Comments on: Chamber’s Forum 2.0 http://blog.lakelandchamber.com/2008/06/chambers-forum-20/ Lakeland, a true sense of place Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:15:11 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: R. Lawson http://blog.lakelandchamber.com/2008/06/chambers-forum-20/comment-page-1/#comment-8 R. Lawson Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:11:42 +0000 http://blog.lakelandchamber.com/?p=34#comment-8 It's interesting what factors lead to a more popular blog. I think that there is a huge interest in this, but still questions remain in how to make it viable. I have been active in a political blog - www.raisingkaine.com. Not that I am trying to share/sell you on my politics here, but if you go to the blog you will see some factors that make it successful. First, the blog allows for guest bloggers. There are threaded replies to posts. It becomes a community blog site - gaining large numbers of visitors. You can apply the same concepts and make the chamber's blog a success. As an example, I started a blog on PolkVoice. PolkVoice is a great site to cross post - given that my interests include doing business in Polk County. However, only a fraction of visitors to the PolkVoice site are interested in business related topics. The vast majority of the visitors to the Chamber's blog are interested in business related matters. So, imho it makes sense for the chamber to setup a blogging solution that allows other local business people to host their blogs here. What's in it for you? Advertising revenues. Also, it will result in much more activity because it will involve many more people/companies. And many of us will all have RSS feeds on our website so it will grown exponentially. Here is a free blogging solution that RK uses: http://www.soapblox.net/blog/frontPage.do It’s interesting what factors lead to a more popular blog. I think that there is a huge interest in this, but still questions remain in how to make it viable. I have been active in a political blog – http://www.raisingkaine.com. Not that I am trying to share/sell you on my politics here, but if you go to the blog you will see some factors that make it successful.

First, the blog allows for guest bloggers. There are threaded replies to posts. It becomes a community blog site – gaining large numbers of visitors. You can apply the same concepts and make the chamber’s blog a success.

As an example, I started a blog on PolkVoice. PolkVoice is a great site to cross post – given that my interests include doing business in Polk County. However, only a fraction of visitors to the PolkVoice site are interested in business related topics.

The vast majority of the visitors to the Chamber’s blog are interested in business related matters. So, imho it makes sense for the chamber to setup a blogging solution that allows other local business people to host their blogs here. What’s in it for you? Advertising revenues. Also, it will result in much more activity because it will involve many more people/companies. And many of us will all have RSS feeds on our website so it will grown exponentially.

Here is a free blogging solution that RK uses: http://www.soapblox.net/blog/frontPage.do

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