Blogs in Plain English

I'm a recent subscriber to Common Craft's blog and wanted to share this 3 minute video they produced. They have a number of other YouTube type videos that would be useful in introducing Web 2.0 topics to newbies.

Web analytics expert gives blogging tips

Avinash Kaushik author of Occam's Razor updated his top ten tips for novice bloggers.

Summary

If are trying to create a blog that will create your unique brand, build an audience over time and create a voice for yourself then here are my recommendations:

# 10: Names, URL’s, Looks, Your Pictures Don’t Matter

# 9: Join BAGoT: Bloggers Against Globs of Text

# 8: Go for 6th grade level

# 7: Length and Frequency: Yours to define and control

# 6: StumbleUpon, Twitter, Google (SEO) matter, Digg matters less

# 5: Read spectacular blogs, find inspiration

# 4: Become very good (top 25% in the world) at two things

# 3: Don’t be a jerk / jerkess

# 2: Cultivate your audience: Create a dialog, respect their intelligence

# 1: Be remarkable

For more details go to directly to Occam's Razor