My Favorite Blog

It was very hard picking my favorite blog because a few of my friends do a great job blogging. As I was reviewing each of their blogs, trying to decide which one I related the most too, I found that each of them have very similar formats and set ups that immediately grab my attention. None of the formats are busy. Each blog is simple yet extremely unique in various ways. As I narrowed it down to two blogs, I started to just look at content. Which blog had the most interesting and enriching content? I finally came to the conclusion that my favorite blog was “have a little hope”, found on Tumblr.

The blog, “have a little hope” is a very simple blog that my friend, Hope, created for pure enjoyment. She wanted a place to record her daily reflections, music, videos, quotes, and other random discoveries to help start others days off right. When you first enter the blog, the most recent post is first on the page and as you scroll down, older posts are below in a straight line with nothing on the right or left. It is simple yet grabs my attention instantly and directs it to the image of the day. Her writing style is very casual. She posts quotes, inspiring commercials, songs, tv episodes, bible quotes, and the list continues. She posts whatever made her happy that day. I am intrigued and incredibly interested in this blog as well as her writing style because it is inspiring in such simplicity.

Hope has many great things on her blog but I think the best element is that she always posts something new and very rarely repeats herself. Every Sunday, she posts about the Gospel and Homily at Church but besides that, she rarely discusses similar things. Something good that Hope does is that she adds her own commentary to her blog posts. Most of the times, she adds to the quote, song, bible verse, etc. but she can try and improve on doing more of that. I think it is important to add your own opinion on every blog post, whether it is a reaction to something or a simple statement discussing why you chose to post this on the blog. I think that she needs help with posting everyday. I understand that she is a college student with a wide variety of activities she participates in as well as a heavy course load, but in order to keep the intended audience she would like, she has to be more consistent on posting every day or a couple times a week. I think that if she sets aside a time each day or a specific couple of days a week, she will be able to continue positing regularly and opening up her audience to a larger amount of people.

Hope does not do a great job with using social media to promote her blog. The only form of social media she has used was Facebook when she first set up the blog a couple of years ago. She has a twitter but rarely uses it and definitely does not use it to promote her blog. I think that this is an area that can be improved and in return, she will gain a larger audience. I tweeted at Hope to tell her I really enjoyed her blog but I have yet to receive a Twitter response.