why blogging
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Copy of my presentation during International Bloggers Conference 2013 in the Art of Living International Ashram, BengaluruTRANSCRIPT
From DummyWhy Blogging for Dummies
Why?
How?
What?
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Why Bloggers Blog?
• Something to say/share
• Promote oneself/others
• Establish a community and connect
• Provide a Service
• Stay Updated
• Make money
• Creativity and Fun
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Why Bloggers Blog?
• Biggest reason of them all
HE wants us to
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How?
• Identify your theme & Establish a Clear purpose
• Blogging for what?
– Demonstrate Creativity
– Establish some standing for youselves
– Promotion (Self or others) & Improve Visibility
– Seva
– Money
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Hobby Blogging
• Predominantly this audience belong here (My assumption)
• Can our blog then be “free for all”, “no-hold barred”, “stress-free” blogging without any purpose?– Has to be Thematic : Humour, Gyan (Oh! Yes Our
Forte), Current Affairs, Sports, Media Watching, Movies etc
• Doesn’t preclude you from having a direction
• LOST???
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Hobby Blogging
• Easy to Brand and Best Theme :
Art of Livingand/or
HH Pujya Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar
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What’s in it for you? Advantages
• Happening Organization, Philosophy & Master
• Events, anecdotes and miracles perpetually –never fall short of stuff to write
• Credible and Experiential GYAN ;)
• Privilege of getting your Blog listed on “artofliving.org” domain
• Increased Traffic to your blog (AOL Community – a world in itself)
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Transformation Needs
• Now Blogging with Purpose (for self/someone)
• Stress-free blogging? Yes, but greater responsibility
• Research and Present Objectively
• TECHNIQUE Important (Don’t reply only on GRACE!)
• Format, Design, write and Execute for SUCCESS
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How & What to Write
• Contents decided by 2 factors
– Your Audience
– Your Capability (Knowledge and Competence)
• Marketing Requirements
– Need for Marketing
– Methods of Marketing
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How & What to Write
• Marketing a blog like an an aerial attack only softens your enemy
• Ground forces win the war – meaning, Exciting Stuff is must for a Popular Blog
• Vision for your Blog decides what you write
• Important to have each of the mission in line with vision
• Once Vision is in place, design a Strategy to realize the vision
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Strategy & Tactic
• Strategy is not equal to Tactics.• Strategy doesn’t change drastically, tactics vary
based on situations (of your blogging)• To start off have a flexible tactic by and large to
realize the strategic goals • Al Ries says: Tactic is the nail, strategy is the
hammer.• Strategy and Tactics are executed and first finish
line is reached a newer finish line will get defined
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Promotion of Blog
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Promotion
• Bloggers of similar Theme
• Comment & Promote their Blogs too
• Advantages blogging in a community– You already have an audience (not shouting into
an empty space)
– Feeling of participating in a established discussion
• If appropriate, add a link from your blog if it adds value to discussion thread
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Promotion
• Tweet when you publish– People who follow you on Twitter are those who
seek to know what you are upto.
• Provide relevant links from your blogs to support or enhance a Twitter Discussion
• Also Promote blogs that you like (of others), Mutual scratchback is bound to happen
• Use SEO technique to make blog more discoverable
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Promotion
• SEO is all about Intelligent use of keywords in line with the Vision and Strategy.
• Provide Auto-Feed and updates to other Social Media sites – FB, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumbler etc.
• Design blogs with Tags, Categories and labels
• Finally ensure a Catchy Title – (and discoverable ones)
– Remember it is not about Semantics, it is about discoverability
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Remember! P-s of Blogging
• Purpose
• Polish (Proofing)
• Publish (Obviously)
• Promote (Your and Other’s blog)
• Participate (Engage)
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Jai Gurudev…
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