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Building a Better Blog Foundation with Aggregation
Linda discusses the answer and some ways to build a better blog for that foundation.
Over the past few weeks, Linda has provided explanations about various social networking tools and has provided a list or two of social networking platforms for designers and developers. But, what about your blog? Is it dead in the water, or should you make that blog the foundation of your social media tower? In this article, Linda discusses the answer and some ways to build a better blog for that foundation.
Conclusion
The Web is just what Tim Berners-Lee wanted it to be at the moment - a powerful force for social change and individual creativity. Commercialization of the Web has led to working for the holy grail – traffic. If you provide information that is valuable to others and if you present it in a pleasing, usable and accessible format, and if you ride the new wave of aggregation...you might have the best of both worlds.
In other words, if you have a blog, consider it your foundation for a social media tower, much like a radio or cell phone tower or a Tower of Babel if you want to go all mythical on me. This is just a visual concept, though – visualizing your blog as a rock-solid foundation for the tools you can lay on top of it. Any tool, such as linking to more information, aligning yourself with Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, and providing great content, will work as those building blogs.
Hang tight – in the next article, I'll bring you many more links that can help you streamline your aggregate process without stomping on copyright or ethical rights and that may take you head and shoulders above your competition.
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.