syndicate

IDG's content syndication conference, Syndicāte, begins today with Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google among the speakers discussion social media topics like blogs, podcasts, and RSS feeds.

So, Doc Searls' keynote was absolutely excellent. He spoke about the importance of informations, how calling what we write in blogs "content" does it ...

Yes, that's right, I'm at the syndicate conference at the Marriot Marquis in Manhattan. Why didn't I say anything till right now? Because I had no idea I was coming.

Blog content is written in various ways. Content blogs, and reblogging or syndicate blogs, are receiving a fair bit of discussion among various business blog commentators.

Scrivs takes a look at whether its best to write an original content blog or a syndicated (linking to others articles) blog. It is a good question that is well worth thinking through for each of your blogs.

Do you have regularly updating content that you would like to make available to other websites? Perhaps a computer tip of the day, a daily recipe, or even a daily cartoon?

RSS is quickly becoming the standard choice for delivering syndicated web content. Have you ever wondered how some of the large content sites deliver their headlines? Or, have you ever wanted to display news headlines, but didn't want to display the standard "Content Provided By..." info? Or, have you ever wanted to syndicate your own content? RSS may be the answer you've been looking for.

Writing articles and having them published on other websites or in ezines is a popular way of promoting your site. Including a good signature line with each article will spark the readers' interest, resulting in more visits to your website.