Yesterday, I was at Liberal Conspiracy’s Blog Nation 2010 conference. This was a chance for left liberal bloggers to get together and discuss strategies we can adopt now that we find ourselves in opposition (or a minority partner in the coalition government).
Sunny has already blogged his thoughts on how the conference went. He asked for other people’s thoughts/ These are mine.
It was great to meet so many liked-minded bloggers and to put faces to blogs that I’ve been reading for years. I also felt that most of the presentations and discussions were really useful and interesting. There were, however, a couple of area that I thought could be improved.
Pretty much all of the discussion centred on the messages that we can publish to counter the right-wing rhetoric we get from most of the media. This was all good stuff, but I couldn’t help wondering if we were addressing the problem at the wrong level.
I have no doubt that we’re all already doing what we can to publish these kinds of stories. I’m sure that we can all raise our game in this area, but don’t believe that is the main problem that we have. The main problem is making sure that as many as possible are reading what we write. An d I was slightly disappointed that this issue was barely covered.
I have no easy solution to this problem. I suppose that we need to give some more thought to SEO. But I’m sure that there are other things that we can do to get our message in front of more people. I’d welcome a discussion on this topic at next year’s Blog Nation. But in the meantime, feel free to add ideas in the comments below.