Let Your Small Business Have a Say
If you have just arrived on this site for the first time then let me welcome you to what is commonly referred to as a blog.
The Wikipedia gives this definition for what a blog really is:
A blog is a website in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”.
The Wikipedia definition also goes on to say that “blogging has quickly emerged as a popular and important means of communication”.
These days lots of people and lots of businesses both big and small blog. Even newspapers blog but there are still a few who think that only the hip people should blog.
Razor is a journalist here in Australia who writes and blogs for the The Age (one of Australia’s major newspapers). In response to something he blogged about one reader had this to say:
I don’t even consider this a blog really. It is really just the corporate world hijaking yet another product of the underground and trying to get in on what the ‘cool’ kids are doing. Media blogs began as an alternative form of media, to have media blogs owned by the same media is kind of pointless. I don’t really understand what you are trying to achieve here as if I have no doubt that you are simply pushing the agendas of your copporate paymasters.
It’s sad to see comments like that because Razor regularly makes some very valid points in his posts but whether he does or not the comments were totally wrong.
Sure blogging was started by ordinary people. It was and is a conversation carried on by people all over the world and it should be a conversation that anyone can join in.
Even your small business has a valid place in that conversation so don’t be shy about having your say and starting a blog for your small business.
But don’t forget one vital point - sometimes when people open their mouth all they do is show the world that they really have nothing to say. Some corporations who have tried blogging have revealed a lot more about themselves than they realise.
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