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Should there be a blogging forum?

         

ccDan

2:39 am on Nov 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I just noticed that WebmasterWorld does not have a blogging forum, at least from what I can see unless I am missing it somewhere. It's discussed a bit in the RSS and Related Technologies forum, but I wonder if it merits its own separate forum? There is a forum for Forum Community Building, and blogging is just as popular, if not more so, than that now.

I certainly don't mean to step on any toes, and hope my bringing this up is not inappropriate, but I was just thinking it might be a decent idea.

I used to think the idea of having a blog on a commerce web site was, well, kind of nutty. Who cares? I go to web sites to buy a product, not read the site owner/manager's opinions on the latest gossip, right?

But, I now see that blogs can be a useful tool in terms of building web site popularity. Some people will return again and again, just to read your comments. Heck, some just want the opportunity to respond to your comment, and promote their own web site in their signature.

The advice I used to see for web site development, is to have a nice "About" page that tells about the person or people running the site. It's something that gives an otherwise impersonal experience a personal touch. You can see the people who are behind the site.

I think the blog may be the more recent equivalent of that. It gives a more dynamic personal touch than just a picture and a static "about us" text block.

So, I thought I'd just toss that idea out there. Feel free to toss it around, or toss it in the trash, or just point me to where I have shamefully overlooked the current blogging forum. ;-)

treeline

9:51 pm on Nov 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Sounds like a good idea to me. Using a blog to promote your site or for link development is more responsible than some of the ideas that get a lot of discussion around here.

Frequent

9:59 pm on Nov 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Although I agree that blogs are hot right now and useful for many things...I'm not sure they warrant a forum.

I say this because they are basically just a simple website with a simple CMS. Everything that applies to "regular" websites also apply to blogs.

Granted there is a "forum" forum...

But where does WebmasterWorld draw the line?

Blog forum, wiki forum, forum forum...there could be hundreds.

JMO- Freq---

dillonstars

12:15 pm on Nov 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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There is a blogging forum over at searchengineworld ... the place where the misfit topics live...