June 11, 2008 at 4:30 pm (Promoting Your Blog)
Tags: blog traffic
Here’s another blog post I found that gives a listing of tips on what to write about in order to increase weblog traffic: How to Get Traffic to Your Blog.
I don’t think all of these are a must, like the snarky suggestion, but they all have some merit and are worth considering, especially if you are trying to figure out what to write about.
June 10, 2008 at 9:38 pm (General Info)
Tags: Jakob Nielsen, web writing
In my blog classes, I usually touch on the difference between writing for the web versus writing for hard copy publications. I say “touch” because I’m sure I could easily teach an entire class on web writing, and the main focus of my blog classes at this point tend to be more nuts and bolts.
Today, someone showed me this article from usability guru Jakob Nielsen, so it is something I think I will start pointing my classes to for those who are interested in finding out more concerning blog-related writing. I don’t necessarily agree with 100% of what he says, but most of it I think has some truth to it, and he is considered an expert in the topic so his theories are worth knowing about: Writing Style for Print vs Web.
