Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (April 3, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071811168
ISBN-13: 978-0071811163
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 0.5 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
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I got this book from NetGalley. For those who don't know, NetGalley is a website that pairs publishers with "professional readers"--booksellers, librarians, reviewers and bloggers--and offers advance digital copies of upcoming books for free in exchange for a review. It's safe to say a lot of the people who use NetGalley are book bloggers. It's also safe to say that a lot of book bloggers are going to see this title on NetGalley, Born to Blog, and be unable to resist it. I know I couldn't. It promises advice for bloggers (I'm a blogger! That's for me!). But wait.The problem is none of the advice in this book was very applicable to book bloggers, at least not that I could see. The book is almost exclusively aimed a large companies who want to expand their social media strategy to include blogging but don't know where to start. (So maybe it's not such a great idea to promote it directly at book bloggers, huh?) The book's subtitle suggests this but doesn't explicitly say it, mentioning both "business" and "personal" blogging. In reality, the book is mostly devoted to "businesses that also want to start a blog" with one chapter on "personal blogs." There was almost no consideration for blogs that ARE a business, where the blog content itself is the only product.It almost seemed like every section was written with a very specific client in mind, but then the authors wanted their book to have wider appeal so they just made everything more vague rather than acknowledging that different blogs have different needs. Here are some examples of their advice for everybody:--Ask your CEO to write a blog post--Divert money from your newspaper advertising budget to help fund your blogSo obviously these are meant for large companies.
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