What is Blogging?

I shared from Scott Fox's 'e-Riches 2.0' what type of blog post generate the most traffic

If you’re not publishing blogs, you certainly should be reading them. There are millions of blogs covering every topic imaginable. There’s at least one (besides The Chester City Blog) that will appeal to you.

That was my basic message at the How to Blog seminar at Crozer Library last night.

The most frequent question I get is ‘What is Blogging’ and ‘Can you make money Blogging’. There are bloggers earning a nice income, but the seminar focused on the ‘What is’ question.

My simple answer is that a blog ‘Is a format for updating information & delivering it to an interactive Internet audience.'

A blog is a web page that hooks its readers on coming back often. A lot of companies have switched their home pages from traditional web pages to blog pages because of how dynamic and engaging a well designed blog page can be.

The Chester City Blog isn’t one of those magnificently custom designed blog sites, but I shared how most individual bloggers use free services to start their blogs and design their sites using free templates, as I did.

To get some idea where to find really good blogs, I directed them to:

delcotimes.com/blogs  (over 80 blogs from locals)

BlackWeblogAwards.com (a great source of professionally designed blogs by black publishers)

Essence.com (an excellent example of a company homepage being a blog)

TheRoot.com (another homepage as a blog)

Huffingtonpost.com (the queen of aggregate information)

Most blogs make it easy for you to subscribe. Once you find a blog you like, buy subscribing (or RSS-ing), the blog will come to you by way of email or posts that can be read through a ‘reader’. You can conveniently keep up with your favorite information on your computer or phone. 

The seminar was well received and I’ll probably do another real soon. I’m putting together a Part 2 which will discuss how to make money blogging.