On Creativity and Content
Before I go any further, today is India’s Republic Day. To all our Indian/of Indian origin friends and readers, happy Republic Day!
As you think about blogging, whether for personal or business reasons, how much do you mix up your content?
Seriously, please tell me in the comments section, I really want to know.
I’m guilty of thinking about it a lot, but not doing it enough. I love different types of content, and like many people, am attracted to visuals almost as much as – perhaps more so than – written content. Not necessarily infographics, though there are some great ones out there, but give me a great cartoon, and I’m hooked.
I love Mark Schaefer’s {growtoons}, Ken Mueller featuring The Social Life of Frank and Linh and get a kick out of Jeff Esposito sharing his pick for cartoon of the day.
Filed under Blogging for Grasshoppers, Communication, Shonali Burke | Tags: blogging, cartoons, creativity, erin feldman, waxing off | Comments (31)Hitting the Reset Button
Good morning and happy Monday (or good evening or good night and here’s to a great Tuesday for you, depending on where you are as you read this).
You may not have noticed, but for the last couple of weeks, Waxing UnLyrical has not been publishing over the weekend.
The three main reasons for this are:
1. While I love blogging, the blog community, social media, etc., more and more I’ve been feeling the need to decompress and stay offline as much as possible during the weekend (just as I’ve been trying to do on vacation). Now, when it comes to blogging, you could certainly tell me that I can schedule posts ahead of time and do just that.
That is true. But then, if the weekend posts got comments (which they didn’t always, but sometimes they would), I’d feel terribly conflicted as I had to choose between replying to those comments immediately and doing boring offline married people stuff with my husband (not to mention paying a little more attention to my dogs).
Filed under Blogging, Blogging for Grasshoppers, Shonali Burke | Tags: blogging, building blog readership, consistency, evaluation, quality and quantity | Comments (81)New Study Finds You Suck
The other day I read that higher education consulting firm, Noel-Levitz, found that more than three-quarters of students and parents it surveyed never or only rarely read blogs on college websites.
I manage a blog for a mid-sized Canadian University.
The study was listed as one of the bullet points in Academica’s Top Ten, a daily scan of the news stories in Canadian Higher Education.
Anyone worth their salt in our organization subscribes.
So, you can imagine my chagrin finding this.
It’s August. Both the campus and the blog are less active than normal.
Filed under Measurement, Public Relations, Shanan Sorochynski, Social Media | Tags: analytics, blogging, higher ed, Measurement, metrics, performance metric, program management, Social Media, statistics | Comments (4)
