Nielson on blogging

Author: Grant

23 Jul

A few weeks back usability “guru” Jacob Nielson posted on his Alertbox pulpit his views about blogging. At the time I didn’t have time to respond, except to Twitter some snarky remark about Jacob not really getting social media.

Thankfully, Scott Rosenberg posted a much more useful response.

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2 Responses for "Nielson on blogging"

marcleh July 31st, 2007 at 8:01 am 1
The no.1 reason to blog is that you can speak your heart in a few short sentences. That’s probably 95% of what you wanted to say anyway.
gyoung July 31st, 2007 at 9:21 am 2
Yeh - you’re pretty much right there.

And I think your experience in the comments of the Saasu blog are the another thing - a way of personalising a company and reconnecting with what business is largely about - conversations. Yes, shades of Cluetrain there - mebbe I should buy him a copy ;).

But I also think it’s a positioning statement on Neilson’s part too.

He’s always positioned himself as “the expert” - charging $10,000 presentation fees (for a couple of hours) etc. Blogging undermines that position to a large extent - it shows that there are many experts out there and that learning can happen in many ways, shapes and forms.