Blogs are a form of regularly-updated website that shows articles in a reverse-chronological order. A blog can be part of how you communicate with a community, or the blog can be a community in its own right.
Common features and patterns
- Group blogs are blogs with multiple authors
- Most blogs support Blog comments. Some blogs institute a Comment policy
- Blog Aggregation can help bring blogs together, or expose a blog to a wider audience. Planets are a popular way to do this.
- There are a variety of Blog software platforms available
- Blog metrics help you understand your blog's reach etc.
Best practices
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- It's generally best to update blogs regularly, to maintain reader interest. At least once a week should be a minimum, and daily (or more) is best if you want to build a strong following and community.
- Make sure you provide an RSS feed so that people can subscribe to your blog via a feed reader, Aggregation facility, etc.
- RSS feeds for comments are also very useful
- Allow comments. Blogs which do not allow comments do not build community.
Further reading
- Blog on Wikipedia
See also
- Microblogging
- Social media