Comments on: Blogging FAQs http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/ Why do you blog? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Faris http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-44 Faris Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:03:51 +0000 http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-44 What's your blog about? What do you blog for? How much traffic do you get? Do you think of yourself as a blogger? What’s your blog about?

What do you blog for?

How much traffic do you get?

Do you think of yourself as a blogger?

]]> By: Drew Neisser http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-39 Drew Neisser Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:41:11 +0000 http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-39 Leah--I've been blogging for about 18 months and started with help from your brother Noah. My initial motivation was to aggregate examples of Marketing for Good and be a voice in the industry for doing well by doing good. As the CEO of Renegade(www.renegade.com), I also felt it was part of my job to have a strong point of view and voice it often. After posting 150 examples in under six months I started to feel restrained by the subject and ready to expand my purview. However, I didn't actually get there until recently when I launched TheDrewBlog.com, which covers Marketing for Good, a related philosophical approach called Marketing as Service and general Musings which allowed me the freedom to write random thoughts at will. I'm really enjoying blogging again and hope my readers (all three of them;-) are as well. As for questions, I frankly don't get very many. Mainly, I hear from people when I run a silly contest or take a strong point of view AND someone (or a company) thinks I'm way off base. Lastly, I'm fascinated by your project and hope you will come visit us at Renegade--maybe we'll have a job for you. Cheers, Drew Leah–I’ve been blogging for about 18 months and started with help from your brother Noah. My initial motivation was to aggregate examples of Marketing for Good and be a voice in the industry for doing well by doing good. As the CEO of Renegade(www.renegade.com), I also felt it was part of my job to have a strong point of view and voice it often. After posting 150 examples in under six months I started to feel restrained by the subject and ready to expand my purview. However, I didn’t actually get there until recently when I launched TheDrewBlog.com, which covers Marketing for Good, a related philosophical approach called Marketing as Service and general Musings which allowed me the freedom to write random thoughts at will. I’m really enjoying blogging again and hope my readers (all three of them;-) are as well. As for questions, I frankly don’t get very many. Mainly, I hear from people when I run a silly contest or take a strong point of view AND someone (or a company) thinks I’m way off base.
Lastly, I’m fascinated by your project and hope you will come visit us at Renegade–maybe we’ll have a job for you.
Cheers,
Drew

]]> By: leah http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-38 leah Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:56:37 +0000 http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-38 THIS IS FROM NOAH (noahbrier.com) Okay, let me do this again, since I accidently just deleted the entire comment I wrote . . . - Do you make money off your blog? - What is the ROI of blogging? (this is mostly a business question, but one I hear quite a bit) - How do you find time to blog? - What should I (questioner) blog about? - How long have you had your blog? - Isn’t it weird that people you don’t know know so much about you? - Does your company/boss know you have a blog? Are they okay with it? - Should I start a blog? (The answer is usually, “depends, do you want to start a blog?”) Questions I think are key: - What do you get out of blogging? (which is quite close to your “why you blog” question) Will keep thinking about it . . . THIS IS FROM NOAH (noahbrier.com)

Okay, let me do this again, since I accidently just deleted the entire comment I wrote . . .

- Do you make money off your blog?
- What is the ROI of blogging? (this is mostly a business question, but one I hear quite a bit)
- How do you find time to blog?
- What should I (questioner) blog about?
- How long have you had your blog?
- Isn’t it weird that people you don’t know know so much about you?
- Does your company/boss know you have a blog? Are they okay with it?
- Should I start a blog? (The answer is usually, “depends, do you want to start a blog?”)

Questions I think are key:
- What do you get out of blogging? (which is quite close to your “why you blog” question)

Will keep thinking about it . . .

]]> By: leah http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-36 leah Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:40:56 +0000 http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-36 THIS IS FROM DAVID (marketersstudio.com) * What do you do if you want to start a blog? * What's the difference between blogging platforms? * What's corporate blogging? What businesses blog and why? * If you have a business blog, what are the pros and cons of enabling comments? * How do you respond when people say negative things about you or your business on their blog? * What's a blog again? * How do you have time for blogging? * How do you promote your blog? * What value do you get out of blogging? * How do you make money off your blog? * How do you manage reading all those blogs out there? THIS IS FROM DAVID (marketersstudio.com)

* What do you do if you want to start a blog?
* What’s the difference between blogging platforms?
* What’s corporate blogging? What businesses blog and why?
* If you have a business blog, what are the pros and cons of enabling comments?
* How do you respond when people say negative things about you or your business on their blog?
* What’s a blog again?
* How do you have time for blogging?
* How do you promote your blog?
* What value do you get out of blogging?
* How do you make money off your blog?
* How do you manage reading all those blogs out there?

]]> By: leah http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-35 leah Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:39:20 +0000 http://www.whyyoublog.com/2008/blogging-faqs/#comment-35 THIS IS FROM BONNIE. THANK YOU BONNIE FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP! Happy to help :) We recently created a blog for my work and my boss who is a very young 69 had a hard time understanding the need for a blog as opposed to our "newsletter" that is emailed out to our clients every couple months. We often have questions on our newsletter that we hope clients will send their responses via email back to me. My boss also participates in message boards dealing with Organizational Development. Theses are some of the questions that were asked of me during my push to get a blog in place. What is the difference between a blog and a newsletter? People still read the same articles and respond.... How does my blog get out to the public? What makes a blog different than a message board? What makes a blog interactive? How do I regulate what people say and do on my blog? How can I bring together groups from similar industries with my blog? How do I create the perfect entry to unite all groups together? What if no one reads my blog? These are some of the questions that were asked of me, but some of the questions I ask of others and myself are Are blogs free from barriers imposed by race, SES, and gender? Can blogs be truly neutral spaces? How can I use blogging in my own dissertation- a critical analysis of UNESCO educational policies in Sub Saharan Africa? Can we create a hybrid blog like noah does that people who blog actually meet once a month? How does the blogging change once you are made "public?" I hope this helps Leah. I often look at blogging in terms of creating the conversation for my work, professionally and socially. I can participate in conversations that help me bounce ideas off unknown people and open my mind up to new alternatives. My research looks at Sub Saharan West Africa and educational policy imposed on them through UNESCO. These children are participants in the One Laptop per Child program and there is a blogging feature available on it. How can this create tranformatory dialogue? How can blogs be tools of anti-bias and anti-racist education? These are my personal questions I ask myself. If you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask and hope this is what you were looking for, Bonnie THIS IS FROM BONNIE. THANK YOU BONNIE FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!

Happy to help :)
We recently created a blog for my work and my boss who is a very young 69 had a hard time understanding the need for a blog as opposed to our “newsletter” that is emailed out to our clients every couple months. We often have questions on our newsletter that we hope clients will send their responses via email back to me. My boss also participates in message boards dealing with Organizational Development. Theses are some of the questions that were asked of me during my push to get a blog in place.

What is the difference between a blog and a newsletter? People still read the same articles and respond….

How does my blog get out to the public?

What makes a blog different than a message board?

What makes a blog interactive?
How do I regulate what people say and do on my blog?

How can I bring together groups from similar industries with my blog? How do I create the perfect entry to unite all groups together?

What if no one reads my blog?

These are some of the questions that were asked of me, but some of the questions I ask of others and myself are

Are blogs free from barriers imposed by race, SES, and gender?

Can blogs be truly neutral spaces?

How can I use blogging in my own dissertation- a critical analysis of UNESCO educational policies in Sub Saharan Africa?

Can we create a hybrid blog like noah does that people who blog actually meet once a month?

How does the blogging change once you are made “public?”

I hope this helps Leah. I often look at blogging in terms of creating the conversation for my work, professionally and socially. I can participate in conversations that help me bounce ideas off unknown people and open my mind up to new alternatives. My research looks at Sub Saharan West Africa and educational policy imposed on them through UNESCO. These children are participants in the One Laptop per Child program and there is a blogging feature available on it. How can this create tranformatory dialogue? How can blogs be tools of anti-bias and anti-racist education? These are my personal questions I ask myself.

If you need anything else, don’t hesitate to ask and hope this is what you were looking for,
Bonnie

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