Future of blogging platforms and tools. Advice for selecting your blog platform. Course lecture for Aalto University course (Blog Or Die). How to select between building your own website or going inside some social media site or media website?
4. Speaker’s blogging history
• Vierityspalkki.fi, the #1 web design blog in Finland
– Editor-in-chief, ~500 published articles since 2007
– Over 3000 Twitter followers and over 1000 Facebook fans
– Over 20 000 visits per month
• Also other expert blogs and guest articles, eg. http://intranet-ostajanopas.fi
• Latest project:
– Buyer’s Guide to Web Projects: http://www.northpatrol.com/blog/
• Total: Blogging since 2007, published around 700 articles since then
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14. Owning or renting your platform?
Remember: This is typical for
large brands that are not in the
media business. For media
corporations this is pretty
much impossible since they
are in direct competition with
these platforms.