Dude, Blog Your Business!

 
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One thing I hear time and again from experienced bloggers is that they all learned from their mistakes.  The advice they give to new bloggers is that you shouldn’t worry too much about getting everything perfect before posting on your blog, or even starting a blog.  The best think is to just get in there and do it.

A great way to get the feel of blogging before committing yourself to your own blog is to comment on other people’s blogs.  This will give you some valuable experience and will give you the chance to see whether you like it or not.  Blogging is something you have to do on a regular basis so you want to know before you start whether or not it is for you.

Just remember, even the expert bloggers didn’t always get it right when they started.  I saw this post on Social Median today and thought it worth sharing with you – “15 Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started My First Blog” by Neil Patel.  Neil talks about some of the major things that you need to know about blogging, including the importance of picking a niche, being passionate, blogger ‘burnout’, having a unique design, responding to commentators, picking the right platform and so on.

If you are a business or non-profit contemplating a move into blogs and social media then this article will give you some valuable insights into what you are getting yourself into! And hopefully, steering you away from some early blogging mistakes. Enjoy.

I discovered Social Median –  - through ecademy.com (more about this in a future post), where I followed a couple of news items that had appeared there. I liked what I saw and so followed it back to the social median website – liked what I saw there and signed up immediately.

It is a great site that provides news feeds from a variety of channels that you choose or that friends in your network ‘filter’ through to you. Check out the introductory video (above) with Sarah Crisman. You can also create your own news and it has great integration tools so that you can share it with other social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

Started in February 2008, one of Social Median’s founders was inspired by their job as a White House staffer where every morning news “clips” of the stories that The White House staff needs to know for the day were presented. The site’s popularity has grown rapidly and is is certainly one to keep your eye on this year!