Jersey’s first blogging seminar
Webreality hosted Jersey’s first business blogging seminar today. For the benefit of those who attended, and for regular readers, I’m listing some key facts and urls.
Many people expressed concern today about how to find out what’s being said about their businesses. The first place to start is Technorati. Technorati indexes blogs in real-time, and is also helpful for identifying trends in the blogosphere. You should also start reading some industry blogs with a blog reader, like newsgator. You can find new blogs by searching on Google, e.g. travel blogs.
If you’d like to start blogging today, you can use one of the free blogging engines, like blogger. Or you could wait for Webreality’s new business blogging portal, which will be online during December. You could also take a look at some sample blog policies here.
If you’d like to do more reading on blogging, I’d strongly recommend Blog Marketing by Jeremy Wright.
During the seminar we spoke about interacting with bloggers. Since many of the attendees were virgin bloggers, perhaps you’d like to do the deed, and post a comment right here, right now?
P.S. Sincere thanks to Angela Alder, Gilly Challinor, and Suzanne le Lay for their prodigous organisation, and to Suzanne for buying table cloths. Thanks also to the rest of the WR team for their front-of-house work today.
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Very useful! You must have been up all night making the sarnies and it’s a shame David Warr didn’t bring the coffee. That aside, I will be putting a blog section on the new information site for potential 1(1)(K)applicants. Catch up soon.
Congratulations James - you win the fastest blogger of the day award.
Robert Mackenzie’s blog, as promised, is : http://robertinjersey.spaces.live.com/
Based on todays seminar Adapt Design will be implementing a Blog facility on a website we are developing at the moment which will hopefully provide great feedback. By the way Robert Mackenzie your very brave showing off those legs of yours!
I have just created my first blog site called Sort it, print it, make it about my company Paperclone and hoping because you’re so supportive Phil you may go and leave a comment because I have absolutely no idea how to link it to this site. I really enjoyed your talk yesterday it was if a window opened. Thanks alot
Well done Lisa! If you email me the link to your blog, I’ll add you to this site.
Phil,
Well done. Lovely, provocative presentation. I felt most participants will have gone away looking for more info on blogging.
You could have provided the “Tipping Point” for a good number of people. Your passion and enthusiasm is infectious.
Here is a useful site that may provide further thoughts. http://www.wordbiz.com/archive/20blogdefs.shtml
Well done to your team for organising the event.
Rod
Good Afternoon, thanks for the seminar yesterday it was extremely interesting. Prior to it, i had created several blogs and it did indeed slightly expand on the knowledge i already had. A possibly opinionated question (blogger to blogger) that i would like to raise to you would be, do you think that this blog empire is just a phase and the whole blog world could come crashing down rather abruptly or do you instead think this is the first stages to an everlasting blog establishment?
Dale, Thanks for the comment. You’ve raised a big topic, and I’ll blog on it soon.
In the meantime, I don’t think the blogosophere will abruptly disappear, it has too much critical momemtum. It may, however, morph into something we’ve not invented yet.
The fundamentals though, two-way public networking, are here to stay.
Phil, i’m a plonker but I have lost my own blog page…..How do I avoid doing that again?
Hi Phil
Can you tell us more about your blogging ‘portal’ or is that a secret?
Christine (JEP)
Hi Christine
Welcome to the blogosphere! We are currently building a blog portal for Jersey businesses. It’s no secret, just a product in development. I’ll post more very soon.
Very best regards
Phil