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Wordpress or Blogger?
Confused about all the different blog publishing options? It’s a tricky decision to make, and completely dependent on your personal requirements and plans.
Over on Miramus Gadgets for Girls site, Dork Adore, we’ve put together a handy guide for the pros and cons of WordPress and Blogger, the two leading free blogging platforms.
What kind of blog do you write?
Last week, I wrote “how to write a company blog” in which I promised that you don’t have to write a corporate news blog or a personal blog if it doesn’t suit you or your business. But just how do you work out what your company blog should be about?
To find out what sort of blog best suits your business and personality, we’ve put together this handy questionnaire:
Company blogs don't need to be dull
I’m often asked if there’s a “best way” to write a company blog. The simple truth is that there *IS* no best way.
How to write a business blog not only varies from industry to industry, but also from person to person.
The internet is like a horse — it can smell fear!
If you’re not the sort of person who likes sharing personal information, then you shouldn’t even THINK about writing a personal-style blog on your company site. The very worst thing you could do is to try to force it.
But if you can write personal details that are interesting and funny, in a way that promotes what it is you’re doing, why not share those little details?! SMEs especially can benefit from a personal blogging style.
If you prefer to keep it strictly business, you can fill your company blog with information customers want to know about. This works well if you have the sort of company that is intrinsically sexy and appealing — or if your customers are interested in some of the b2b info and insight you can pass on.
Far be it from us to harp on about the dork-haven of loveliness that is Dork Adore (we admit we’re biased, but it’s true) but since they’re building quite a healthy list of web tools for bloggers, we thought it only polite to draw your attention to it.
If you’re blogging for your business (or just blogging for the hell of it — we applaud that too), here are some Firefox add-ons, online resources and incredibly handy tools to keep you tapping at top speed.
Running Firefox? Then you’ll love these handy addons to make your blogging life easier
Top five Firefox add-ons for bloggers.
Five more Firefox addons for bloggers, including a block for those time wasting sites, a Morning Coffee addon and a way to prettify your google reader
Five more Firefox add-ons for bloggers.
The very best blogging tools for web writers. Check out which Firefox addons we couldn’t live without. Contents may include a span-free blog content notepad, a CSS toolbar, a British dictionary to avoid those embarrassing typos and a quick and easy image editor.
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