Comments on: Which blog platform should I use? A blog audit

By: FAQ: Blogging inspirations, tools and trends | Online Journalism Blog

FAQ: Blogging inspirations, tools and trends | Online Journalism Blog — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:48:49 +0000

[...] Sometimes I’ve started blogs and then stopped after a while. Again, this is just part of the process. I learn along the way. There’s an audit summing up some of that here. [...]

By: Kerry Gough

Kerry Gough — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:55:12 +0000

I was just searching for some appropriate blog content and platform advice to provide for students on the Professional Media Practice module at Birmingham City University and who should my search turn up? None other than Mr Bradshaw himself. Brilliant, thanks Paul.

By: Freelance Unbound» Blog Archive Using Posterous as a first-year student journalism teaching tool |

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:00:12 +0000

[...] thinking was inspired by Paul Bradshaw’s very useful post on blogging platforms on the Online Journalism Blog – which is well worth reading] Follow [...]

By: Freelance Unbound» Blog Archive Is Tumblr in trouble? Warning signs for free Web 2.0 tools… |

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:59:45 +0000

[...] It’s a particularly pertinent question for those of us trying to teach online journalism at university. I’ve been toying with the idea of introducing first years to Posterous, rather than Blogger, for example, because you can use Posterous as a conduit for publishing content to a whole range of other platforms – from YouTube to Twitter, Facebook to Blogger. Not only that, but you can post via email, from a phone, say, and you can easily set up group posting. [NB: Thanks to Paul Bradshaw’s very useful blogging tools review.] [...]

By: Moving from Posterous to Wordpress at Danegeld

Moving from Posterous to Wordpress at Danegeld — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:49:33 +0000

[...] of theme and other issues from day 1 was not addressed. What you blog about can even dictate your choice of platform. I’ve seen some great uses of Posterous lately, for example to support feedback on an event [...]

By: The Worst of Perth

The Worst of Perth — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:49:35 +0000

And it needs to be noted that ads are forbidden on wordpress.com, so if you want to have sponsors or sell ads, then it is not the platform for you.

By: In the Tumblr vs. WordPress debate, I decided to go with… both | Mathilde Piard

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:36:56 +0000

[...] conversation with folks on Twitter about this, Paul Bradshaw actually posted excellent run down of which platforms are best suited to each blogging purpose). But in my case I could have gone either way: I wanted something where I could react to stuff I [...]

By: Suggested readings for the week of April 18th « Blogging Best Practices, April 2011

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:30:02 +0000

[...] Which blog platform should I use? A blog audit – Some observations I agree with and some observations I disagree with. Fortunately, experimenting is free or almost so there’s nothing wrong with signing up for accounts on all of them and making a list of what you like and dislike. [...]

By: Sérgio Santos

Sérgio Santos — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:16:57 +0000

Great overview on blog platforms and use cases. For my personal blog and my company’s blog I’m using Tumblr.

For the use case “Blogs for events” and aggregators, a couple of new options are available. Curation tools like scoop.it or Storify make it easy to create a page/embed on a single topic, using content scattered across the web. My company, Bundlr (http://gobundlr.com) is working on the same goal: make it easy for information professionals to manually aggregate the best content on a topic.

By: Maria Peagler

Maria Peagler — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:07:18 +0000

You’ve got some excellent advice and deep experience in blogging, which I’m sure people will find helpful. One caution about Posterous: it’s too easy to get into a “auto-post” mode on Posterous without having any real interaction. Robo-posts turn people off and miss out on the engagement factor.