,,Go kill more trees”, my friend Edial cheerfully replied when I told him about my upcoming blog book. ,,While you’re writing articles for the newspaper, don’t forget your personal blog”, Erwin Blom warned me on Twitter. Are you a journalist or a blogger, people ask me frequently. Hell, I don’t know guys. I just publish. And for every story, I pick the most suitable medium.
Continue reading Pick your medium. Every day
,,What’s the goal of your personal blog?”, I asked on Twitter. Everybody seems to approach their personal blog in a totally different way. Alper Çuğun (@alper) for example, mentioned that he uses his blog as a public CMS. Andrew Block (@andrewblock) defined the goals of his blog four years ago. One Twitter user, Erwin Blom (@erwblo), responded that by I want too much strategy. ,,Blogging is about telling stories and…
Continue reading You’re a writer and strategist at the same time
During a very hectic Web 2.0 Expo week in New York City, I did luckily find some time to work on my Dutch ebook about blogging. Chapter two concerns blogs and communities and I figured social media guru Erwin Blom was the man to interview about this material. So while enjoying a couple of beers in an Irish pub, we discussed whether blogs are communities or not.
We had a hard…
Continue reading Building a community on your blog with Yahoo Pipes
All the bloggers immediately know what I’m talking about if I start complaining that readers don’t comment. A famous study by Jakob Nielsen in October 2006 showed that only one percent of a blog’s visitors contribute to the comments section on a regular basis:
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the…
Continue reading Getting readers to comment by writing an unfinished blog post
There it is, yet another blog! Number 3 for me, yet this will be a completely different story than The Next Web and Spotlight Effect. This is the place where I can write whatever I want, whenever I want. But to keep it interesting for a large crowd, I’ll also post blog tips regularly. You can expect the following types of posts:
Continue reading What will I post on dutchproblogger.com?
Dutchproblogger.com is the home of nrc.next blogger Ernst-Jan Pfauth, a 24-year old guy from Amsterdam who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations.
His personal blog contains unconventional and daring blogging tips that will make you a more effective and original blogger.
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