Blog management

To have a blog that is useful and interesting takes a lot of work. The best way to handle the work load associated with a blog is to come up with a strategy to manage the blog. The first thing to do is to decide what the intended purpose of your blog is, mine would be to provide a place for my students to come to learn more or discuss their thoughts about a specific topic and it would also be a place where parents could look to see examples of their kids work. Next the individual in charge of the blog needs to establish a time when they will be able to sit down and work on the blog, doing things like adding posts, responding to other comments, and grading any assignment that the students may have posted.

Another important part in managing a blog is learning to use the tools that are available to blogger that help them keep things straight. Tools like the RSS feed option that will notify the blogger of any updates or new posts to their blog or other’s blogs or websites which they are following. Google reader is another good tool to use in blog management; it allows the blogger to read new content as it is being published on your blog. These are but a small sample of the tools available to blogger.

The blogger must know their audience in order to effectively manage their blog. This is important because by knowing their audience the blogger can publish posts that are going to engage their audience and keep them returning to the blog in the future. So it is important in blog management to understand what the audience likes and by doing this the blogger can stay up to date on the subject which their audience seems to enjoy and can publish posts regularly and it a style that the audience seems to respond too.

Managing a blog is a very intensive process and what that is made more manageable by knowing your audience, learning to use the available tools, and by having a clear purpose for the blog.