Comments on: Blog Software Comparison http://www.adammessinger.com/2005/07/20/blog-software-comparison Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:35:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Dan Hollings http://www.adammessinger.com/2005/07/20/blog-software-comparison#comment-8050 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:09:39 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2005/07/20/blog-software-comparison#comment-8050 It's interesting to note that there are many blogging platforms and thus many choices for the serious blogger to consider. A phenomena many people, businesses and even celebrities are starting emply is that of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-blog" rel="nofollow">multi-blogging</a>. Typically a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-blogger" rel="nofollow">multi-blogger</a> does this because they want to focus on very different topics for a varied audience; or maintain 'media type' blogs where one might for text/content blogging while another is for podcasting and a third might be for photo-blogging. Yet the variety that will likely appeal to most, is multi-blogging 'similar-topic' original content to multiple target audiences. This variety allows a content publisher or author to compose one content stream (like perhaps, weekly articles on a topic of broad interest) and then have a 'rules-based' software help target and personalize that content stream for many different niche audiences. I used to run one blog that was a "one-size-fits-all" internet marketing tips blog. My challenge was that my potential audience came from many different companies and were not attracted by such a broad scoped 'generic' approach. Bloggers want to read about marketing tips for 'bloggers', while web site owners want to explore internet marketing tips for 'web site owners.' Affiliate marketers want traffic, franchisees want traffic, network marketers want traffic, and woman business owners want traffic... but guess what, even though my articles could help all of them, they won't read what's not targeted to them! This challenge led me to create a specialized software (I call it Blog-zilla) specifically for true multi-blogging. <a href="http://www.Blog-zilla.com" rel="nofollow">Blog-zilla</a> is a blog publishing system that takes a core article (blog content) and personalizes and customizes your content for each blog audience. It posts across many blog platforms and can even augment your content with matching RSS feeds (if desired). I now easily maintain 100 targeted blogs in about the same time it would take me to run 2 blogs the old fashion way. It would be interesting to know if others have had the same challenge (or need) and what solutions are out there to address this need. In the end, I think both blog publishers and the blog readers benefit. I expect multi-blogging to become as popular as podcasting; especially for online businesses and entrepreneurs. Heres a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&#38;u=/prweb/20050712/bs_prweb/prweb260055_2" rel="nofollow">Yahoo news story on the Blog-zilla software</a> I created. I would love to hear from you and others. It’s interesting to note that there are many blogging platforms and thus many choices for the serious blogger to consider. A phenomena many people, businesses and even celebrities are starting emply is that of multi-blogging. Typically a multi-blogger does this because they want to focus on very different topics for a varied audience; or maintain ‘media type’ blogs where one might for text/content blogging while another is for podcasting and a third might be for photo-blogging. Yet the variety that will likely appeal to most, is multi-blogging ’similar-topic’ original content to multiple target audiences. This variety allows a content publisher or author to compose one content stream (like perhaps, weekly articles on a topic of broad interest) and then have a ‘rules-based’ software help target and personalize that content stream for many different niche audiences.

I used to run one blog that was a “one-size-fits-all” internet marketing tips blog. My challenge was that my potential audience came from many different companies and were not attracted by such a broad scoped ‘generic’ approach. Bloggers want to read about marketing tips for ‘bloggers’, while web site owners want to explore internet marketing tips for ‘web site owners.’ Affiliate marketers want traffic, franchisees want traffic, network marketers want traffic, and woman business owners want traffic… but guess what, even though my articles could help all of them, they won’t read what’s not targeted to them!

This challenge led me to create a specialized software (I call it Blog-zilla) specifically for true multi-blogging. Blog-zilla is a blog publishing system that takes a core article (blog content) and personalizes and customizes your content for each blog audience. It posts across many blog platforms and can even augment your content with matching RSS feeds (if desired).

I now easily maintain 100 targeted blogs in about the same time it would take me to run 2 blogs the old fashion way. It would be interesting to know if others have had the same challenge (or need) and what solutions are out there to address this need.

In the end, I think both blog publishers and the blog readers benefit. I expect multi-blogging to become as popular as podcasting; especially for online businesses and entrepreneurs.

Heres a Yahoo news story on the Blog-zilla software I created.

I would love to hear from you and others.

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