of Expression. If you want people to hear you out and give their own opinion, creating a blog is the best way to create a line of communication;

Networking is at its best. Creating a blog is a good platform for exchanging genuine ideas from consumers to you as marketer of a certain product. Sound opinion and point of view is better than just showing the price quote;

Excellent advertising platform. Blogging is a new way to promote products, a refreshing change from the traditional advertising outlets and it is cost-effective.

Gauging public opinion on products and services. The key is nice and catchy titles with new ideas presented in your content. This is an assurance of quick and repeated responses from your readers. Blogs is an excellent spot for the exchange of ideas between the seller and the consumer. Good for measuring public opinion regarding services and products, even political and business matters alike.

Great tool for internal communication. This will help your business to build a knowledge-based community of employees. Also good for harnessing employee relations and identifying human resource issues in advance.

Other benefits like search engine optimization will help your blogs to be seen often by as many people as you wish. This is very good exposure for your products and services.

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