Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger has a series of posts this week dealing with “What we wish we knew when we first started blogging”. Five in total, and cover the gamut from building a blog to answering comments. Looks like a good read, which most of his posts are.
There are a million things a blogger learns over the course of their blogging career, and learning about the most common “gotchas” is an important one. Hopefully, this five part series will help identify some things for new bloggers, and provoke a smile for seasoned bloggers. Thanks Darren!
An interesting post over at the Net Business Blog suggests that sites that have use video have higher search rankings than those that do not. Check out Ebb and Flow SEO agency Omaha to learn more. It’s an interesting premis, especially I’m betting, if using YouTube over some of the others.
My question is, if I use YouTube to host my videos instead of MSN Soapbox, will it help my Google ratings?
It seems that there is a growing undercurrent of interest in voices outside the “A List” of bloggers. Several “smaller” bloggers are becoming interested in reading people from their own “level” in the blogosphere.
I use the terms “smaller” and “level” with disdain here because blogging is about much more than being labeled as A List, C List, etc… Perhaps we can call many of the A Listers the first generation of bloggers – because many of them have been at it for several years. Dave Winer for example has over 10 years of blogging under his belt! These bloggers have done the work to develop and promote blogging.
The “echo chamber” effect of reading and re-reading many so-called A List bloggers is real, and there has been a lack of new voices and fresh ideas for some time. However, that is starting to change as less known bloggers are becoming very good at getting their voices heard. Its also helping with well-known bloggers like Robert Scoble making a concerted effort to listen, comment and engage less-known bloggers.
Scoble himself points to his Google Reader Link Blog as his example of a wide-ranging list of bloggers and information that is not tapping into the A List.
Chris Brogan, who has really come into his own and become a much more well-known blogger in 2006/2007 is probably one of the best examples of engaging literally everyone he meets in the new media world.
The blogosphere is a-changin’ and its for the better. Its turning into a much more level playing field for anyone who wishes to participate.
Since getting started in video blogging, I’ve found I needed something for importing video. While I’ve been meaning to do this for some time, I’ve finally picked up a package to help do this. Pinnacle’sStudio MovieBox Plus is now mine and operational on my Windows Vista laptop. An initial import from the vidcam was pretty strait forward, and the Studio software seems to be pretty good for editing video as well.
It also allows me to use my video camera in place of my web cam if I choose – much better video quality! Another nice aspect is to live-preview on a 3rd display while editing video, green screen (chroma key), and picture-in-picture.
The side-benefit of course, is that I can now also import and burn those home-movies to DVD that I’ve been meaning to do for awhile! Can’t wait to try some things here shortly!
In yet another aspect of my changing career, I’ve started writing for 451 Press on their Minneapolis, MN blog. Currently I’m the lone author here in the northland for this blog and I’m really looking forward to covering the “city beat” of my home city.
Yes, I’ll be writing about something other than technology, blogs, personal brand, and myself. This is one more step in the direction I took in early April when I decided that corporate life no longer had a place in my professional life.
So off I go on another adventure, I’m excited to see how it turns out. I’ve been writing technical documents & manuals for many years, blogging for about 3 years and looking for an opportunity to do something different. Head on over to the Minneapolis, MN blog and don’t hesitate to let me know what you think!
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