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How Blogging Has Changed Over The Last 3 Years (Stats)
Perhaps most significantly, blog posts now have a longer life span. In 2007 tracked posts saw 94% of engagement within the first day and 98% of that first day's engagement happened within the first hour. In 2008 that number fell to 83% within the first day and in 2009 it was a mere 64%. Thus Postrank concludes that 36% of reader engagement in the top blogs happens after 1 day.
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world. For them, writing is about persuading and organizing and debating, even if it's over something as quotidian as what movie to go see. The Stanford students were almost always less enthusiastic about their in-class writing because it had no audience but the professor: It didn't serve any purpose other than to get them a grade.
Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors
The data was crystal clear: Companies that blog have far better marketing results. Specifically, the average company that blogs has:
* 55% more visitors
* 97% more inbound links
* 434% more indexed pages
50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don’t come overnight, and they require patience and determination. You have to work smart and hard to acquire them. Only with experience, you can enter the realm of effective, always-in-demand writers.
Gartner Hype Cycle 2008 on Flickr
Egham, UK, August 11, 2008 - Gartner, Inc. has identified 27 emerging technologies and predicts that eight of these will have a transformational business impact and should be strongly considered for adoption by technology planners in the next 10 years, according to the report "Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008". Although Web 2.0 is now entering the Trough of Disillusionment, it will emerge within two years to have transformational impact, as companies steadily gain more experience and success with both the technologies and the cultural implications," said Jackie Fenn, vice president and Gartner Fellow.
Cloud computing — As companies seek to consume their IT services in the most cost-effective way, interest is growing in drawing a broad range of services (for example, computational power, storage and business applications) from the "cloud," rather than from on-premises equipment. Many types of technology providers are aligning themselves with this trend, with the result that confusion and hype will continue for at least another year before distinct submarkets and market leaders emerge.
Social computing platforms — Following the phenomenal success of consumer-oriented social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, companies are examining the role that these sites, or their enterprise-grade equivalents, will play in future collaboration environments. The scope is also expanding to incorporate the notion of social "platforms," or environments for a broad range of developers to build on the basic application.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=739613
e20 Global Community Blogs / Enterprise 2.0 Global Community
List of bloggers focused on Enterprise 2.0.
What would you want to read about on a Web 2.0 Marketing Blog?
Good thoughts on blog content.
Techmeme @ 10:45 AM ET, April 8, 2008
Post from I'm Not Actually a Geek lands on Techmeme: "When Your Blog Is LouisGrayCrunched..."
Techmeme: Five More Blogs You Should Be Reading, But Aren't (louisgray.com)
Louis Gray's post on 5 blogs you should read on Techmeme.
louisgray.com: Five More Blogs You Should Be Reading, But Aren't: Silicon Valley Blog
5 small-time blogs that Louis Gray finds interesting.
The First 20 Blog Posts Are the Easiest « I’m Not Actually a Geek
Reflections of a new blogger on content, marketing your blog and blog ettiquette.
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