[AccessD] FW: Blog on Rex Website

[John R Bartow]

Hi Rocky,
I've noted the comments of others here and agree with much of it.

My input would be that if the blog is done for marketing purposes, unless
they have someone skilled at marketing to post and respond, they may want to
forgo this idea. The anonymity of a venue empowers the negativity of the
participants.

"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists." -Don
Marquis

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Rocky Smolin
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:12 AM
To: 'Off Topic'; List; 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] FW: Blog on Rex Website

A client who is in the process of creating a commercial product based on the
system I developed for his own business writes:
 


 We are in the final phase of finishing the REX website and Doris is adamant
that we need to include a blog.  Do you agree?

 

 

I responded to him:

 

A blog has two advantages: 1) it creates a community of users who can post
blog entries to your site, respond to the blog posts and exchange
information, and creates the impression of a more reputable product; 2) the
'bots that crawl through your site and are responsible for placement in the
search engines, 'lke' new content.  So a blog may incease your placement in
a search by continuously adding new content to your site.
 
There are two disadvantages: 1) allowing users or other to post comments to
your blog opens you up to criticism, fair or unfair whcih you can control
that by deleting undesreable posts - an ethically questionalbe tactic - or
by not allowing comments or other posts to your blog which degrades its
credibility in the minds of readers; 2) you need to solicit posts or create
posts yourself continuously - a blog on which the last post is already
'stale' impairs your credibility - so it's a job which needs to be attended
to all the time.
 

Any other thoughts on this?

 

MTIA

 

Rocky

 

 

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