My Google Reader subscribes to 44 VoIP related blogs. Lately I noticed that much less posts so I decided to do a little research, and here are the results –
1. In the last month, only 27 have any posts at all
2. On the average I now receive in my reader about 8 VoIP related posts a day as opposed to 25-30 a day a year ago.
3. Personally - my blog The Flat Planet and a Phone has seen only one post in the last month
What happened to all the bloggers? Are they they blogging less? Why?
In review it seems that some of the semi-pro bloggers like Jeff, Andy and Luca are still blogging regularly and some like Pat are blogging less. However all of them, like myself are pretty active on twitter and facebook!
In my mind that is the answer! For most of the ideas I want to express, twitter is a great solution. True there are more complicated issues that you can not fit into 140 characters, but once you get use to twittering your ideas it ain’t easy to go back to legacy blogging!
Do you blog? How has twitter changed your blogging habits? How has this effected your business? I know in the past customers have come to us as a result of reading my blog. Will the same customers find me on twitter? I would love to hear your comments!
2 responses so far ↓
1 RubenOlsen // Apr 26, 2009 at 10:22 am
I do some sporadic blogging at http://www.open-voip.com/ - mostly comment about current affairs in the realm of (more or less) real time communication.
By using Twitter more of a work related tool, rather than a personal “look at what I do” kind of tool - it does indeed have affects on my blogging. I do not care for the number of visits I get after posting a pointer to my latest blog entry on Twitter.
However, what I get out of Twitter is the ability to comment on VoIP and communication related issues much faster than spend time in my RSS reader in the evening.
My blog is not my company blog, even if some of the things I write about in my blog is related to my company. I deliberately want my blog to be separate from what we do in my company. I really do not see that potential customers (in Europe) will see my English written blog - nor will they see my English tweets.
However, what my blogging and my Twittering has achieved is connecting to business partners - not customers. For our new started company in this is currently much more important to us. Our partners can take us into parts of the European market we our self can not venture by our self.
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