Who Do You Trust?
By Desty on Aug 3, 2007 in Blogging -- Technical, Meta Blogging
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I’ve been brainstorming over the past week as to how to bring Desty Online to the next level. The theme change was the first project I came up with; hopefully it will happen tonight. Once you start a theme change, you really need to keep the upgrade going until it looks decent.
My second project is to go back to upgrade my posts and add relevant images where I’m able. Images add so much to an article. Instead of writing about something, you can show your readers. Also, using an image means that you don’t have to use a link to an outside source. There have been two times when I’ve linked to Yahoo’s Finance pages to show stock price histories. If the reader doesn’t follow those links, then part of the story is missing.
Finally, I was on my way towards a meeting this morning for work and thinking about what else I can add to increase my readers’ experience. Then it came to me:
PODCASTING
I had an idea on how to use pod-casting to not only enhance the reader experience, but also as a marketing tool. As this giddy feeling of a great idea was washing over me, a wave of cold reality hit me square in the face.
- I know nothing about how to create a podcast.
- I haven’t seen it done anywhere, so who do I ask how to do it without giving away a great idea too early?
It may or may not be a good idea, but I want to be the one who does it first. If it were to catch on, then I’m the innovator, otherwise I’m just one in a line of followers.
One of the first rules of blogging is be unique. Offer something to your readers that no one else has. Being creative and coming up with new ideas is something every businessperson looking to expand needs to work towards. The problem occurs when your ideas outstrip your means or knowledge. Going to outside sources is the key to progressing, but when your source of experience is also possible competition, you have to rely on their discretion and honesty.
Back to me. I’m going to research more and see what I can do on my own before I start asking for help. I know something as simple as pod-casting makes me seem paranoid for thinking all this. It’s part of my business plan and could become not only a great marketing tool, but a nice revenue stream.
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Well you won’t be first to podcast, but there’s still not that many out there, so go for it.
A plugin that may interest you is the excellent Audio Player:
http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/
which is configurable for podcasting, and can also allow it to be downloaded. Best of luck!
Look forward to the new theme - you have tested it, haven’t you?
Be sure to check out PodPress.
Of course I haven’t tested the theme yet
What’s going to take so long I think will be adding all the various codes to the single page file and the index file. I’ll have to make a list of what I’m already using and want to bring with me. Also I haven’t figured out exactly what header pic I want.
It’s not so much the podcasting that’s such a good idea, its what I’m gonna do with it
Then again, I may just not have found someone out there that is already doing it, and it will be crushing
I’m going to do some different things on my blog as well, I especially like doing things the A-Listers haven’t done yet!
Good luck to you and I’ll be supporting you!