Over the last week I have been dabbling into cyberspace looking at multiple different blogs that were recommended to me. Among my favorites were PR-Squared.com, MPdailyfix.com and sethgodin.typepad.com. All three of these blogs captured me with with their layouts, and easy to read postings. They all managed to maintain readability even though the information being conveyed was strictly professional.
PR-Squared, a blog written by Todd Defren was my favorite, because even though the author is a a global innovator of social media and public relations he managed to keep humor and sarcasm in his writing to make it seem more down to earth. Also, the format was entertaining and he offered pictures to demonstrate what he was talking about.It is very likely that I will continue to use and read this blog, because I found myself highly informed of various marketing techniques which could in turn be useful to me in the professional world.
Another entertaining and interesting concept in a blog was Mpdailyfix.com. Mpdailyfix is a blog ran by marketing professionals and contributors that give actionable how-to's to help anyone better market their product or service. I liked this blog because it ranged widely in information, and is written by many different contributors. The format also was laid out nice, I could easily find where I wanted to go. Also, if anyone likes a particular contributors blog posts more than others, all of the writers have links down the right hand side to navigate to just their posts quickly and easily. This blog would be extremely helpful to me someday to learn how to market a product better.
The third and final blog I found entertaining was Seth Godin's blog. Godin is a best selling author and famous man in the marketing industry. He offers witty blog posts about starting your own business, and he answers questions that most people think about but do not know the correct answer too. Overall his blog is him being him. He does not try to make it sound professional. In any post that I read of his it sounded like I was the one writing it, and I loved that about him. I think I would also like to keep reading his blog just for the knowledge he gives out in his posts. When I saw him post about political tv advertisements I was immediately drawn in. Those ads drive me nuts before elections, but I did not know they were a marketing strategy to get people not to vote until I read his blog.
The reason I chose these three blogs to read over many of the others was because I related to them. If I am going to sit down and read other peoples opinions I want to relate to them most of all. Secondly, they were easy to navigate through. Most of the ones I chose to read were ones that I could scroll down to keep reading, instead of just looking at blogs that had links to other websites every other sentence.
I gained a lot out of the experience of looking at others blogs, and many of them I will continue to periodically check out again.
