Saturday, December 27, 2008

Blogging Effectively

The core of blogging, is to spread our thought about something, either through writings, or pictures. It just, blogging is about sharing. And, with sharing, blogger – the nicknames for people who blogs oftenly, get well-known by public.

Ways for spreading our thought through blogs, are provided by so many provider, even it was reliable. Name it! Wordpress, Blogger, until local content such as Dag Dig Dug, and also Blog Detik. And, all of the blogs provider didn’t take any payment! In other way, it’s FREE! And, of course, blogging is now easy.

Well, when blogging is now easy, it would be better if we had blogs. Why? Because now internet had been a world which live so many people who’s user on internet. And, through blogs we became the citizens of that world, and all people from around the world will know us.

So, how do we have blogs? Hmm… it’s a piece a cake! Just register yourself to one of so many blogs service provider, take a username, password, and then take the domain of your blogs (it’s look like website domain, but usually the domain was subdomain of the blogs service provider). After we had our domain address, choose the template/theme of our blogs (usually, the blogs service provider, had lots of it), and WALLA! We can go blogging.

If blogs are already had, oftenly we confused and can’t understand, how will it be the continuity of our blogs? Well, the most used ways to do it, just blogs! Writing and uploading pictures which we have through blogs publication, is a general blogging. But how if we just don’t used to write, or even upload pictures/photos? I’ll tell you how.

Ways to Blogs Effectively
Here few blogs which I done lately. If you feel confused/don’t understand, please comments on it. I’ll be waiting for the feedback.
1. Write what we like.
It could be our diary, our hobbies, things which we just seen/heard/felt of ANYTHING! Because, as I told before, the essence of blogging is sharing. So, just share anything!
2. Use the easy-to-understand languages.
The simple languages, like the languages which we use daily, are more easy-to- understand by the people who read our blogs. So, it will be easier to understand of what are we trying to share to them.
3. Don’t forget to use smile!
Because with smileys on our blogs, it will make our blogs and writings or postings, will be closer to our readers, lighter, and friendly.
4. English? Why not?
I said English, this is for people who don’t use English as their daily languages. English is an international language, and internet is an international network. To get the sympathy of international network, which the users all around the world, English would be the understandable language. But, if we like the local language – which in my case, Indonesia, because I live in Indonesia, it’s also okay. There’s no warnings not to use it.
5. Continue.
People who interested nor ever read our blogs, if they found something which is interesting, they would come back to seek the newest post of our blogs. And, the most effective to get their interest, is the blogs must have the continuity.
6. Up to date!
Well, this thing is the vital thing. Because, even though the previous 5 steps has already done, if it don’t up to date, I’m certain that our blogs visitor will loose their interest to keep reading our blogs. With publishing the posts which updated – whatever it will be, it would be more interesting than new post, but old news.
7. Blogwalking.
This way is quite effective to tell people and also most internet users, about the existence of our blogs. With blogwalking, usually it would be noted from where the visitor of our blogs. For example, if we visit the blogs on wordpress, so the origin of blogs will be noted. And, don’t forget to give comments in every blogs we visited! With commenting their posts, the blogs owner will visit back to our blogs, and they would be wanted to know further about the people who commented on their blogs.

The 7 ways of blogging effectively, doesn’t to be done all of it just to keep we blogs. You can take one of it, or none of it, the choice is yours. Because, we-ourselves know what and why we blogs than other people, right?

I hope, it’s useful.

Billy Koesoemadinata
Writer – Journalist – Blogger (wannabe)

3 comments:

Brian Barker said...

Hi Billy

I live in London and if anyone says to me “everyone speaks English” my answer is “Listen and look around you”. If people in London do not speak English then the whole question of a global language is completely open.

The promulgation of English as the world’s “lingua franca” is unethical and linguistically undemocratic. I say this as a native English speaker!

Unethical because communication should be for all and not only for an educational or political elite. That is how English is used internationally at the moment.

Undemocratic because minority languages are under attack worldwide due to the encroachment of majority ethnic languages. Even Mandarin Chinese is attempting to dominate as well. The long-term solution must be found and a non-national language, which places all ethnic languages on an equal footing is long overdue.

An interesting video can be seen at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a former translator with the United Nations

A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

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very long article! Bener-bener nggak mudeng! Maklum TOEFL saya jelek!

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