What blog would you recommend as a source for one who wants to start blogging?
A blog for bloggers if you will.
Clarification added March 28, 2007:
A little more since maybe I was not very clear - a blog as a source to continuously learn more about blogging, design, widgets etc etc.
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* Vox (www.vox.com) for personal blogging -- sharing ideas, photos, and videos with friends and family
* TypePad (www.typepad.com) for public blogging -- promote your ideas, yourself, your company to the world
* Movable Type (www.movabletype.com) for publishing or internal blogging -- if you are serious about an advanced blog site, or want blogs behind the firewall
* LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com) for journaling with friends -- express yourself and connect with friends online
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Ed D
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Ed D suggests this expert on this topic:
Lee has had extensive hands-on experience as an early adopter/non-techie in getting to grips with blogging, podcasting, vodcasting and all manner of innovative channels for content syndication - he understands the user's perspective very well: ease of use, foolproof, predictable results and reliable.
Rob C
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For blogging itself, rather than any of the surrounding technical details, I would recommend Copyblogger. For general marketing (ie. self promotion) ideas I like Seth Godin's blog and, if Kathy Sierra can come back after the recent horrible events, the Creating Passionate Users blog also touches on areas which can be applied to blogging (just think of it as 'Creating Passionate Readers'.
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"The blogging blog" would be a good resource, though it is a bit out of date.
Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) or any of the other blogging sites (typepad, movable type, live journal, even mySpace) should be able to get you started on blogging.
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Bokardo is hands down my favorite blog for social media, and he has a few great posts for would-be bloggers. Two links to it below.
If you're looking for traffic and exposure (your next big step), I'd check out articles on seomoz.org and google the heck out of linkbaiting.
If you're looking for ways to make money, I'd check out ProBlogger.net.
Lots of links below (oh-- I can only add three).
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Karen V
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An amazing amount of info for you:
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Arnie M
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I second ProBlogger - he's all about information about bloggers. I would also recommend signing up for MyBlogLog - good connection point with other bloggers.
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I found www.blogger.com very easy to use. I was surprised that I managed to alter the look and feel without crashing it all.
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It depends on what you want to do. Personally, I find Blogger to be deplorable from a reader's standpoint. The templates are relatively inflexible, and I can say from experience that blogspot.com URLs are often glossed over by readers, as it's a URL that is used by amateurs and fly-by-night bloggers who start a blog and quit a few days later.
I've used Wordpress and Moveable Type, and of the two, find Wordpress so much easier to use.
www.kerflop.com is actually doing a series on blogging right know. She's a personal blogger, but some of her advice is universal.
VK X
Senior Consultant at Gerson Lehrman Group - Technology, Media, Telecommunications
It's true: Dead men don't wear plaid!
If you like a little flash and colour ... try PLAID.
http://www.plaidfile.com/
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Brian O
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I'd also suggest problogger.net although it's mostly focused on making money, more than site design
I really like dailyblogtips.com for a short burst of information every day.
If you go with a self hosted wordpress site, www.easywordpress.com has some ideas, but it's heavy on the themes which can get annoying once you've picked yours.
IHelpYouBlog.com has all the key words that you seem to need in his URL. :) He mostly has ideas for content which is a nice addition to the above.
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Brett M
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I have a very in depth list saved in my delicious account and you are welcome to use it.
http://del.icio.us/BrettMcCoy/blog
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Hi Mrinal,
Good question. There are two kinds of resources you may want to leverage.
1. On blogging, widgets, design, etc...
* on blogging for beginners - http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/14/blogging-for-beginners-2/.
* on corporate blogging - Debbie Weil's The Corporate Blogging Book: http://www.blogwriteforceos.com/.
* on design (not just blogging related) - http://www.presentationzen.com/.
2. On your area of expertise
Since I'm focused on customer evangelism and community marketing, when I started blogging my initial favorites were
* Guy Kawasaki's blog
* Church of the customer
* Tara Hunt's blog
I'm sure you'll find blogs on your areas of interest that'll give you some insight into how thought leaders blog.
Also, I'd strongly recommend Google Reader as a feed reader (if you haven't picked that already).
Hope this helps.
Mario
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Hans C
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If you are blogging on a corporate blog I suggest reading Naked Conversations by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble. This is their blog: http://redcouch.typepad.com/ You can pick the book up online.
If you want to promote you new blog I suggest using http://www.postreach.com
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I've used Moveable Types for years for personal server usage, and have others that have used wordpress.com for those that don't have a personal server.
This is an excellent list to start with!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
You should definitely check out Future of Communities. It's an aggregation of bloggers talking only about communities, and since they're bloggers, they give a lot of advice on blogging. In addition, they link to a lot of great bloggers offering advice on the subject.
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Damon B
Director, Customer Evangelism
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While not specific to blogging, I would very much recommend picking up a book called The Cluetrain Manifesto. Many internet folks, including bloggers, definitely latched onto some of the ideas in the book.
I would also recommend reviewing the Technorati Top 100 list so you can see what the "a-listers" are doing.
