Identify Your Blogging Styles

Slideshare has come out with an interesting post related to blogging styles. Here is what I extracted.

1. Insight Blogging
Focused on sharing insights, original ideas, commentary or trends on a particular topic. Many consider this the most difficult type of blogging to do.

2. Ambition Blogging
Blogging about something with the aim of trying to attain it, usually by targeting the decision makers through the blog post.

3. Meme Blogging
Starting a thread of discussion by sharing your response to a query and then challenging other bloggers to answer it on their own blog.

4. Piggyback Blogging
Writing about a topic that is currently popular in the news media, or meme sites like Tailrank or on Blog search engines like Technorati to capitalize the attention.

5. Life Blogging
Also known as reality blogging, it involves a blog post sharing the story of something that happened to you in your personal life. Perhaps this is one of the major player of why people starts to blog.

6. Brand Blogging
A post about a brand or product focused on sharing positive attributes or an “inside looks”. Posts in this category are often form an official or unofficial view based on a personal association with a brand.

7. Detractor Blogging
Shared a passionate hatred for a product or brand, get revenge or redemption by recounting a negative experience or tell a story that casts a person or a thing in a negative light.

8. Announcement Blogging
Break news about an announcement or news that was not previously available elsewhere. For maximum effect, being the first to break the news matters most.

9. Link Blogging
Collecting a series of links to websites, blogs or other online content to create a list of resources with links in a single blog post.

10. Video Blogging
Creating original video and putting online in a blog post or embedding a video from YouTube, MetaCafe or other video sharing site into a post and commenting on it. Ratings are based on creating original video for blog post.

11. Photo Blogging
Making the main content of your blog post a photograph or series of photographs with or without some kind of captions to tell the story.

12. Review Blogging
Offer your expertise or personal opinion to review a product or service and share an honest assessment. This type of blogging can be solicited or done independently.

13. Evangelist Blogging
Passionate blog sharing an affinity and support for a social cause, organization. Product or individual that you believe in.

14. List Blogging
This is the highly popular format of the top ten lists about something. Most of the post are frequently bookmarked and shared.

15. Survey Blogging
Starting a dialogue by asking for readers’ opinions by offering a survey to answer or an open question for them to respond to through a comment or blog post.

16. Feature Blogging
Creating an ongoing feature category as in a magazine or article and then continually posting to it with new thoughts and ideas that fit together under the same theme.

17. Repost Blogging
Taking a post or article from another location and reposting a significant part of it as a blog post with limited original commentary. Often abused by spam blogs.

18. Guest Blogging
Authoring a blog post intended to be published on blog other than your own. Use to augment content on a group blog or fill gaps while a blogger cannot blog for any reason.

19. Interview Blogging
Conducting an interview and publishing either audio or video files, or creating a transcript of the interview to write into a blog post.

20. Event Blogging
Sharing impressions, opinions and insights from an event such as seminar, conference, concert or other gathering with others who may or may not have been able to attend.

21. Live Blogging
Blogging at a fast pace about something in real time as it happens. Often this type of post is uploaded through mobile blogging or updated through RSS streaming feeds.

22. Bride Blogging
Defines as “writing for an audience outside your everyday reality”. Usually post in this category offer insight into something happening in a particular part of the world that may not be known by an international audience.

23. Classified Blogging
A post that identifies a need for a product or service that you are seeking or outlines something you have to trade or sell to others.

24. Response Blogging
Directly responding to a challenge posted by someone or to a crisis situation in a post to outline your opinion and point of view.

25. Contact Blogging
Writing about a person or blog with the intent of making contact with that person. An alternative is posts sharing the experience of meeting someone that is not an interview.

There you go; 25 styles of blogging. Which one describes you?

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Posted on: June 17, 2008 | Under Blogging Basics 
 

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