Comments or No Comments That Is the Question – or Is It?
Apparently is there about once a year an omnipresent war on words going on about whether a blog that doesn’t allow comments is indeed a blog. As with most heated discussions is the interesting aspect not so much who is right or wrong, but what you can learn from it. The real substance lies in the middle so to speak. It is thus more interesting to look at why you would lean in one direction or the other as in which direction you are actually leaning. Matthew Ingram, one of the most prominent bloggers who was against calling a blog …
What “The 3 Little Pigs” Can Teach You About Blogging
You may think I am skating on even thinner ice than when I wrote The Albert Einstein Approach to Successful Blogging when saying that you can actually learn a great deal about blogging from reading fairy tales. Perhaps am I just obsessing, but I would claim that you indeed can learn something from practically everything you read regardless of the subject and the quality of writing as long as you read it with an open mind. If it is not on subject try transposing it and when it is of poor quality try to learn from the mistakes. If …
Conversation Agent Valeria Maltoni Connects Ideas and People
This second feature in my Recommended Reading Guest Series (see below) with connector and conversationalist par excellence Valeria Maltoni is something of a coincidence. Her blog Conversation Agent has been in my feed reader for some time and although I thoroughly enjoyed reading her writing that is as far as it went. Until she wrote about branding at The Blog Herald. Somehow we managed to connect in the comments despite the conversation getting off to a poor start with my less than positive comment, to put it diplomatically. The reason is Valeria, who I am sure would …
Blog Branding or There is More to Branding Than Marking Cows
In recent weeks branding have been a theme on a number of blogs. More of the blogs in my feed reader had posts about branding. To be honest am I not a big fan of the branding concept as such. I even learned about it when studying, but seem to have managed to forget almost everything about it. Thinking positively about a concept originally used to describe pressing a glowing hot piece of iron against the butt of a cow to determine ownership was just not happening. However since Chris Garrett actually managed to write a whole series of great …
Communicate Who You Are to Elevate Your Content and Make Connections
Although Circular Communication still is in it’s infancy have I already been blessed with a number of prominent visitors. Truth be told I (directly or indirectly) invited them to come and if I knew where to find you I may invite you to. One of the reasons I knew who to invite and how to invite them was that they write who they are and how to contact them on their blogs. Among them was Lorelle who when she visited luckily didn’t ask Who the Hell are you?, but instead struck up a conversation despite not knowing the first …
