A New Generation Marketer

Daniel Offer of Chit Chat for Facebook, a Facebook App, writes about Video Blogging. Chit Chat let’s you send Facebook Chat messages from your desktop.

Blogging’s Offspring – Podcasts & vblogs


Blogging over the past ten years has become increasingly popular; blogging is now main stream. Almost everyone seems to be posting online diaries, advice, recipes and their thoughts online.

Whilst the first offspring to blogging, podcasts (audio blogs) gained much media attention it failed to capture the imagination of most webmasters. Indeed, the medium lacked the immediacy of information access that we have grown so accustomed to on the internet.

Blogging’s most recent offspring, video blogging – commonly known in the community as vblogs, are however, gaining increasing favor. Similar to blogging, regular posts result in return visits by visitors. Many video bloggers – “vbloggers” use RSS feeds in order to deliver updates instantly.

vBlogging for an Existing Blogger?


If you already regularly blog, then you’re probably thinking whether a video blog would add value to your existing blog. Think of it this way – it’s difficult to portray humor and sarcasm on a webpage, moreover, it’s also difficult to establish a personal relationship with your audience. Videos are also useful for providing tutorials, showing what to do rather than merely explaining.

If you consider your persona more captivating than your writing a vblog could be useful to you.

Video blogging doesn’t necessarily need to replace your existing blogging style, consider videos as a supplement to what you’re currently doing. A video can be much more powerful than simply telling a story in words. Consider watching a video about a hurricane vs. reading about it.

See what I mean?

What Do You Need To Video Blog?

In order to video blog you need a device that can capture video – you may wish to use a web cam, video camera or your digital camera. All of these devices are fairly affordable, and you’ll probably find that you already have an existing device that can create video for you – consider using this existing device prior to buying something new.

You’ll need to host your video somewhere – perhaps you have your own hosting, or would prefer to use youtube.com.

Vblogging – The Future

Given the personal relationship that can be developed by vBlogging, it’s my opinion that video blogging is going to obtain increasing favor, particularly amongst marketers.