Week Two
Lecture: Blogs: Who? What? Where? Why?
How to find relevent blogs
- Google and Google Blog Search (e.g. "Marketing blogs", "Dallas marketing blogs", "Interactive marketing blogs", "Veritas blog", "IBM blog", "IBM blogger", "hedge fund blogger", "trading blog", etc)
- Off the blogrolls and links of ones you like, because chances are, if you like one, you like what they read, too... Slowest but most relevent and most effective.
- www.Technorati.com - Blog search engine that also gives statistics on "authority"
- del.icio.us ... Try del.icio.us/popular and ones specific to your area, like del.icio.us/popular/business or del.icio.us/popular/marketing
- Blogging conference pages
How can you tell if a blog is worth reading?
- Who is the blogger? Do they have much info on the site? A picture? Links to LinkedIn or other places they are featured?
- Is it updated regularly?
- How long have they been blogging?
- Who links to them? Use Technorati.com search Ex: http://www.technorati.com/search/www.thisisgoingtobebig.com
- Are there active commenters? Do they seem to know the person? Agree with them? Disagree with them?
- Do they add some unique perspective? Interesting style?
- Read it for a while and see what you think compared to other bloggers in the same area.
Tools: Adding Blogs to Your Daily RSS Diet
Observations
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Trends
Assignment
- Add at least 5 blogs to your RSS reader that are relevent to your career interests. Post them here.
- Create an online bio using the following guidelines:
Comments (1)
Olivia Tess Sturm said
at 3:49 pm on Jan 30, 2007
As I was trying to find some interesting blogs to post, I tried to use Technorati.com, and came to the conclusion that it did not help at all. Every time I would enter a tag something completely different would show up. Hope you had better luck with it.
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