Comments on: Reasons You Shouldn’t Be a Blogger

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:13:14 +0000

Ha. Can’t one be both a journalist and a blogger? A “blogalist,” even?

And yes, “snobbery” is a word! Durr…

By: Gary Lee

Gary Lee — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:18:33 +0000

haha . . do I sense an lil bit of journalistic snobbery against bloggers? . . oh wait, is “snobbery” even a word?

By: Gary Lee

Gary Lee — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:16:45 +0000

remember . . it’s all about the delivery

By: Gary Lee

Gary Lee — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:16:12 +0000

I agree with Hannes . . . . I mean, my grammar stinks and I never got anything above a B+ in English Literature in High School . . . as long as you can write in a way where you can convey the message you want to convey, then I think you’ll be all good . . .

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:06:50 +0000

Since I have a journalism background, I think that if you’re going to blog in a given language, you should at least know how to communicate clearly in that language.

Marketers have some of the best blogs out there, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find simple grammar or syntax errors on them.

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:05:51 +0000

Great points Gary, an excellent checklist/flowchart to scope out the potential for integrating blogging into an online marketing campaign.

We actually have a question in our needs analysis document that asks if the company would consider blogging. The response is about 99% yes, but the question after asks if they could dedicate someone to post at least once a week and the answer is about 99% no!

Blogging in my opinion offers some of the highest ROI when it comes to promotion due to the relative minimum investment required (only time). Most people fail to measure the ROI from their blog or even see it as investment.

I’ll be stealing some of your points…verbatim.

By: Hannes Johnson

Hannes Johnson — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:09:06 +0000

I don’t think grammar and spelling is that vital. If the content is good and people can (easily) understand what you’re trying to say then I think it shouldn’t hold you back. Like Jez says, John Chow is a great example

By: Jez

Jez — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:35:50 +0000

John Chows grammer isn’t great… I read a lot of blogs by Eastern European’s / Latin American’s, their English is not great either… it really depends on the topic, and how well the author knows it… but I suppose if your talking about promoting a native-English speaking business then your statement is broadly true….

By: Mobile Notary

Mobile Notary — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:12:12 +0000

How are you writing skills? Is an excellent question. If you don’t know how to use proper grammar then take a class or don’t blog.

By: Jez

Jez — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:34:30 +0000

Dont blog if you cant keep your mouth shut!

Think that is my biggest problem… has got me into scrapes a couple of times and probably held me back…