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Is Blogging Dead?

10/18/2012

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Is Blogging Dead? via BloggingGenealogy.com
After reading a blog post on Copyblogger.com today, another blog post called ,  "Actually, Blogging *is* Dead," by Brian Clark was suggested to read.  And since I've even heard this comment in our own industry recently AND since I absolutely do NOT agree with it, I clicked through and read it. And?



I absolutely agree with Brian.

Basically, Brian sarcastically points out that since content marketing [and I would add or extend it to marketing as a whole] is not dead, then you can say whatever you want about blogging, but duh, it's not dead. In my opinion, it's just hype to get folks to click through and read your blog post.

So. What does this mean to cousin hunters, family history bloggers, and genealogy bloggers?

Well, is storytelling dead?

Duh. No. 

And those cousins we attract to our blogs aren't dead either. I know because I get contacted all the time by new-to-me cousins [who are alive and I was contacted as recently as this past August] because of my personal family history blog, Family Stories.

Keep storytelling. Keep cousin hunting. Keep blogging.

The only thing dead about blogging is who we're blogging about. [Well, most of the time.]

Happy Storytelling, er, Blogging!
~Caroline


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Jo Graham link
10/18/2012 06:12:48 am

I agree! I had contact from a "cousin" just last week - the grand daughter of my grandfather's brother. We've never met, but she and her Mum are keen to stay in touch :-)

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Caroline Pointer
10/18/2012 06:17:34 am

Hi, Jo!

Well, there you go! Proof that it's not dead. And? Congratulations on finding another 'cousin'!

Thanks for stopping by and reading, Jo. =)

~C

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Mariann Regan link
10/18/2012 06:52:01 am

I think you've nailed the central point. Storytelling will never die, as long as there are people on earth. Stories are the basic way that we make sense of our lives. Narrative is the fundamental organizing principle for all our speech and writing. Stories have the power to "hold children from play and old men from the chimney corner." (Sir Phillip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy, 1583)

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Caroline Pointer
10/18/2012 08:14:17 am

Thank you, Mariann. As long as storytelling never dies, blogging about our ancestors will never die.

Thanks for reading! I appreciate it. =)

~C

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Heather Rojo link
10/18/2012 09:30:10 am

Boy, that copyblogger.com is feeding you old stuff from 2010. So you now know that Brian's prediction was way off mark.

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Caroline Pointer
10/18/2012 09:47:08 am

Heather,

I don't quite understand your comment, Heather. There are blog posts on my original blog Family Stories from 2009 that are still relevant today. It's very important for a blogger's success to write blog posts whose meaning lasts for a long time. Therefore, as a blogger it is a positive thing to add a widget to your blog that suggests to readers other blog posts to read that the reader might be interested in, like the one Copyblogger uses as well as the one I use on my Family Stories blog.

Additionally, it's especially important to do this if your blog is a business blog as Copyblogger's blog is. The key to success in blogging as a business is for visitors to remain on your site so that you can convert from a visitor/reader to a customer. You can't do that if they don't remain on your site.

That being said, Brian wrote his blog post sarcastically against those who feel blogging is dead. He obviously doesn't think blogging is dead. And it really makes his point [and mine now] that blogging is not dead by the fact that his business [by blogging] is even bigger than ever 2 years later.

His position was not off mark. In fact, it was spot on.

So, maybe I misunderstood your comment. In either case, thanks for reading and voicing your viewpoint. =)

~C

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Kenneth Marks link
10/18/2012 12:17:00 pm

As I see it - Brian was joking. Content Marketing, blogging, etc is all the same.

Great post Caroline.

It is writing and it is publishing on the Internet. Period.

As family history researchers, or genealogists or in my case - an ancestor hunter - it is pretty much the same thing. We write our stories or our researching tips down using a piece of software called a blog.

Let's not get hung up in terminology.

We write our stories and publish them on the Internet - and I agree with Caroline and Mariann. - the stories will never die - as long as we write them and publish them

If the term is changed to writing a Ramaflantz - then I guess I will thus be a Ramaflantzer. I really don't care what you call me (as long as you call me)

In the mean time I will continue to write my ancestor's stories and publish them online.

Kenneth

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