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Blogging Ain’t Dead; It’s Just Getting Started

As I write this, I’m sitting in a laundromat, waiting on clothes to get done. And I’m not typing from a laptop either: This entire post is being done on a Blackberry.

Thanks to WordPress for Blackberry (which is also available for many other mobile platforms), it’s possible to create content virtually anywhere. We live in a super connected world and where Social Media is ruling the web, mobile is ruling how we connect to that web.

Just a couple live shows ago, I mentioned a plugin called WordPress Mobile Edition. With millions upon millions of people consuming content via their mobile phones, it’s a no brainer to take advantage of it by making your content easily readable on mobile phones.

Now, we’ve all heard one too many times that blogging is dead. The blogging world that I see is far from dead. Maybe their strategies and how their sites look, feel, and what makes them what they are happen to be old/”dead”, but it ain’t dead.

If blogging is dead, I’m the sexiest most richest person alive. Heck, maybe they’re just using that “blogging is dead” word to get some views.

Or even maybe they say that and write about it because their blog/s are failing. That’s not good enough reason.

Throughout all society and nature, changes have come about that have required entire species to adapt or die.

Blogging is far from dead. There are great changes and mobile access is just one of them. If you want to whine, bitch, complain, and get your pannies in a bunch over the platform “dying”, so be it.

Just keep it to yourself and let the real hustlers get to work.

“What do you think about this blogging is dead nonsense?”

By the way, today as some of you know is Social Media Monday, a weekly episode I do on HotBlogTips.com and today’s topic is pretty big, and EXTREMELY important. Make sure to watch this week’s episode right here.

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jennalanger moderator

I don't think blogging will ever die. Maybe it won't be called blogging anymore, but if blogging dies, journalism dies, and free speech dies. Maybe it will go on the opposite order, but I don't see that day coming any time soon (although sadly this is the case in other countries). Maybe we won't open our web browser to get the content, but the content is still what we are looking for.

mikestenger moderator

@jennalanger Have to agree with you Jenna. Blogging won't necessarily die, things will simply change and evolve just like they have with every other platform. And yes, content/information is what we're really after anyways.

KelsiGuidry

Actually, If blogging dies, so will the internet.
I actually think the "Wordpress" platform or something very similar with some tied in social media plugins will one day take over Facebook and all other "social networking" websites.
These CMS/blogging platforms will allow everyones own website to be their profile, if they don't want to do the hosted route they just create a typical free account, connections will be done by an internet wide social graph where we can connect to people and businesses REAL websites. Thats it, your own website will be your own social networking profile and everyone can do with it what they please and connect to those they please.
This will create the internet as a social network itself and blogging will be the ultimate tools of the internet.
What do you think about that?

jennalanger moderator

@mikestenger Thanks, this it what makes it all worth it :) Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] if you want to talk to me or the CEO for your videos/posts. @KelsiGuidry - Invite sent!

mikestenger moderator

@jennalanger Much appreciated for you connecting in here and hooking @KelsiGuidry up. I may just have to write a post or do a video here this week on Livefyre and the right way of doing Social Media such as yourself. I'm a Social Media coach so it's great to see people really get behind a product or service and network in such a way that creates great connections. Take care!

mikestenger moderator

@KelsiGuidry Yeah, I love Livefyre! Has been fantastic so far. It's invite only right now, and @jennalanger just so happens to be community manager which is quite a coincidence *hint hint

jennalanger moderator

@mikestenger @KelsiGuidry While I don't agree with him on some parts of this post, Leo Laporte talks about making his blog is central means of communication again: http://leoville.com/buzz-kill

Part of what we're trying to do with Livefyre is have the conversation happen on the blog, so people don't need to keep directing people to other outlets to talk. I agree that it's safer to own the place you leave your ideas.

I came back too because Mike mentioned me, looks like it's working like a charm!

KelsiGuidry

@mikestenger cc@jennalanger
Man, I love this! This is a portion right here, you comment on something on your site or a friends site and you simply get a "notification" and can respond ASAP b/c you get dinged about the comment and can respond quickly. Great tool here. I think i'll have to replace Disqus

mikestenger moderator

@KelsiGuidry What do you think about this real-time commenting? Do you see it bumping up interaction and becoming much more popular? cc @jennalanger

KelsiGuidry

@mikestenger Thanks Mike... I really think something like this will occur one day. Far in the future, but something amazing like this will happen and I can't wait b/c things are going to go back to corporations saying "Find us on Coke.com" instead of find us on Coke.com, twitter.com/coke, Facebook.com/coke, YouTube.com/user/coke, etc. Then I can go to Coke.com and "Like" their website and follow them via my own feed on my own website.
There will ALWAYS be social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Etc but they will simply be apps to your website

mikestenger moderator

@KelsiGuidry The thing I've always been told is that you want your blog to be your main hub and where you want people to be connected to, for if something ever happens to say Twitter or Facebook, you won't have to start from scratch. Your blog/site is YOURS and is only subject to what you do with it, not what some company decides happens or what happens to the company. So yeah, I can agree with that bloggers will be the survivors.

KelsiGuidry

@jennalanger Yes, flavors IS on to something but going to be hard to gain traction as will any player trying to get into the social networking game. If Facebook were to fail, there would be PLENTY of people lost and not connected. But those of us who have websites and blogs will have no problem continuing our connections. That is why once this platform is created, its going to be the web and its applications that will be social and not just any social network. Bloggers will be the survivors

jennalanger moderator

@KelsiGuidry I agree with you to some extent. Services like http://flavors.me do a great job of easily bringing many social profiles together in a clean design (though I don't know how well it works on a mobile device). WordPress on the other hand takes more technical skills to set up and get working the way you want. But yes, if some super giant social network (cough, Facebook) ends up failing us, hopefully we have established our online identities in other ways that are easily accesible.