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Is being an expert a necessity?! (8 posts)

Topic tags: expert blogger

Dewane Mutunga said
1 year, 3 months ago:
There are plenty of study out there that show that people are increasingly more skeptical and tend to only trust authoritative figures (experts).
Do you think it’s necessary to be an “expert” on a subject to create a successful blog?
Do you think taking the approach of facilitator would work? Would you follow such a blog?
Ultimately, it comes down to providing answers to people’s problem and value. So I do believe the facilitator approach could work. I’d like to hear your thoughts and feedback!
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Judith Gotwald said
1 year, 3 months ago:
I write a blog about small churches. I am not seminary trained. I am not a pastor. But after blogging for a year, I am getting calls for advice and emails that address me as Rev.
Your last sentence is correct. It comes down to solving people’s problems. Experts are those who keep trying to help others with sincerity, experience and integrity, if not degrees.
Interestingly, I came across statistics provided by multiple researchers with remarkably similar results. In the world of church, about 75% of church people report that they do not trust their denominations. In other words, they don’t trust the “experts”!
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@mutunga I think people will naturally start to consider someone an expert when they demonstrate their knowledge time and time again in a selfless manner, ie. informative blog posts and answering people’s questions as thoroughly as possible without always pushing them to buy into something.
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Frederic Gonzalo said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@mutunga I agree with both @kristi-hines @judithgotwald on this. Being an expert is often something that resides in the eye of the beholder.
Albert Einstein once said: “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid”. In other words, we all have our own talent and potential to be expert in something, we just have to go and find that thing and excel at it.
If facilitating is your thing, than you can certainly provide value while blogging about various topics and thus be deemed an expert in that field.
Cheers,
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Stefanie Frank said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Your unique story and experience is a lot of what makes you an expert as well and draws people to you. This struck me immediately reading the input from @judithgotwald.
This video from Marcus Sheridan speaks to that when he says if he hasn’t experienced it he doesn’t blog about it (paraphrasing his words here).
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-use-content-to-increase-your-sales/
There are a lot of experts out there but you’re the only one who comes from your story, your approach, with your beliefs. People are drawn to that.
Cheers,
Stef
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Matthew O’Neill said
1 year, 3 months ago:
I have only blogged about things that have personally happened to me…its kind of like one of those, “you weren’t there, you don’t know” moments. I was there and I do know now, at least that’s what I tell my readers!
If you want to see how I use my personal experiences, I encourage you to visit my personal blog and see how I try to mix humor with real relationship issues:
http://myinnermostthinking.wordpress.com/
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Glen Gorham said
1 year, 3 months ago:
I think if you are not an expert, but really want to blog about a particular subject, just make the studying of the subject your blog and people will respect that even if you are not an “expert”
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Durk Barton said
1 year, 3 months ago:
One of the great caveats about leadership is that you will always get the blame if anything goes wrong. People have gotten much more suspicious of authority figures; trying times try ones resolve. Nonetheless, it’s a tough job; someone usually must do it. Or; it won’t get done.
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