A collaborative blog is social media
if you use it that way
Updated 12/262018
Collaborative blogs could replace some of the functions of G+ and do a better job of it.
Old fashioned collaboration
A collaborative blog
- Has one owner and multiple contributors.
- Contributors may act as authors, editors, and promoters.
- Editors bring in guest articles from their contacts.
- Promoters repost articles on other social media outlets.
Advantages of a blog
- Persistent and searchable.
- Can carry post buttons for Facebook, and other social media.
- Keeps the focus on a topic of interest.
- You can let anyone leave comments on an article.
- You can collect comments on a specific topic and post them in a new article
Advantages of a collaborative blog
- More frequent publication gets more views.
- Multiple contributors promote more widely.
- Multiple contributors give a better representation of the community.
- Multiple contributors give wider coverage.
- Multiple contributors ensure continuity.
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- MUVE (virtual world) weekly update 11/22/2018
- #socialmedia #virtualworld #MUVE #hypergrid
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Blogging
- Articles about blogging in this blog
- The whys and hows of blogging
- You can put ads on your blog and make a little money.
Build a blog
- Build an effective community blog for 3D virtual worlds
- One person starts a blog and invites other authors
- Community blogging your virtual world
- A dozen+ tips for building your blog about virtual worlds
- Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds
- Join "Jwheels Recommends" to promote your events. Invitation from Jamie Jordan
- Focus on a specific interest area or community.
- Get enough contributors to post several times a week (at least).
- Mention the focus in the name of the blog.
Make a blog useful and interesting
- This blog is curated: How to use search to find things. Digital smarts
- If you want people to talk about your blog, don't lock them out
- Collaborators make comments
- Collaborators respond to comments.
- Give your blog article a search description, teaser, or other short promotion
- How to search this blog for what interests you
Promote your blog on social media
- Post a notice of each article on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
- A blog should automatically carry share buttons for Twitter and Facebook
- Blogger blogs offer the share options upper left under More
- In Facebook, share in appropriate groups.
- In LinkedIn, share in appropriate categories.
- Do not scatter-spam.
Promote search on your blog
- How to search this blog for what interests you
- This blog is curated: How to use search to find things. Digital smarts
- SEO tips for promoting your virtual community (Not how to cheat with SEO)
Put an explicit license statement on the blog
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License
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- Original text in this blog is CC By: unless specified public domain
- Use as you please with attribution: link to the original.
- All images without attribution in this blog are CC0: public domain.
Join a cross-promotion network: Blogroll
- Put a blogroll on your blog.
- This blog carries a blogroll in the right-hand column (scroll down).
- This blogroll links to 137 other blogs; some of them link back to this blog.
- The linked blogs relate to topics appearing in this blog.
- If I know about a blog appropriate for my blogroll, I will add it.
- The 25 most recent posts are listed; the posts stay up for about a week.
- The blogs posting most frequently get the most exposure.
Managing the reiterations
- This blog carries two blocks of text that are repeated on every post.
- The contents change from time to time, but not daily.
- They carry links that some people may want some (unpredictable) day.
- I keep them with my drafts and copy/paste them into articles ready to post.
Example of collaborative blogging
Jwheels recommends
- Join "Jwheels Recommends" to promote events. Invitation from Jamie Jordan
- Jwheels Recommends promotes entertainment in the virtual worlds.
- Performers can promote their performances.
- Venues can promote their events.
- Event managers can promote the events they manage.
- Grids can promote their events
- All of the above can promote their services
More: TBD
Blogs of interest in Virtual Worlds
- See the right column of this page for my blogroll
- Top 50 Virtual Reality Blogs, Websites & Newsletters To Follow in 2018
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