Do you allow your members to have personal blogs?

[Heatman]

There are some forum softwares which comes with blog feature system that allows for blog sections to be used in the same forum. If you're making use of a forum software that allows for blogs to be used, do you make its usage available for all of your members? Personally, I would say that if it's something your members are interested in using, you should enable it and allow them use it.

What do you think about allow your members to have personal blogs?

 

[Grant]

There are some forums I run that have personal blog options for users. It's just a portion of their profile usually, where you can post updates, people can comment on your posts, etc. Normally I don't see people bothering to use these services, I mean I never really did and I don't recall anyone else using it.

But it's an option most forums have these days. I think Bizdustry has an option to have your own blog within your profile if you want.

 

[Busybee]

Having a blog section within the forum can offer additional opportunities for members to share their thoughts, expertise, and experiences in a more long-form and structured manner. It can enhance engagement, encourage content creation, and provide a platform for members to showcase their writing skills or expertise in specific topics. If there is a significant demand or interest in having a blog section, it may be beneficial to enable and allow them to use it.

 

[saoussen57651]

It depends if you have forum software that is free one or paid one because this seems to be on paid versions of software and not free ones, free ones you could only have your profile and not your blog in this case.

 

[Heatman]

Having a blog section within the forum can offer additional opportunities for members to share their thoughts, expertise, and experiences in a more long-form and structured manner. It can enhance engagement, encourage content creation, and provide a platform for members to showcase their writing skills or expertise in specific topics. If there is a significant demand or interest in having a blog section, it may be beneficial to enable and allow them to use it.

Truly, I see a lot of advantages which comes from making such option of having a blog sections available for your forum members because it adds an extra sort of discussion in your community that might end up generating its own traffic that will benefit the community.

 

[Shortie]

This is something I would love to bring to Chat Addicts if I am honest but the only blog system that would work well with Xenforo is a paid-for addon and I have not been able to make that purchase yet.

Not only would I love to allow members to have their own blogs but I would also love to allow members to write articles for the blog as well.

 

[Kane]

The software I am using does not have blog functionality, well they might add blog functionality by using add ons but I have not explored that option until now. However, users can post a long-form content,m a blog post, on the article section of my communities. However, the blog section is not for personal pieces, they still have to publish niche-specific articles.

 

[Shortie]

The software I am using does not have blog functionality, well they might add blog functionality by using add ons but I have not explored that option until now. However, users can post a long-form content,m a blog post, on the article section of my communities. However, the blog section is not for personal pieces, they still have to publish niche-specific articles.

That is understandable and I suppose that would also help you with content on your blog as well if people are wanting to help and add their own articles as well

 

[Kane]

In my experience, having a blog in your community, either in your main community or on a subdomain/directly helps you with traffic. Non-members hardly visit a community, even if they visit the community, they will have to open an account to post. However, if there are blog posts, they will stay for a while to read the blog. This will improve your revenue.

 

[Cory1]

I don't have a blog feature on my forum. It's actually not even a default feature of the Jcink software, though I did create a code to make a forum and topics look like blogs. I don't think it would get much usage on my forum if I were to add it due to people mainly coming there for resources and support. If I ran a primary general discussion forum, I'd probably consider adding blogs to my forum.