Comments on: Ten Ways to Keep Technology Savvy Readers Engaged and Coming Back for More

By: Free puppy training

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:01:59 +0000

Awesome article! I just started a tech-centered blog less than a month ago, and all of these tips will come in handy.

I think my biggest (fear?) issue is that I don’t want to seem pretentious… or try to write articles that are too big for my britches. I think I’m going to try staying with more broad, introductory topics. We’ll see how things go from there.

Thanks for this post!

By: Web site promotions firm

Web site promotions firm — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:01:38 +0000

Thanks Dareen.Its really very helpful stuff for blogger.Keep on posting such a good stuff.

By: Scott Mahler

Scott Mahler — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:30:26 +0000

Thanks for so many helpful hints, I especially like the one about mind mapping! It can be difficult at times to come up with a different angle that will keep your audience coming back for me, and this helps widen the scope of ideas. The one thing I have found fascinating and frustrating is the fact that people have so many different opinions when it comes to technology. I guesse that’s a good thing, and what keeps technology rolling on.

http://www.datexmedia.wordpress.com

By: ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

ATLANTA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:07:52 +0000

MIND MAPPING…..hear, hear for thinker toys

By: uwak

uwak — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:36:04 +0000

very useful tips….. thanks for nice information

By: Daniel Anderson

Daniel Anderson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:21:54 +0000

Hey Darren

When have you written about outputting MySQL query results to an XML file from the command prompt ? I would like to read that……

By: Robert "Butch" Greenawalt

Robert "Butch" Greenawalt — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:35:33 +0000

“Agreed ” especially regarding point #2. When I think about how quickly and often some of our partners Nvidia, Cisco and Asus for examples are capable of development of new products. It boggles the mind how anyone can keep up without using past information to promote the benefits of the new products. I personally would prefer not to not have to leverage the work of others and promote everything as new,fresh and my own, but is that a realistic and achievable goal?

By: charles palma

charles palma — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:08:41 +0000

These are useful things we should learn to use. Technology is growing so fast that people’s demand fluctuates and doesn’t have a regular state or condition.

By: Soso

Soso — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:39:18 +0000

So true and useful. Thanks again for such a well written post. Its very educational.

By: David

David — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:56:54 +0000

Hello Darren, I just want to thank you for sharing your insights about blogging and what it takes to be successful. As a new blogger, I am learning the hard way at times, and it is great to have a resource such as yours to provide much needed guidance and direction.

Happy Holidays,

David
Energybloggers.com

By: Millard

Millard — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:14:06 +0000

Although my digital photography blog is somewhat slanted to be non-technological for the beginner to intermediate photographer I can see that I have ample need to learn more and post more about photoshop and digital imaging from a more technological standpoint.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:07:03 +0000

Number 7 is key. This is probably the reason that I don’t put much stock in many company blogs. (ie. if they have a product to sell)

By: rick

rick — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:38:21 +0000

Great post as always, Darren. I might suggest that in addition to creating a well written and researched technology article, you may attract an even larger readership by a) not talking over the majority of your audience’s heads ( which addresses your #4)..most people can quickly ascertain the intelligence level of a writer, so watch the heavy-handed serving of “me smart” writing… and b) be interesting,,,Even techno-geeks can be put to sleep with dry material….Liberal use of bulleted lists is always nice, as is a touch of humor, not overboard, but enough to fight back the eyelids…rick

By: Tim Bowden

Tim Bowden — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:55:10 +0000

This post could not have come a better time for me. I run a technology related blog with very few competitors but since the middle of last month my visitors stats have dropped dramatically and I can not for the life of me work out why. Some of the better blogs in the same vein as mine aren’t even updating as regularly so I can’t imagine they are getting as many visitors. I have added this to my bookmarks and plan on reading it a lot, I have read through it 4 times already.

For me point 3 is the most important to me, and I like 6 and 9. I wholeheartedly agree with

“They are often more critical, not as loyal to a single blog source, and are difficult to keep engaged.”

The amount of new visits against repeat visits in my analytics is amazing!!

Thanks for the post.

By: VeryTechie.com

VeryTechie.com — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:21:55 +0000

Perfect timing for this post! I have just started my tech blog :)

/Patrik

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:30:53 +0000

Thanks Dareen. I like point 6. It’s not only geared to technology blogs, since we can use this point for any niche.

Franck

By: B. Durant

B. Durant — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:51:18 +0000

Great tips. Sometimes technology sites/articles get so deep in details that they lose the wider audience. Sometimes they even lose the tech audience for the same reason.

By: Liz Micik

Liz Micik — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:19:23 +0000

You make some great points, especially about taking a niche that has already been “discovered” and exploring it from a very tightly focused viewpoint. But look at what you said about your own example…green technology. In one sentence you said it was a good area to explore and in the very next sentence you said too much had already been written about it.

If I may presume to read your mind and expand on this a bit, what I think you meant was that too much surface scraping, mind numbing regurgitation of same old, same old has been blogged in this area. (Have I caught the Darren tone?) And I agree fully with that.

But I don’t agree that you have to dig way down deep to find a micro-niche that hasn’t been trounced to death there. I’m just starting to share stories from all the people who are taking matters into their own hands and doing something about creating their own little corner of “green technology” on wemakehybrids.

Today I’m scouting for stories about what people are doing to buy new or convert existing cars to incorporate new technologies. And so far we’ve covered dozens and dozens of unique twists on the “save me money, save the earth” theme you are already calling old hat.

Tomorrow I may be talking about people who are up on their roofs installing solar panels and wind turbines and getting off the grid entirely.

Technology growth is organic and the stories we can tell as bloggers are as numerous and unique as the people who are growing it everyday.

That’s what keeps me going even though there isn’t much “green” in my blog wallet. I thank God technology cynics are also as passionate about their little corner of the subject. I;d be awfully lonely without them

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:04:36 +0000

Once again, original content is what builds a good blog.