Thursday, 21 August 2014

So you think you can be a blog instigator?
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Are you tired of spinning your own wheels, creating content that never gets read? I don’t know about you, but I tried before getting information on how to be a blog instigator and it was difficult for me before to be a blogger. A blog is a website that is being built around a series of entries. Public Relations Practitioners needs to familiarize themselves with blogging as the use of blogging is phenomenal.

If you studying Public Relations or you one of those Public Relations Practitioners who are struggling in creating blogs or you feel like quitting blogs? Here are 5 simple tips to guide and direct you from what I learnt since I became blog instigator.



Five tips for PR student bloggers
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v  Plan your blog: Your content strategy needs to be converted into a coherent plan. As with your content, you need to ascertain whether efforts are worth a while. People should find you blog interesting and benefit or learn something from what you came up with.

v  Comply a writing style: It is important as blogger to have your own style, try not to emulate someone you admire or your peers. Instead come up with unique entity on your own. Your style should be consistent and also find ways to regularly get inspired.

v  Preserve posts precise and brief: Don’t settle for mediocrity as there’s enough mediocrity, be awesome and outstanding. Avoid unnecessary information, just stick to important facts and be simple. At least include 300 words and no more than 1000 words, don’t word-vomit on your audience earn their attention don’t demand it.

v Your writing should be tense: Optional information which may lead to confusion should be avoided at all times. Your writing should be concise and crisp at all times, never lie or mislead people because you can easily lost trust. Give out content ideas than your comfortable with, people will reward you

v  Make your content easy to share: If your readers can easily access your content, obviously they can tell others about you. It is also important to make your content available on social networks for example share your blog on Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and others.

After some tips I've given you do you see yourself as PR blog instigator? I think you can after some tips I've disposed to you just have to be smart and be creative. That’s what it takes to be a PR blog instigator.    

14 comments:

  1. thank you for your tips as I am studying towards my public relations qualification and it does help to see what other students and practitioners are doing with their blogs.

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    1. Pleasure Mr manqele hope these tips will help you in future after getting your pr qualification as blogging is one of the most important task in pr world

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  2. Very insightful.. having to get such information for no added cost is great. Thank you very much for the information. I will use this as i blog.

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    1. pleasure Thato we need Public Relations Practitioners like you who are willing to learn from others and utilize such information

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  3. Very effective tips mr kekana but i still feel that the is more in blogging than those tips you have given .my question is do you think blogging soon will even be practiced by students under the age of 17?

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    1. the is more tips indeed Mr Fafuli, these ones are the most important tips for me ...And i don't think blogging is important to a 17 years old student because at that stage they don't even sure about their careers and others might not see the necessity of blogging

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  4. These tips are very crucial and also helpful at the same time to a specific individual person.

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    1. Especially for us who are studying Public Relations and for everyone who is interested in blogging

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  5. These tips you stated are very imported when it comes to blogging, I hope you apply them also when blogging because you will earn so much respect when it comes to blogging.

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    1. So as they say practice what you preach,that's what i am doing when i am doing my blogs that's why i feel they might be useful to you guys

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  6. blogging is not only a matter of putting words in a blog post, as a public relation practitioner, you have to hold on to the reputation you received after getting your diploma and so forth, and that is where these tips come in handy for you.

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    1. Yes Kagiso these tips are important to qualified Public Relations Practitioners but i feel like as students for PR we should start practicing them now so that things will be easy for us in fiture

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  7. I like the tips you have given and I am sure every PR student would use them even me myself.But remember while blogging you must have fun and enjoy doing it.

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    1. Yeah there many tips though when it comes to blogging,these are not the only tips for blogging

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