Blogging and social bookmarking are widely regarded as being the ‘in things’ at the moment with user participation and activity being an important factor in the success of many new companies. However research conducted by Dotcommerce has found that many of the top retailers don’t use Web 2.0 ideas and functions and have largely ignored the potential benefits that they could provide.

Whether those needs are for entertainment, news, inspiration, community, instruction, intellectual stimulation, a laugh/or a cry etc - if your content meets the need it goes a long long way to being compelling - after-all, who pays attention to something that has little relevance to them?

We bloggers talk a lot about finding our voice, that mystical quality that is uniquely us and yet somehow resonates with a wider audience. What happens, though, when your blog gets written by a group of authors? How does a company or community blog find its voice and not just devolve into a schizophrenic mess?

WYSIWYG HTML editors are great. They let bloggers, or other webmasters, build sites or create posts without requiring them to take a look at any of the code that makes it up. Best of all, they are becoming increasingly powerful, able to do more and more while creating better and better code.

Just started a new blog? We have some tips for new bloggers that we have experienced first hand and have incorporated into our blogging experiences.