The Effects of Blogging and Technology in Life’s Experiences and Decision Making
I have been a blogger for more than two years now but it was only less than half a year that I became a serious blogger. I have always considered myself a novice in blogging but I must admit, I have come a long way since the day I owned the domain Marikenya and started journaling my experiences in Marikina and everything else that I believe matters.
When I started, HTML codes and SEO terms were really alien to me. Whenever I would encounter and would helplessly understand them, I nosebleed. Blogging opened a whole new world to me. It made me understand the language of technology. It made me discover and enjoy what used to be gray areas of struggling for page rank, increasing traffic and alexa ranking, social marketing, finding niches for monetization, etc…
I now understand the importance of blogs in helping people to cope and learn online. Why blogs like http://www.stylishdesign.com/ helps people comprehend with complicated programming language and provide tutorial and tips on how to improve the layout and design of one’s website. No wonder blogging is now considered a popular tool in promoting advocacies, spreading rumors, or simply journaling an unimportant event of the day.
A friend of mine started a contest entitled “How Blogging Can Change The World” and as for me, I need not go global to see and feel the effect (or influence) of blogging in making critical decisions in one’s life. For instance, a friend of mine declined an scholarship program abroad thinking that he wouldn’t be able to manage his blogs if he go. I, on the other hand, decided not to pursue this year my master’s degree because I wanted to spend my free time, from work and other obligations, for Marikenya blog.
Blogging, which used to be a time-consuming hobby, has now evolved as an informations gateway with seemingly limitless possibilities. Let’s look at some of these statistics and facts about blogging from www.movabletype.org:
(Source: PRWeek and Burson-Masteller, 2005; Pew Internet & American Life Project 2005)
* 6 million Americans get their news and information from RSS aggregators
* 59% of CEOs say they find blogs useful for internal communications
(Source: JupiterResearch consumer survey, June 2005)
* 47% of CEOs find blogs useful for external communications
* 11% of the US population as a whole read blogs
(Source: Backbone Media Business Blogging Survey, 2005)
* 83% of corporate bloggers saw a traffic increase to their site
* 51% took less than 1-2 months from initial concept to launch of blog
* 88% saw a boost in search engine ranking within 3 months of launch
* 62% saw an increase in sales within 3 months of launch
(Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project)
* Blog readership is growing among all demographics
* Blog readership jumped 58% in 2004, from 17% to 27% of Internet users who said they read blogs daily
* 69% of teens have shared content of your own creation, like drawings, stories, photos, or videos
* 35% of teens have remixed content that you found online like images, songs, or video into their own artistic creation
* 58% of teens have created a personal webpage
* 61% have created or worked on a webpage for a friend, a group they were part of, or for a school project (71% download music)
* 12% of users are aware of RSS, and 4% have knowingly used RSS.
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