Most internet expert regard Blogging as a new media which refers to the act of posting content on a blog (a Web log or online journal) or posting comments on someone else's blog.
Randy Duermyer in one of his article on "Why Blogging is so Popular" states that , Blogging is very popular today because it allows people to interact with each other. Blogging has also become a popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool because search engines like Google and Yahoo know that a blog is frequently updated with content or visitor comments, so their spiders visit blogs frequently looking for new content to include in their index.

However at the just concluded West Africa Bloggers Conference, which was organised by GistMate Communications Limited 15 and 16 of May 2015 actually delivered as promised. The speakers who presented at the event are :

Clara Okoro (MD Brand World Media)
Tomi Ogunlesi – Brand Manager of First Bank Nigeria
Ayo Oyebade (MD Advert Strikers LTD and CEO GistMate Communications LTD)
Alaezi Akpuru (Style Consultant Jumia Nigeria)
Lanre Aina – Google Nigeria (Business Development)
Bayo Adekambi (CMO MTN) and many more


[center][b]1.Building relationships with other fellow bloggers and website owners is the best thing you can do for your online presence.
2.The choice of niche is important because it has a direct impact
3.Almost every Nigerian blogger wants to be like Linda Ikeji, make up your mind to stand out and be YOURSELF... Create YOU
4.The collective reality of a nation is shaped by writers; this is why every nation needs bloggers." Bayo Adekanbi
5.Everything you write it is exposed to 7 billion people. Bloggers have the future in their hand
6.Connect with your audience through stories people love.-Shafqat Islam
7.Fashion Niche is huge market for bloggers - Alaezi Akpuru
8.Invest in promoting your blog - take it to ur audience - they won't come to you. Seun Adenuga (JUMIA)
9.To understand customers, you need to understand their culture - Franklin Ozekhome
10.An idea of a Travel Blog has a potential of accumulating more serious and business-minded audience
11.Reduce your bounce rate. Avoid shitty traffic - it'd kill ur blog. It's not how much, it's how real. Uyi (SMILE)
12.Shitty traffic will kill your blog if you don't get careful #wabclagos2015
13.To promote your blog - Create a trend, or at least jump on one. Seun Adenuga (JUMIA)
14.You can't be all things for all men - Carve a niche for yourself/brand/blog - Tomi Ogunlesi (FBN)
15.Read more and use quality images on your blog - Mr. Bayero Agabi
16.Invest in promoting your blog - take it to your audience - they won't come to you. Seun Adenuga (JUMIA) #WABCLagos2015
17.Great writers dig, dig and dig until they find gold.
18.You either write something that is worth reading about or do something that is worth writing about. – Benjamin Franklin
19.Be persistent with what you do.The blog as we know it is a dying phenomenon that is gradually giving way to “vlogging”, which is video blogging.You can create videos that can be monetized on Youtube and also used to drive traffic to your blog.

20. A blogger should be guided by these 4 M’s:
Meaning – Give meaning to what you are doing and separate yourself from the crowd.
Management – Think and act like a businessman because Blogging is serious business. Try to create something that would make your visitors come back.
Monetization – You need to know how to monetize your blog and make money from it.
Measurement – Measure your progress (Alexa ranking, positive comments, writing mood and so on)
21. A blogger should know the following:

Brands want to create content
How to Gain Brand exposure
How to Engage & Educate
How to influence purchasing behaviour of their audience
Improve Brand discoverability
Know that there’s a responsibility on you for the nation as regards the content you put online
About 43% of Nigerians access the internet on mostly mobile only, 29% do mobile only, while about 5% use the desktop only. Therefore, the focus for generating content should be on mobile.

22.Go beyond your content sell your methodology , Give your brand a voice outside your digital space -. Franklin Ozekhome

23. You must stands out for something to make a meaning - Alero ladipo (CMO SMILE NIGERIA)

24.Always think quality over sensalisalism- Tomi Ogunlesi (FBN)[/b][/center]

what do you think?
source : http://techcribng.com/quotes-from-blogging-experts-at-west-africa-bloggers-conference/

more reply pls...

Quotes from Nigerian bloggers? Hmmmmmmmmmm with all the lies and rumours they peddle around?

they now hold conferences??

Please what do I benefit from this thread?

Ok---all these points lack philosophy

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Khaffi was here!

Can Nigerian Bloggers, read and learn from this?

3. "Almost every Nigerian blogger wants to be like Linda Ikeji, make up your mind to stand out and be YOURSELF... Create YOU"

Correct!!!

Professionalism!!!!

Ok

That point number is the bane of most new bloggers. They don't want to network

Nice quotes....
But if all of us become a blogger who will be the bloggee(reader)
On a lighter note, these are nice quotes to reflect on.

Hmm! All those Linda Ikeji clowns really need to read this...especially number 3. How do you plan to be as rich as Linda Ikeji when you and hundreds of other bloggers wait till she posts, then you copy and post her news in your own blog. It can't work that way. You don't even have to be in the gossip/entertainment niche, that market is saturated...there are many things to blog about. I blog about rap music (kaysrapzone.com), and I can say I am fairly popular, not just in Nigeria, but worldwide. I'm not rich, not at all...but I am getting there. Anyway,if you have problem lasting long in bed, hit me up on BBM- 7C22F6EC.

Nice one.....but was surprise there could be a conference for Bloggers with no reputable blogger among the speakers. Anyway nice delivery but would have prefer to hear from the masters.

Can't find that of Seun Osewa Nairaland forum....OP go wake am make he give us him coat sorry quote

Ok

You can never be another Linda Ikeji, you missed that Train five years ago ~ Lanre Aina (from Google Nigeria) West Africa Bloggers Conference

Phinity318:
Can't find that of Seun Osewa Nairaland forum....OP go wake am make he give us him coat sorry quote

seun is a robot, we only hear him we don't see him

So true... It has always workd out for me...Check out my blog

I thought this is about quotes from bloggers. Check out quote 18, I guess Benjamin Franklin have started blogging from the grave.

How many of the speakers make money from blogging?

None from any blogger.

Is it some kind of tutorial class or a discussion parley.
Bloggers should be talking more not service providers

I need a good tech blogger to give backlinks to, I need some old quality how-to articles especially on rooting

Lies

I was there, now I am here again! Expect super followup thread from me

Those people that actually succeed in blogging did not make money their focus. It is natural to them.

Harlex:
Nice one.....but was surprise there could be a conference for Bloggers with no reputable blogger among the speakers. Anyway nice delivery but would have prefer to hear from the masters.

No reputable blogger? damn you don't know anything in your life.

Very nice post,learned a lot.

[size=18pt]So how many bloggers came from the other West African countries and shared the perspectives of their blogosphere?
And who says blogging is a new media?
The first web log was created in 1997 before Google was created in 1998.
By population, it is embarrassing that out of a population of over 70 million Nigerians on the internet, active bloggers in Nigeria are not even up to 1000 when there are more than 172 million blogs on the internet.

Not surprisingly, the most active bloggers are younger people who have grown up during the blogging "revolution", which started about seven years ago. Bloggers in the 21-to-35 year-old demographic group account for 53.3% of the total blogging population. This group is followed by the generation just behind them - people 20-years-old or under are 20.2% of the blogging landscape. This group is closely followed by 36-to-50 year-olds (19.4%), while bloggers who are 51-years-old and older only account for 7.1%.

By Country

It should not be much of a surprise that the most bloggers (29.2%) are located in the U.S. In fact, there are more than four times as many bloggers in the U.S. as there are in the second most populated country within the blogosphere - the U.K., which is home to 6.75% of bloggers.

Japan accounts for the third-most bloggers (4.9%), followed by Brazil (4.2%), Canada (3.9%), Germany (3.3%), Italy (3.2%), Spain (3.1%), France (2.9%) and Russia (2.3%).

http://sysomos.com/reports/bloggers/

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Nice 1

love that 18

Tomi Ogunlesi representing.
~Hat off ~

26th quote - don't forget to get a day job or maintain one if you already have until you are sure your blog is able to feed you.

Only 5 percent of blogs globally are viable business . I am sure the statistics might be lower in Nigeria