Comments on: When you are famous, you are the niche http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/ Andrew looks at Blogging and Blog Life Fri, 16 May 2008 19:59:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Blogging is dead at Facibus On Blogging http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-980 Blogging is dead at Facibus On Blogging Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:58:55 +0000 http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-980 [...] something that we’ve known for a while. People want relevance more than personality (unless the personality itself is the relevance). Where there is relevance and good content there are readers - for HR/recruitment bloggers like [...] […] something that we’ve known for a while. People want relevance more than personality (unless the personality itself is the relevance). Where there is relevance and good content there are readers - for HR/recruitment bloggers like […]

]]> By: Susie Bright Blows It at Facibus On Blogging http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-765 Susie Bright Blows It at Facibus On Blogging Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:14:34 +0000 http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-765 [...] When you’re famous, you can get away with this sort of thing because people will read what you have to write anyhow. Well, most people. I’m voting with my feet and like John Chow, Susie is off my reading list. She won’t miss me, and if I miss her, there is always the occasional session on Google Reader on the laptop to catch up. [...] […] When you’re famous, you can get away with this sort of thing because people will read what you have to write anyhow. Well, most people. I’m voting with my feet and like John Chow, Susie is off my reading list. She won’t miss me, and if I miss her, there is always the occasional session on Google Reader on the laptop to catch up. […]

]]> By: AndrewBoyd http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-496 AndrewBoyd Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:17:39 +0000 http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-496 Hi Anne, thank you for your comment. In the circles I move in (social-computing-savvy IA) you are a celebrity - I may not agree with everything you say, but I sure read every word you write :) I take your point that what works for one person may not work for another and vice versa, and that niche specificity is not a guarantee of success. Best regards, Andrew Hi Anne,

thank you for your comment.

In the circles I move in (social-computing-savvy IA) you are a celebrity - I may not agree with everything you say, but I sure read every word you write :)
I take your point that what works for one person may not work for another and vice versa, and that niche specificity is not a guarantee of success.

Best regards, Andrew

]]> By: Anne Z. http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-495 Anne Z. Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:40:38 +0000 http://facibus.com/onblogging/2007/08/05/when-you-are-famous-you-are-the-niche/#comment-495 But I wasn't "famous" before I started blogging even if I am famous now (though I don't really think I am). I got the gig at WWD just by blogging about what moved me, not at all by blogging about a niche. And I got work with RedMonk the same way. And actually, I think had more renown before I worked for WWD and spent so much time on productivity tips! Maybe more people in sheer quantities know me now, but when I was blogging heavily on my own I had more quality contacts (present company excepted ;) I'm not saying you don't have to be good. And I'm not saying the niche-of-subject doesn't work for some people. Just that there are many ways to blog and find some success doing it. You don't *have* to stick to a niche to find some career gain in blogging. But I wasn’t “famous” before I started blogging even if I am famous now (though I don’t really think I am). I got the gig at WWD just by blogging about what moved me, not at all by blogging about a niche. And I got work with RedMonk the same way.

And actually, I think had more renown before I worked for WWD and spent so much time on productivity tips! Maybe more people in sheer quantities know me now, but when I was blogging heavily on my own I had more quality contacts (present company excepted ;)
I’m not saying you don’t have to be good. And I’m not saying the niche-of-subject doesn’t work for some people. Just that there are many ways to blog and find some success doing it. You don’t *have* to stick to a niche to find some career gain in blogging.

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