[Jewelry making - Article 00470] - Re: [Orchid] Blogs by jewelers?

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From: Shane Miller <shane AT waypoint.com>

    I also have a jewelry related blog. For years I have procrastinated
    about a web site but haven't had the time or energy to launch one.
    This blog seems like a nice compromise. It allows me to say a little
    about each piece...mostly a story since my work is narrative. I
    probably would not do that on a web site. My site has only been up
    about 3 weeks and have already had hits from all over the world...and
    yesterday got my first order. For the last several posts I have been
    exploring how I got here...making jewelry...I arrived via steel
    sculpture and printmaking. I don't always feel like a jeweler.
    Photo-etching and story telling is my thing and the jewelry is just
    the vehicle. Check out my blog. 

    Thanks, Shane Miller
    http://www.uncommonwork.blogspot.com 

From: John Donivan <jjdon AT pacbell.net>

    A couple of comments, certainly biased by me--- I think blogs for
    jewelers are a very fine thing. I personally avoid blogs like the
    plague, though. The reasons are various, starting with the fact that
    most blogs I've encountered are "I got up, I fed my cat....." I
    clicked on a couple of the links posted in this thread and looked at
    the scroll bar at the right of the window - it was about 1/4" high,
    which means it's a page about 6 feet long. There's nothing
    inherently wrong with blogs, it's often the way people use them. Any
    decent web site has navigation that takes you to discrete,
    manageable, desirable pages that have what you want to know or see.
    A great many blogs just dump scrambled eggs on a huge page, and then
    have links to last week's scrambled eggs, to boot.. It's just to
    point out that getting traffic to your site, whether it be web
    server or blog, involves planning and clear thought, and clear
    directions for the visitor to click on. I have an aversion to blogs
    that's borne of experience, and I'm not alone - that's a prejudice
    that a good blog could overcome, but it's there. Blogs came out of a
    personal diary kind of situation - pretty much the original
    facebook, and a business app is going to have to do things to
    overcome that. My bias, for sure, but's it's there none the less 

    http://www.donivanandmaggiora.com
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