The majority of blogs are text-based. You can make your blog more creative and interesting with the effective use of photos, graphics, audio and/or video content. Some cool tools to consider using for adding multi-media content to your blog:
- Flickr – for photo storing and sharing. Flickr has a built-in blog feature that allows me to upload a photo to my Typepad blog.
- You Tube – Upload and share your videos. Easily upload and embed video to your blog
Specialty blogs include:
* Art (Artlog) - Post art work in a blog format – “can consist of any type of visual/audio Art such as: images, music, sketches, drawings, paintings, photos, videos, CG, etc.”
* Photos (Photoblog) – Posting and sharing photos
* Audio (Podcasts) – You can upload an audio file (MP3) to your blog or go to the next level with Podcasting. A podcast allows a listener to subscribe to your series of audio or video recordings through an RSS feed and download to their IPOD or MP3 player.
* Video (VLOG) – You Tube, and BLIP.tvare popular platforms.
Once you have your blog started there are numerous forms or types of blog posts to consider. You might post:
- Your opinion, thoughts, rants, raves on a particular subject
- Links to other blogs or websites with your commentary
- Your review of an article, book, website, etc
- Informational content (Realtors might post about their local market conditions, real estate news, neighborhoods, new communities or projects and other relevant content.)
- Interviews or profiles
- Informative, how-to, or instructional content on a subject
Darren Rowse of Problogger.net discusses 20 Types of Blog Posts and battling bloggers block in this post. Also from Problogger: 7 Types of Blog Posts which always seem to get links and traffic
Also check out The 25 Basic Styles of Blogging…And When to Use Each One for more ideas.
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