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By: UPLOAD » Netz im Netz: Zukunftsmodell Blogverbund?

UPLOAD » Netz im Netz: Zukunftsmodell Blogverbund? — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:31:26 +0000

[...] Sinnvoll wäre es, diese Hauptseite noch weiter zu denken. Neben den aktuellen Inhalten aus den Weblogs und den grundlegenden Basisinformationen wären Newsletter zu verschiedenen Themen oder ein Forum eine gute Idee. Weitere Angebote ergeben sich aus dem Thema und der Zielgruppe. Wie Problogger Darren Rowse neulich in seinem Artikel “How Blogs Will Merge with Other Types of Websites” schrieb, werden Weblogs mit anderen Website-Arten verschmelzen. Robert Basic hatte beispielsweise die Idee aufgebracht, aus Weblog-Kommentaren ein Forum zu speisen, das wiederum die Weblogs speist. Aber das ist ein Thema für einen eigenen Artikel. [...]

By: Pengbone’s Weblog » e-resources和e-books

Pengbone’s Weblog » e-resources和e-books — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:45:43 +0000

[...] Darren Rowse在他本月16日的文章《How blogs will merge with other types of websites in 2007》中对博客今年的预测有一段是这样写的：e-resources – I was surprised that there were less bloggers releasing e-books in 2006 than I expected and wonder whether I was just ahead of myself. To me it seems like a natural progression for bloggers to find other ways to monetize their blogs than just by using advertising and by promoting other people’s products via affiliate programs. My expectation is that bloggers will take the content that they produce and repackage it for sale in other forms (e-books, courses and the like). [...]

By: The Blog Columnist » Blog Archive » Where is Blogging Heading? The Thoughts of a ProBlogger

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:21:18 +0000

[...] Have a read and start thinking where your blogging may/can head in 2007 – How Blogs Will Merge with Other Types of Websites in 2007 [...]

By: Marti

Marti — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:21:47 +0000

I’ve sold about equal numbers of the book I made from blog entries, as print and download. I think you are dead on with the expansion of blogs having forums and video. I wish I had the bandwidth to try them – LOL

Hope this finds you well – we are buried in an ice storm at the moment – I’m grateful to still have electricity!

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:28:36 +0000

For about five years now I have been selling e-books. In 2006, I got busy working on optimizing my site advertising. The results with AdSense and other programs have been so good that I decided that I can make more money from simply giving away the e-book content free on the web and monetizing the sites. The more content I can publish, the better ad revenue will be. Within the next 90 days, I won’t be offering e-books anymore.

By: Mark Wu

Mark Wu — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:44:22 +0000

I agree with David about a blog being “a piece of technology” that’s part of a site. Keeping a site updated with fresh, well-written content is time-consuming, if that’s the route you want to take.

However, blogging software (I use Wordpress) can be easy to implement and gives you the ability to quickly start a content-managed website. Granted, I’m a digital designer, so I don’t have trouble installing and customising Wordpress, however, I couldn’t program a cms.
But blogging has allow me to start off a website that I plan to grow into a kind of community portal, that brings together technology to allow me to implement ideas for e.g. photo galleries, an award system for related websites etc. on top of the blog. Doing it this way simply allow the website to grow organically, rather than trying to build an all singing, dancing beast, only to find that it doesn’t work (in all senses..)!

In other words, one approach is to use a blog to form a site itself, but I like to see it as a platform to develop a site further. In line with Darren’s article, that’s my aim for 2007!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:31:12 +0000

Wow, I just launched a brand new blog site with an integrated forum at infinivert.com yesterday. I already have plans to include audio/video and portal features, so it is awesome to hear such a respected expert give this forecast. Thanks for the post!

–Josh

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:04:26 +0000

I think the big trend is going to be adding a blog slice to a regular website. In other words you'll have a website log. I've coined the expression Slog for that.

By: Martin Lindsey

Martin Lindsey — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:59:33 +0000

I’m interested to see how vido becomes more integrated into blogs. I’ve always been Spike Spielberg in my mind. I also like the idea of e-books because I’ve always wanted to publish my thoughts. Bloggers really aren’t doing e-books that much? I’m excited about how these two things will become easier and more common over time.

By: David

David — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:48:59 +0000

It’s looking to me as if a blog is simply going to be a piece of technology that’s part of a website.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:22:05 +0000

My blog has a Cafepress shop merged into it with content similar in theme to my posts are the product designs.

By: nicozorn.com Marketing-Weblog » Archiv » Ein paar Links

nicozorn.com Marketing-Weblog » Archiv » Ein paar Links — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:12:02 +0000

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By: Robyn Tippins

Robyn Tippins — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:47:39 +0000

You’re completely right on this one. My clients rarely ask for a blog-only anymore. Most ask for a full site that’s integrated with a blog. Blogs are still big but the fad part is wearing off, and that’s good for all of us.

By: Bob Angus

Bob Angus — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:17:07 +0000

A trend that I see is a greater emphasis on new ways to monetizing their blogs. Whether the goal of getting paid is the primary objective of the site or it is a driver to help one stay committed.

The new methods have to be easy like AdSense. Blog advertising needs to be unobtrusive so as to avoid pissing off loyal readers.

As a result, I can see building separate pages that are clearly designated as marketing/advertising vehicles. For example, a simple price comparison page can be added and populated using a product feed or an app built for an affiliate web service. Disclosure – I work for CJ and we have a product search web service that one can use to build such an app.

By: TJP

TJP — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:02:34 +0000

I think mobile web is definitely part of the blogging revolution. Can you imagine the possibilities with new gadgets like the Apple iPhone? People can access your site whenever they please.

The downside is that many blogs will be incompatible with mobile web because their XHTML markup contains many errors. So bloggers will need to validate their XHTML so their sites can be easily viewed on mobile browsers.

I use W3C validator to make sure my code is validate. Here’s the link:
http://validator.w3.org/

And hopefully with the new vista system, Microsoft will update Internet Explorer, so it performs with the likes of Safari, Mozilla, etc.

That way, our blogs will look pristine on any and every platform.

By: jhay

jhay — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:06:14 +0000

Yup, blogs would join in with the other sites since some experts have said that the blogosphere has just passed the peak of growing and things would level out in 2007. Or so they say…

By: More Merchant

More Merchant — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:49:28 +0000

Blooging is changing and quick. We are pusing into video blogging more and more and our viewers are appreciating the effort.

We have been working with forums more and more as well, but have not yet figured out the best way as of yet.

By: Tom Furman

Tom Furman — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:38:55 +0000

Freshness in blogs is more about the creativity of the owner and not “how many resources” are at his hands. E-Books are just an extension of good writing and powerful content. The will be a component of,..and not a replacement for other forms of income for bloggers.

By: Indratno

Indratno — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:13:45 +0000

Blogs will dominate the internet. This year it seems that the thing goes all the way round. Last year many money makers push their profit up using blogs. Bloggers may now realize that they have left those big bucks on the table. Bloggers will still use the culture of conversation to monetize their blogs. That means they won't just copy and posted sales pages to their blogs. They utilize the most of this culture to educate and promote their products. A good example of this manner is the blog of James Brausch. www.jamesbrausch.com. He explain all of his product and creation on his blog without being trapped in migrating sales pages to blog posts. Meanwhile, sales pages of his products or creations always done in less than legal length and quite straight forward. For example is his free site promoter software at http://www.sitepromotepro.com

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:02:18 +0000

Dead on about blogs integrating the characteristics of other more traditional websites. With thousands of new blogs being started every day (even though most of them are abandoned shortly after), those who stay in the game definitely see the value of expanding beyond a format used by every other competitor in their market in order to differentiate and pull ahead.