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I find myself using more and more for smaller (than usual) blog posts. If I felt like doing something expansive, I'd write it on my blog and add a link to it in
by jdramirez 15y ago
I find myself using more and more for smaller (than usual) blog posts. If I felt like doing something expansive, I'd write it on my blog and add a link to it in G+. Primarily, it's because there is an audience there. The ease of building up networks of circles makes it X times efficient to gain followers of your content.
- alexknight 15y agoFair enough point, but I don't necessarily agree with that view. Why wouldn't you want to focus on building an audience on a site you control? You can link out to Twitter or Google+. Like I said, the short pithy comments have their place too, but for me this strategy is what I prefer. Also, I haven't seen solid evidence that people are building larger audiences on Google+, unless you're someone like Robert Scoble. You have to have an established name in your industry, or at least that's the trend that I've seen thus far.
- akkartik 15y agoI have a blog. I even wrote my own blogging engine. But it's not part of anybody's habits to go to it. Most people don't understand RSS. I could post to my blog and then throw links on G+ (earlier buzz), but the extra friction of clicking on a link caused comments (and therefore, I think, reads) to go down. So I need to put some thought into putting some content next to the link. But at that point the effort suddenly seems prohibitive for a short post. Far simpler just to throw it directly on G+. I've tried twitter, but I don't have many followers and there's just too much attrition due to people just missing my tweets. Friendfeed/buzz/G+ have fewer longer posts, and so there's less churn on people's streams and less attrition. Posting something on them is less meaningless than on Twitter.