“Is Facebook killing Blogger?”
During the last years, I've been worried about this
subject and decided now to explore it with your help. Let my give you an example, a kind of starting point: We have in Portugal a
webpage lodged in the Portuguese Orienteering Federation's site,
which is called OriOasis.
It's kind of a “mini-World of O” site, where 23 Portuguese Blogs and Sites are represented. More than a half of them are
completely dead and only six blogs have articles published in
2015. Five of them have 25 articles overall published along this
year. The other one, Orientovar –www.orientovar.blogspot.com
–, has 390 articles published so far. Orientovar is my personal
blog and I know what I'm talking about; but I also have to say
that I have now around 80 visitors each day, while that number,
three years ago, was higher than 400 visitors each day. At the
same time, I can see that the “dead
blogs” administrators, are still quite active on Facebook, which mean,
probably, they moved their attentions from Blogger to Facebook in
an almost definitive way.
So, I tried to listen some top bloggers about this subject, having their feedback about five questions (the same for everyone). Emily Benham, Catherine
Taylor, Mikhail Vinogradov, Lizzie Ingham, Hans Jörgen Kvale or
Jan Kocbach are some of the bloggers that, during the next days,
will leave here their opinions. Of course, you're also free to
participate, leaving your contribution on the Portuguese
Orienteering Blog's commentary corner. We'll certainly appreciate that!
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Looking for the Portuguese example above, do
you feel the same with your blog and blogs around you? Is this a
problem for you?
Mikhail Vinogradov (M. V.) - I
don't feel some pressure from Facebook to our blog (or other blogs).
Some athletes have created Facebook pages, but in my opinion are
different things; unlike Blog, the Facebook frame is really a short
message mainly with picture.
Do you have an Orienteering Facebook
page? Could you tell us about your experience in having both a
Facebook page and Blog?
M. V. - Galina and I have
Facebook accounts (not Athlete profiles!), We used it to contact
people and also put announces about articles in our blog.
Is it clear that Facebook is a quick
way to talk about Orienteering, but is it also the best way to
promote our sport? Is the Blogger condemned to be extinguished?
M. V. - In my opinion, Blogs are
better to communicate in Orienteering. You can put a lot of pictures,
maps, analysis, surveys, etc.
Have you ever felt like stopping
writing? Are you loosing the interest in writing and reading – and
sharing! - about Orienteering?
M. V. - No.
Have you any general ideas about
Communication in our sport that you would like to share?
M. V. - World of O is the best
option for the moment.
Joaquim Margarido
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