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Engagement Part 1: Blogging29 January
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
What are we going to do?
• Insight:– What are blogs and Blogosphere – Some does and donts– Blogging Styles
• Practical:– Think about a blog, strategy and content
Why use blogs?
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Why use Blogs?
• Keep an audience informed• Mobilise and energise a community• Reach out to stakeholders• Forum for debate• Resources of information• Hubs to connect to other social media
What Are Blogs?
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
What are blogs?
• Name comes from ‘web log’• Wordpress, Blogger, Moveable Type• Squidoo, Hubpages (self publishing)• ‘Blogosphere’
What features do blogs have?What is good?What is bad?
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Key Features About Blogs• Turnkey publishing platform
– Text, video, photos, sound• ‘Push’ concept:
– Content automatically is syndicated to readers and the web e.g. search engines
• Conversation and Participation:– Comments and trackbacks (links to blog)– Polls, interactivity– feedburner
• SEO friendly:– Keywords, regularly changing content, search engine spiders like them
• Metrics:– Provide lots of interesting data
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Do and Don’ts Of Blogging
• DO:– Know your strategy– Know your audience– Engage with appropriate blogging style– Post regularly and split posts up aka the “arabian
night method”– Use plugins .. Twitter feed, latest comments,
bookmarking etc– Use keywords and tags– Have a RSS feed and optin box
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Do and Donts Of Blogging
• DON’T:– Leave spam or random negative posts online– Break character or be anonymous– stop
How Can You Use A Blog?
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
How Can You Use A Blog
• Events• Features• Polls• Facts• Press releases• Stories .. Human interest etc• Opinions, feedback, responses < important
Who has written a blog?
Is it easy or hard?
‘Old’ rules apply:
AwarenessInterestDesireAction
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Blogging Styles
• Different styles require different periods of update
• Styles will also influence comments and trackbacks
• Some styles are easy, others are quite hard• 5 suggested styles ….
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Expert Insights….
• Topic … PR, cats, football, nightlife• Writer shares insight, original ideas,
commentary, trends• Quite difficult– Mashable– Problogger
• Daily blog posts• Generates good buzz
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Breaking News …
• Announcement and news not found anywhere else
• Being first matters• Frequent daily posting• Generates lots of buzz• Hard to maintain– Engadget.com
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Me Too Blogging …
• Select a topic that’s already being talked about• News item that’s currently popular• 2 or 3 days a week• Regular readers may share comments• Not too hard– Mark Borkowski
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Evangelist Blogging
• Passionate postings showing affinity, support for a cause, organization, product, individual etc
• Inspire and inform• Daily• Can create buzz, have viral power• Medium difficulty
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Top Ten Favourite Lists Blogging
• Popular and effective method• Top ten things• Best, favourite etc etc• Good for bookmarking and reading later• Viral• Need to be done daily• Create good buzz• Not too difficult
Tell your story…
…. People will listen
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Tell Your Story
• The before and after• The discovery story• The telling secrets story• The third person testimonial• The Us vs Them Saga
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
Summary
• Tell stories• Listen• Understand who your audience is• Communicate and build a relationship• Measure
Building Relationships Through Blogging An IntroductionCopyright. All rights reserved. The Moo Group 2001 – 2011
www.directdigitalresponse.com
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