As part of our assignment for Week 1 of the Digital Marketing Internship, we each had to find three blogs focusing on either digital marketing or being eco-friendly to follow. At long last, I have found several that I’ll be keeping an eye on from now on. For each, I have summed up the pros and cons, but don’t take my word for it – check them out for yourself!
Blog 1: Digitology – The Digital Marketing Blog
Pros: Updated very frequently and consistently by someone working in digital marketing, includes relevant digital ads (sometimes eco-friendly even), and based in Dublin (Irish accent sadly not included in blog).
Cons: Perhaps too many ads and not enough written content for my liking, but that’s why I am following more than one.
Blog 2: Tiny Choices
Pros: Many different contributors, strong “girl-power”, tips on how to make everyday things (yoga) even MORE eco-friendly. Also, this blog includes a lot of DIY ways to become more eco-friendly, although I don’t see myself knitting napkin rings anytime soon.
Cons: Wordy reader-filled surveys are posts on the blog. Don’t get me wrong – I think it’s great to question your choices and how they affect the Earth, but reading about other readers’ tiny choices gets a tad tedious.
Blog 3: Advertising Age’s DigitalNext
Pros: Reliable source, wide variety of topics but all still relevant, more professional than most blogs out there. According to Wikipedia, its parent company (Crain Communications) is headquartered in Detroit. How could I resist?
Cons: None yet, save that some contributors’ pictures are in a different format from the others. I’m not picky at all, am I?
All in all, I’m greatly looking forward to learning from these blogs, and hope that someday my own blog can be as helpful to someone else!
Hi there,
I have a blog on digital marketing if your looking to follow the news and get insight into this area. Im not saying its any better or worse than those you have found but you may find some useful information on it and I keep it pretty up to date.
If you have any feedback Id love to hear it
Rob
thanks for the kind words about Tiny Choices! the reader surveys only go up on Fridays, so you can always skip that post.
Hi Jennifer – I’ve been meaning to drop you a comment since I read your post in September, but alas work has been keeping me super busy. Thanks very much for the mention, and I must say I do completely agree with you – I have been letting comentary pieces slip lately and I really do need to start getting back to writing.
thanks again – Christian