A blog critique, new media junkies and the second Birmingham Bloggers Meet

Last week proved interesting, firstly I took up an offer by Rhett Soveran of Epiblogger; Rhett was looking for willing bloggers to have their posts critiqued for upcoming posts on writing samples. I obliged his offer and my post ‘Social media transparency pitfalls for businesses’ was selected. Rhett put together ‘Blogging in the Microwave Age’ which is a very interesting read on fragmentation of posts and he showed some insights into my blog post structures that I didn’t even realise I was doing but are working well from what I hear. I leave bite sized chunks to reel in the readers and progressively lengthen the paragraphs as I reach the conclusion. This may be because I spend a lot of time reading usability expert, Jakob Nielsens’ approach to writing for the web. In my opinion he is the authority on the subject and his insights are ground breaking. I could write a whole post on this so I will leave it for a day when I wish to do exactly that. Other influences are probably from reporters and news reports where the inverted pyramid style is used; the article is explained in the first few lines and then more and more detail is added to the background of the story the further you read. Anyone dropping out half way down the page already has all the detail they need. I would like to thank Rhett for a glowing write up.

Secondly I co-presented the second edition of Mark Steadman’s New Media Junkie podcast. As I said in an earlier post I won’t give the game away by telling you everything that happens but just as a very brief run-down we chew the fat on, well, fat people, death and chavs. This will, I hope, be a regular occurrence so subscribe and listen to Mark’s masterful ability.

Tonight is the second Birmingham Bloggers Meet or we may call it the first Birmingham Social Media Cafe (yet to be decided). It is taking place at 7pm onwards at the Dragon Inn, Hurst Street, Birmingham with an open invitation for all that wish to attend. I will be giving a rundown of what is discussed tomorrow. Until then…

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