With so many publishing formats, I just haven't been able to figure out how to bring the brand together (that sounds pompous, until you consider that by brand, I don't mean just some kind of superficial persona but your points of intersection with the world.
Could we say that what separates a cheese sandwich blog from a blog about cheese sandwiches is in the first blog, the writer is the only theme and in the second, the theme is something external? Is that the key to effective blogging - something besides yourself to consistently write about?
I mean, here's the list and this is hardly exhaustive. BTW, I like table formatting and table support is a big piece of shoe in Blogger so this table will probably look bad.
Format | What readers look for | Example item |
---|---|---|
What you're doing | I'm at a conference | |
Who knows what you're doing | I went to a conference and my mom hit the like button | |
What the thing you did looks like | Here's a picture from the conference. | |
Metafilter | Why you did what you did | The history of this conference from the beginning of time, similar conferences, this thing that sort of inspired the conference |
Things other people are doing | What did you think of the conference? | |
Brand You Blog | How you did what you did | A presentation you gave, or commentary on presentation given by someone else. |
What you really think | I would have rather stayed home. |