Best Practices for Blogs

Guidelines 

http://socialmediab2b.com/2009/06/business-blogging-best-practices/

• Create compelling content
• Content must be informative as well as compelling and must be relevant to your audience. It is important to think about your blog from the point of view of your target audience and decide if your article provides value. 

• Post on a regular schedule 
• Consistent publishing takes discipline and time. People want new information and will not be interested unless there is a consistent flow of new information. 

• Engage with your readers
• Engage with your readers and write compelling content that brings your audience back for more. It is good if readers are leaving comments and every comment should get a real response. It encourages readers when they see authors responding to their posts. Thank your audience for their participation. 

Blogging & Teaching

        I choose three blogs I believe would have information that would most interest me. The first blog I choose was Public Relations Blogger because I am a public relations major at Utah State University. This blog provides tips on how to be successful in this field once you graduate from college. I like the way this blog is outlined. I appreciate its simplicity and feel that it is easy to navigate my way through it. However, I do like when blogs have style and this isn't a very stylish blog. It is more fun to read blogs when they are eye catching with movies or neat photography pictures. I do understand its purpose is to inform and not so much entertain and it does serves its purpose of providing educational tips.

     The next blog I choose is 10,000 Words. I found this blog after typing in the keyword multimedia because I am currently studying this as my minor. I am not a huge fan of this blog because it is hard for me to tell what purpose it serves. I am sure if I spent time and read through the blog I would gain a clear understanding but I would rather it was more simple. I like to know what a blog is about within the first few minutes of viewing it. From what I understand, this blog is meant to provide tips to be successful with multimedia. This blog does interest me because I believe multimedia is important to learn. It is such a big part of society now days. In order to stay update one must have a Facebook, blog or Twitter account. I like how this blog gives advice on how to utilize multimedia sites successfully. 

    The last blog I choose Food Politics because I am interested in food and nutrition. I like this title of this blog, I think it is creative and catchy. This makes fun of food companies that advocate for health but their product really isn't healthy. I think this is a great idea for a blog because it is entertaining, however I would prefer to read a blog that gives tips on how to stay healthy. This blog is eye catching and fun to read. It is educational because it opens ones eyes to the real nutritional value of foods believed to be most healthy.