TIPS FOR BLOGGERS

Avinash Kausnik [Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA] has a great post on things he has learned as a blogger. Here are the ten tips, but go to the post to read the details and some comments.
1. Nobody cares about you, they care about what you can do for them.
2. Have a personality, reflect your core beliefs, be honest, have fun.
3. Blogging is a very serious time commitment.
4. Pick a subject matter you are passionate about and that you are good at.
5. Respect the intelligence of your audience.
6. Blogs need constant promotion, participation and evangelism.
7. Being “digg’ed” is great exposure but traffic builds gradually over time, one person at a time.
8. Have goals, whatever you want them to be.
9. Be nice, save your hidden agendas for other uses.
10. Nobody will read my blog.

URL: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2006/10/top-ten-blogging-tips-
insights-from-a-novice-blogger.html