What is blogging?
It’s more than people putting up pictures of what they’re eating!
A blog (a contraction of the words web log) is a discussion or informational site published online and consisting of discrete entries (“posts”) typically displayed in reverse chronological order.
What’s in a blog?
- Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blogs), photographs (photoblogs), videos (video blogs or “vlogs”), music (MP3 blogs), and audio (podcasts).
- Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts (i.e. Twitter / Facebook).
Who’s blogging?
- 65% of bloggers are 18-44 years old. 30% are 25-34
- Bloggers are well-educated: 7 out of 10 bloggers have gone to college, a majority of whom are graduates
- Bloggers are active across social media
- 70% of bloggers have been active for more than 2 years. 20% of all bloggers have been active for more than 6 years.
“Most of the people still don’t give thought to blogging as an actual job. But some full-time bloggers know the truth”
Why blogging is so popular ???
Are we on the same page? Cool. Let’s move on to why you should create blogs?
–It allows people to interact with each other.
–Easy to start and maintain.
–Frequently updated with contents.
–Freedom to express your feelings.
–You can learn a lot from blogs.
–Doesn’t require that writers and contributors know a lot about HTML.
–Serves as an Internet medium.
–Blogging is fun and for everyone.
Importance of writing blogs for Society :
- It is the easiest way of the content management system
- It is the easiest way to express your ideas to society
- It builds communities and amplifies your humanity
- It can refine your thoughts that give rewards
- It connects yourself with like-minded society peoples
- It opens up a world without any borders
- It enables you to become an expert in your area
- It expands your network of friends and clients for business
- It makes you popular
Blogging?
- Numerous people do not be convinced by me when I tell them that are numerous acknowledged bloggers who run their blogs as a full-time business and earning more than full-time top-level managers and senior employees.
- Do you know that there are numerous bloggers making lakhs of rupees on a monthly basis? Keep in mind these bloggers are normal people like you and me making a good amount of money and they are not superheroes.
- The amount that these bloggers are making, runs in lakhs. In reality skilled or professional, doctors, professional engineers even don’t make this much money. You must be knowing that it takes years and years of a lot of efforts to become a professional doctor or skilled engineer.
- If you are one of those kinds of people thinking that blogging is wastage of time then here in the link below check the list of Top 10 bloggers in India and their earnings from different industries.
Top 10 Indian Bloggers of 2019 + Monthly Income
- There are a number of education blogs in India which are relevant to a different group of people.
- There are general education blogs, MBA specific blogs, study abroad blogs, blogs for kids and so on
Education blogs in India-Some of them are:
- Pratham: Pratham Education Foundation- NGO is the largest in India
- Posts | MBA Crystal Ball: MBA Crystal Ball is an MBA centric blog
- AdmitKard Blog: AdmitKard is a study abroad website – Various courses and universities abroad.
- Careers360 – The Education Hub: They provide info on different career options with different colleges and courses.
- Shiksha Corporate Blog: Shiksha’s blog provides higher education options.
- Learn, Out of the Box: The main aim of the blog is to make learning fun hence they plan to enhance student classrooms by diversifying learning activities.
- Magic Pathshala: This blog helps children learn through internet, it works on multiple devises and also speaks multiple languages for the children to understand.
