Born out of the necessity for certain quarters to reach out to the people effectively and personally, blogging has shown its prowess in the recent general election and now many politicians are getting into the act.
This is what Oon Yeoh commented in The Star, he is a writer and a New Media analyst.
Here are some advice from him on blogging:
- Don’t outsourcing blogging duties. It’s got to be from you and the postings have to reflect your true personality and world view. If there are some grammatical mistakes, so be it. What’s important is that it’s real.
- Don’t play it safe. Express yourself. Nobody wants to read boring, politically-correct comments.
- Post updates regularly, at least once a day, ideally more. But keep them short. A paragraph or two is plenty for blog postings.
- A good practice is to embed links into some keywords in your blog posting. Such links are useful because they make it easy for the reader to do follow-up reading on the topic you’re blogging about.
- Respond to comments or at the very least let them run. Blogging is not column writing. Nor is it a monologue but rather a dialogue between the blogger and his readers.
- Like any activity that requires discipline and hard work, once you stop blogging, you’ll get rusty and it’s pretty hard to get the momentum going again.
This is what Oon Yeoh commented in The Star, he is a writer and a New Media analyst.
Here are some advice from him on blogging:
- Don’t outsourcing blogging duties. It’s got to be from you and the postings have to reflect your true personality and world view. If there are some grammatical mistakes, so be it. What’s important is that it’s real.
- Don’t play it safe. Express yourself. Nobody wants to read boring, politically-correct comments.
- Post updates regularly, at least once a day, ideally more. But keep them short. A paragraph or two is plenty for blog postings.
- A good practice is to embed links into some keywords in your blog posting. Such links are useful because they make it easy for the reader to do follow-up reading on the topic you’re blogging about.
- Respond to comments or at the very least let them run. Blogging is not column writing. Nor is it a monologue but rather a dialogue between the blogger and his readers.
- Like any activity that requires discipline and hard work, once you stop blogging, you’ll get rusty and it’s pretty hard to get the momentum going again.
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