Blogging in context of Social Media
Dhananjay Nene
Pune Blogcamp 2
June 27, 2009
http://blog.dhananjaynene.com http://dhananjay.nene.in
http://twitter.com/dnene http://twitter.com/d7y
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Why social media ?
We use social media for timepass, keeping in
touch, increasing visibility, branding, promotion
and monetisation.
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Coordination is helpful
When your objective is visibility, branding and/or
promotion, coordinated usage of media
necessary
We shall primarily be focusing on blogs
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Blogs as diaries are becoming less prominent
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A sufficiently strong focus is important to attract a
good readership for a blog
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Twitter will generally beat blogs to fast moving /
briefly expressible news / events / information
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The role of a blog in establishing new
relationships is limited, but it can play a
substantial role in providing the credibility for
such relationships
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Twitter, Facebook et. al. have taken away the
newspaper / phone call content away from
blogs. Blogs retain the letter, magazine flavour
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Blogs for fast moving news
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Provide your detailed perspective or insight into
the topic. Some original contribution is essential
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You will need to update the post regularly.
Keep the placeholder ready for all the updates.
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Needs rapid push to blog aggregators
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Comment on related topics on other topical
posts with a link back to drive traffic quickly
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Timing is of essence.
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Twitter can't dance saala*
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Reference to Context : Place an issue in context
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Collation : Present multiple pieces of information
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Analysis : Present insights or conclusions
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Information : Press Releases
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Do it yourself : Detailed how-tos
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Reference : Comprehensive coverage of a topic
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Reviews : Look back, paraphrase and represent
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Insightful Defended Opinions.
(c) 2009 Dhananjay Nene, Pune, India *Phrase based on an Indian Song. Meanst twitter can be good at a lot of other stuff but not whats listed above.

Microblogs and Social networks have taken on
some earlier functions of the blog. They
however promote and support not threaten
blogs
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Blogs, Microblogs, and Social Networks have a
symbiotic relationship and feed off each other
and support each other in terms of both eyeballs
and discovering relationships
Feeds still define the enduring relationships for
blogs
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Symbiotic relationships
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Use microblogs and social networks to engage
with people and promote blog
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It makes sense to cross thread all three so long
as you don't litter.
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Right messages to wrong audiences are SPAM
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Encourage engagement at a lower level
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Beyond the top 3
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There are more avenues to build a network and
support your blog than microblogs and social
networks.
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Tumble logs eg. Tumblr
− Provide brief commentary on articles you read. Link back
to your posts only if relevant
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Social bookmarking eg. Delicious
− Find other people who've bookmarked your posts, or with
whom you share bookmarks
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Lifestreaming eg. friendfeed
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Weave without littering, your blog posts into
microblogs and your social network content
along with other social media such as tumble
logs, bookmarks and lifestreams
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Thank You
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