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I used Foursquare for a few weeks now and it’s fun. It makes you want to play along and see what will happens when you go here, or there. How many points will you get and how many of your friends have been where you were is fun to keep up with too. I’ve become slightly strangely addicted to wanting to be the highest score amongst my friends so it’s like a harmless competition. Comments/tips were not necessarily helpful to me considering that I was there anyway and the tips were from so long ago. I somewhat read over them but I left several tips that I found important for that specific time I was there that could have been influential. I went to Cracker Barrel and left a tip telling people to order the sweet potato pancakes.

I don’t know how the tips are supposed to work but it would be cool if, from an advertiser/journalist perspective, if the tips could represent cash tips (like a tip jar) and for every tip you leave it’s 2 cents (like putting your 2 cents in!!), and when you accumulate an X amount of “tips” you not only get a badge, but also a bonus discount of offers at the places you left your tips on. That way it would encourage people to leave more tips for people to either purchase something specific or avoid the place, (like some comments/tips I read!!)

I would advise a professional in my field, either an advertiser or journalism professional, that if you want to utilize foursquare, you have to act fast, check-in, leave comments/tips while sharing them with either facebook or twitter or both. And also be cautious of where you are. Advertisers can use this information by learning who is going where and of the people who leave tips, what could be done with that information, improvement or promotion. For journalists, I would advise that comments on what you’re doing there and tips on the experience at the location are critical for others to read quickly and must be short and to the point, even shorter than tweets. Keep it simple.

I talked to a friend Brittney, who is a nursing student, about my blog. My topics relate to healthy living and managing stress. So she thought it would be a good idea to include posts about the importance of eating healthy, cooking for yourself versus eating fastfood, and managing your level of acohol consumption. As for ways to manage stress, she mentioned that there should be topics on different levels of stress and how to learn to pull yourself away from your stresser every once in a while, no matter how vital it is to your everyday life. Sometimes you have to walk away from your problems and you’ll feel better about everything.

Lastly, we talked about her social media usage. Although she only uses facebook, she also fiddles with youtube and she recommended that it would be interesting to see video blogs as posts sometimes to keep my readers interested in my topics and in my blog itself. She thought that facebook would be a good way to promote my blog because my audience is for people her age, 22, and in college under a lot of stress. And would listen and take the time to read what I had to say about my blog and it would increase at least the number of people who visit my site.

The blogosphere is forever evolving, says Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2011. There are 5 main types of bloggers. They are hobbyists, professional part timers, full timers, corporate, or entrepreneurs.

Randomly selected network site visitors over the age of 18 participated in the survey. Data collection took place from September 1 to October 26, 2011. A total of 1,231 respondents took part in the survey. These are the results.

1. Hobbyist (61%) - not a main source of their income. They don’t get paid to blog.
2. Professional part timers (13%) - not their main source of income. They may receive compensation for their blogging but not considered their full time job.
3. Professional full timers (5%) - Independent blogger and considers it their full time job.
4. Corporate (8%) – Blog for a company or organization. They use blogging to reach their business professional crowd.
5. Entrepreneurs (13%) - blogging is their income and they blog for their own company or organization.

Being a beginner blogger, the best way to build experience as a blogger is to write about things you can easily relate to and enjoy doing. Even though I’m currently in the Hobbyist category, I do want to one day either be a fulltime blogger or a corporate blogger. Considering that I am in the advertising field, I am keeping the opportunity in mind of having a career as a social media professional working for a company that wants me to blog for them. Advertisers can utilize blogging by allowing their viewers to express their opinion directly about the company, good or bad, and the company has an opportunity to give feedback. That way, advertisers can learn what they can do to better the company, product, or image.

http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-introduction/page-1/

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The blogosphere is forever evolving, says Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2011. There are 5 main types of bloggers. They are hobbyists, professional part timers, full timers, corporate, or entrepreneurs.

Randomly selected network site visitors over the age of 18 participated in the survey. Data collection took place from September 1 to October 26, 2011. A total of 1,231 respondents took part in the survey. These are the results.

1. Hobbyist (61%) - not a main source of their income. They don’t get paid to blog.
2. Professional part timers (13%) - not their main source of income. They may receive compensation for their blogging but not considered their full time job.
3. Professional full timers (5%) - Independent blogger and considers it their full time job.
4. Corporate (8%) – Blog for a company or organization. They use blogging to reach their business professional crowd.
5. Entrepreneurs (13%) - blogging is their income and they blog for their own company or organization.

Being a beginner blogger, the best way to build experience as a blogger is to write about things you can easily relate to and enjoy doing. Even though I’m currently in the Hobbyist category, I do want to one day either be a fulltime blogger or a corporate blogger. Considering that I am in the advertising field, I am keeping the opportunity in mind of having a career as a social media professional working for a company that wants me to blog for them. Advertisers can utilize blogging by allowing their viewers to express their opinion directly about the company, good or bad, and the company has an opportunity to give feedback. That way, advertisers can learn what they can do to better the company, product, or image.

 http://technorati.com/blogging/article/state-of-the-blogosphere-2011-introduc…