One of the things that I’ve wanted to do on Ten Keyboards was to review existing blogs that writers use. The purpose is not to be critical, but to bring good writer blogs here so that writers who are in the process of deciding what type of blog they want to start can see some good ones out there.
For those who have existing blogs, it is a way to pick up ideas from other blog formats and designs that they could then use on their blogs.
The problem is how to evaluate a blog and then apply the same evaluation to all other blogs that are reviewed over the course of time. It’s been a conundrum for a while as I don’t want to just evaluate a blog on the basis of my biases (even when I don’t have any….).
Today, while walking around during a break, the light bulb went off in my head. I’ve written some posts on what blogs should have and in my business life I’ve built evaluation scorecards. But, I haven’t done those things for blogs.
Consequently, I’m working on an evaluation scorecard for writer blogs that will end up looking like a checklist that can be used to evaluate all blogs. Same thing with writer web sites. It’s actually harder to do than one might think as some writers are published and others not, some write non-fiction and others fiction, some are famous and some just write for the joy of writing. Each blog appeals to a particular audience and the purpose of each blog for the writer can be different.
Some criteria is in order. I’m starting to work on that. What do you think a successful blog or web site should have for a writer?
Scot
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