Senin, 22 Oktober 2012

Understand How To Write The Best Hip Hop Blog

By Mamie Conrad


For the past ten years, blogging has grown from a new and exciting idea to one of the mainstream means of communication over the internet. Every internet user knows about blogs and a large percentage of these either subscribe to a blog or run one themselves. If you have an interest in hip hop and you want to start blogging, your aim must be to create the best hip hop blog in the market. To do this, you should understand a few things about blogging.

One major element that all readers adhere to, consciously or unconsciously, is consistency and style. It is the link between the writer and the reader. Being personal, the style and tone of blogs play a major role in how readership is formed and developed. It is not as easy as people think to write about something personal, so the style you adopt matters greatly.

A blog is not a piece of academic work. It is a form of conversation that has been moved to the internet, to a wider audience. Being a blogger, you have to write as though you were speaking to people in a room. Imagine how you want to sound to those people and then write what in your blog. Practice by speaking aloud first before you put pen to paper.

The best blogs are those that are frequently updated. Hip hop in particular is a fast changing and fast moving area so you have to make sure you stay abreast with information and post it to your material as soon as you can. If you post information that is stale or does not add value to your listeners, you will not get a wide readership. Your blog becomes stale.

A good way to update it and keep it fresh is to have it at the back of your mind all the time. Some bloggers have even developed the habit of carrying notebooks and pens so when there is something new to be written, they note it down to be updated later. Although you are mostly presenting factual material, blogs are about expressing personal opinion so in your updates keep it as personal as possible.

Another way to keep the blog fresh is to run the article with a friend or co-writer. This could be one person or a group of people with similar ideas. This will take care of those times where you are too busy to write the material or you need a second perspective to your material. It is not considered unprofessional to do this. If anything, it is quite to the contrary.

Be consistent when updating the blog. If your readers expect a new post every fortnight, week, day, month or quarter, make sure they get a new posting when the time comes. Bloggers should develop the good habit of routine. Readers appreciate that and will take your blog to be a serious one.

Another very important component to creating the best hip hop blog is to allow comments. Internet users tend to be very tough, abusive and quick to judge and comment. This, however, must not act as a deterrent. You should also respond to as many comments as you can.




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