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Why I Love Blogging
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I love the community around blogging. At it’s best it really is special. I want to give you an incredibly simple example. Last week I did this post with a diagram of how I saw the promotion of our own blog. As you can clearly see I am no designer but I thought I’d give it a stab. It got the message across but it could have been a lot clearer. Along comes Dermot Casey (His blog appears to be down but follow him here on Twitter). Instead of poking holes in my effort he went off and improved the diagram and did his own version which he shared with me yesterday. What a nice thing to do. You can imagine how much time and effort this took to do and how many times he probably scrunched it up and started again. I have no idea but I would say it took him hours. He didn’t ask to be linked to or want anything in return. He just wanted to make something better for others to gain knowledge from. Name me one other industry where this sort of thing happens? This is not an isolated incident either, I see this all the time, people want to help each other. That is why I love blogging 
Blog Promotion By Dermot
My Original
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It’s funny that, I was wondering how you created the diagram. I’m seeing a lot of great looking graphs and diagrams on blogs lately, seomoz.org, distilled.co.uk and was wondering if there was some sort of online service that generates them. Now I know just to give Dermot Casey a shout
Niall,
I think this is a really useful point of discussion to develop. I haven’t ‘done a Dermot’ but my first reaction is that this could be developed into a series of maps that map (different meaning of the word) different scenarios, or ‘opening’ scenarios. A different way of looking at it is to put the reader, the target person or persons at the centre. It would be interestinmg also to look at this in terms of the sequence of engagement, and the level of influence of different tools.
In reality no two individuals will take the same course to forming their view. If we could one on one word of moth is still THE strongest medium, but can’t be replicated across the masses. We have then the challenge of how most efficiently can we aggregate the reciept of information to the greatest number of people. I’m in the camp of looking to create communities of common interest and work from there.
Should therefore we map the the interreaionshipos between media, such as we have here, and then focus on devising ways for folk to mould those around a community with an information need?
Sorry – Friday night babbling…