Is Google+ Your Blog?Smart people like +Mike Elgan think so -http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218456/Elgan_What_I_lost_on_the_Google_Diet Other smart people like +Chris Brogan say no- http://www.chrisbrogan.com/google-plus-is-not-your-blog/ I tend to agree with Mike in that G+ can be a blog, in the old school sense of the term (web log) but Chris Brogan makes some points that must be thought out if your a serious about your blog or use it for your business. One of the reasons for this difference of opinion is that I believe Google+ is the first social network that allows people to use the service in many different ways depending on their needs. That's very different than Twitter or Facebook. That makes Google+ harder to figure out for power users (and over-thinkers like myself) because they need to answer questions about their goals for the service and audiences. They already have accounts at Twitter and Facebook a hosted blog etc and they use them in different ways because they have to. Twitter and Facebook absolutely could not replace a blog. Google+ could - if you want it to. Particularly for the more casual bloggers out there. For the power bloggers, those people who really do have a personal brand (or want to have one,) there really are issues in using Google+ as a blog. One possibility I see the blog (in the Chris Brogan sense of the word) evolving into something more like a portfolio. A self curated home for your best content presented in the best possible way. ·-·-· |
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