Comments on: Why You Want To Be the Last Blog Standing

By: Karl Ribas

Karl Ribas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:52:30 +0000

Great post, Lisa! Numbers 6 & 8 really brought it home for me.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:37:36 +0000

I really don’t understand why people would give up one (or more) medium for another. They can all be used *together*, which strengthens them overall. I have a huge issue with relying solely on other sites to host my material, as well, because we never know what will happen to Facebook, Twitter, etc. in the future. I do, however, know what will happen to my own site because I am the sole owner and therefore make all of the decisions.

I don’t have an issue with using the social media as well as other things, but to use them on their own requires giving away a lot of rights.

By: Bhaskar Sarma

Bhaskar Sarma — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:03:14 +0000

One aspect that few people have considered is that the Inc 500 list changes every year. I have not looked at the methodology of the study closely but instead of looking at the Inc 500 list as a whole, why not track the companies that were blogging in 2010 but were not in the Inc 500 list in 2011?

Not being in the Inc 500 list does not mean the company has shut shop. It only means hat it’s not among the 500 fastest growing companies in the US.

That tells you nothing much

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:18:18 +0000

Great post and I couldn’t agree more. Just because you have a social media presence doesn’t mean that you should give up on blogging. I especially like the point that your social media pages aren’t owned. You are at the mercy of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. as far as what you can and can’t do or share. Since you own your blog, you have free reign.

By: Geno Prussakov

Geno Prussakov — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:54:02 +0000

Excellent post, Lisa. Thank you for it. I needed to hear some of these things (again) too… Where is the “like” button?!

By: Judy Caroll

Judy Caroll — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:32:24 +0000

Hi Lisa,

Blogs are definitely here to stay and with the explosion of social media, I believe these tools will become more beneficial to our business. There’s power in integration. When our blogs work hand in hand with social media, we can get our message across more easily and effectively.

All the best,

Judy

By: Diane Dolinsky-Pickar

Diane Dolinsky-Pickar — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:51:42 +0000

Lisa, this is an awesome post, more awesome than all those experts sitting on their high horse getting paid the big bucks! Thanks for your OUTSPOKEN ways of wonder.

By: Diane Dolinsky-Pickar

Diane Dolinsky-Pickar — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:49:05 +0000

Sonia, I just picked up your Tweet from your tweetstream, and so VERY GLAD that I did.

By: Nikolai

Nikolai — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:48:42 +0000

though i think the work in the case of a blog is often more productive than the work of frequent posting on social sites

By: Nikolai

Nikolai — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:47:47 +0000

I totally agree with the power of a blog, but I wonder how much of the drop in blog use is due to focus on other media (fb, twi, etc) and how much is due to the larger amount of work that it takes to write a good blog.