I got an email today, it read “I love this blog thing, pls how can I have something like this? How will i be able to attract people to my blog?” My reply has turned into this post. Please join the conversation if you have more tips.
- Start simple. Register with one of the free blog providers like blogger or worpress. This means you don’t have to worry any of the technical wits of setting up the blog.
- Focus on a few topics. No point repeating BBC news every time. Try to put an angle on the news. Your audience will be interested in what you think. Take Bella Naija for example, she focuses on African fashion, Naija music and celebrities.
- Do your research. This is important. Don’t write stuff you can’t back up. You’ll quickly lose credibility. Chippla does his research and it reflects when he writes.
- Read other blogs and be inspired. Contribute comments to posts on those blogs.
- Join webrings or groups of common interest. e.g Nigerian Bloggers and 9rules
- If you think others will find your post useful, post it on Digg or Muti.
Keeping writing, someday someone will realise how amazing your blog is and you will be popular.
— Picturing Nigeria “is a photographic exploration of Nigerian cities, initiated to display everyday life and everyday sights of Nigeria”. The site is also available in Yoruba. (4)
— Nigerian Blogs Aggregator; A blog aggregator providng feeds from Nigerian blogs
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Everyday I find that the need to download music from p2p decreases due to the amount of quality online radio stations, however the recent increase in the number of music blog has also provided an opportunity to listen to new and old music alike without worrying about some music authority coming around to Lewisham. Ofcourse the right thing to do after listening to the music, if you do like it is buy it to show your support to the artist. You could imagine my joy when I found Tofuhut ’s long list of MP3 weblogs arranged alphabetically by genre.
A quick look and I found two interesting blogs; honeysoul (also has some radioblogs which includes Maxwell, Dwele, Erykah Badu, Raheem Devaughn and complied jazz collections) and Quietfm.
Often the catch with most of these sites is that the music is only available for a week or so from date of upload.
— Timbuktu Chronicles by Emeka Okafor; a view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and technology #
— Warwick Blogs; How cool is that! I wish Imperial College would do the same. #
100 things we didn’t know this time last year; Brussels sprouts have 3 times as much vitamin C as oranges.
Found this nice Innovation Weblog.
Why do record companies release artist albums on Tuesdays? because sales figures are released on Mondays
