Blogging, Leyte, Leyte Blog Network, Philippine Websites, Social Networking
- Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 0 comments
Anti-Social Philippine Websites
I've been heavily experimenting on social networking these past few weeks with very encouraging results. If you're a social networking or search engine optimization genius, this post is probably not for you. Laymen or everyjuans, however, are very welcome and I encourage you to either react or contribute to this short blog posting.
Going back to the encouraging results: At the moment, I'm using two social networking platforms. The first one, Twitter, has been active for quite some time, but it is only now that I'm tapping its resources to market not only one of my blogs, MMOtaku, but also the network that it belongs to, b5media.
The second one is Facebook. It's a bit more on the personal side but serves the purpose of publicizing content to a wider audience. The problem with my experiment on Facebook, though, is that all blog entries that I share on the wall are shared only to friends and family, all 300-plus of them, so it's a little difficult to gauge if it's having any impact on traffic for the blog. This is why I have decided to create a fan page for MMOtaku, although it isn't active yet.
Now, what's with the title? Recently, I've created a new blog called Leyte Blog Network, which is destined to be an anchor blog for several of my blogs and, hopefully, a few more blogs owned and edited by residents of this southern Philippine province. I also want it to be an aggregator of news and features about Leyte.
With this in mind, after writing the customary welcome post for Leyte Blog Network, I started searching for worthy news to place on the blog. What I found was discouraging. Most news sites, even those owned and managed by large media organizations or the Philippine government, do not present ways on how to share content.
In today's fast-paced, information-driven world, websites and blogs should be equipped with such a feature if they are to compete for the people's attention. Sure, some content may be up for sale, but this shouldn't be a hindrance. Instead, it should be viewed as the ultimate marketing tool for this day and age.
AddThis seems a great way to share content on the Internet.
Going back to the encouraging results: At the moment, I'm using two social networking platforms. The first one, Twitter, has been active for quite some time, but it is only now that I'm tapping its resources to market not only one of my blogs, MMOtaku, but also the network that it belongs to, b5media.
The second one is Facebook. It's a bit more on the personal side but serves the purpose of publicizing content to a wider audience. The problem with my experiment on Facebook, though, is that all blog entries that I share on the wall are shared only to friends and family, all 300-plus of them, so it's a little difficult to gauge if it's having any impact on traffic for the blog. This is why I have decided to create a fan page for MMOtaku, although it isn't active yet.
Now, what's with the title? Recently, I've created a new blog called Leyte Blog Network, which is destined to be an anchor blog for several of my blogs and, hopefully, a few more blogs owned and edited by residents of this southern Philippine province. I also want it to be an aggregator of news and features about Leyte.
With this in mind, after writing the customary welcome post for Leyte Blog Network, I started searching for worthy news to place on the blog. What I found was discouraging. Most news sites, even those owned and managed by large media organizations or the Philippine government, do not present ways on how to share content.
In today's fast-paced, information-driven world, websites and blogs should be equipped with such a feature if they are to compete for the people's attention. Sure, some content may be up for sale, but this shouldn't be a hindrance. Instead, it should be viewed as the ultimate marketing tool for this day and age.
AddThis seems a great way to share content on the Internet.
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