Hi,
I am back with fresh news. After browsing through 190!!! more blogs, I managed to find two more valuable candidates. Imagine that I have browsed through around 260 blogs so far!
So, without further ado, the second nominee is.....
| BLOG | http://hrpadawan.wordpress.com/ | ||
| Author | Niels van Hellemont | ||
| Criteria | % | Details | Total |
| Total number of posts | 15% | 10 | 1.5 |
| Google Page rank | 10% | 1 | 0.1 |
| Total number of comments from readers | 15% | 11 | 1.65 |
| Blogger's HR relevant profile | 20% | 1 | 0.2 |
| Number of posts with advice that can be actually applied practically | 25% | 9 | 2.25 |
| Number of months the blog has been live | 5% | 11 | 0.55 |
| Consistency | 10% | 4 | 0.4 |
| 100% | 6.25 | ||
Niels' score is not very high, but I nominated him here because he has great potential and he needs to be supported to go on on this path. All his posts are very well documented and I can see that he's passionate about the field even if his experience comes from HR internships.
The third nominee is.....
| BLOG | http://www.ameetingwithhr.com | ||
| Author | Kelly Weinheimer | ||
| Criteria | % | Details | Total |
| Total number of posts | 15% | 127 | 19.05 |
| Google Page rank | 10% | 1 | 0.1 |
| Total number of comments from readers | 15% | 10 | 1.5 |
| Blogger's HR relevant profile | 20% | 10 | 2 |
| Number of posts with advice that can be actually applied practically | 25% | 58 | 14.5 |
| Number of months the blog has been live | 5% | 9 | 0.45 |
| Consistency | 10% | 7 | 0.7 |
| 100% | 37.6 | ||
Kelly's blog impresses by the great number of posts, however, she needs to be more consistent and engage the readers more as I see great potential in her too.
Coming back to the blogs that didn't deserve unfortunately to be nominated, here are some more details that I can add to my previous post. The rest of the blogs were not nominated because:
- they had severe lack of consistency (the posts were sometimes from March, then December);
- a lot of them had 2-3 posts only and a huge amount of commercials;
- a lot had promising descriptions on Technorati, but when checking what the blog had to offer in terms of looks, information, easy navigation, everything was disappointing;
- some were abandoned after the first post;
I can also separate the blogs in 3 main categories:
- top blogs - consistent and ongoing for years; full of useful information (about 10%);
- former top blogs - blogs that used to be valuable, but stopped posting after 2-3 years (another 10%, of course rough numbers only);
- 80% of the blogs were low level quitters - blogs with low number of posts, abandoned for years, created just for ads.
I have to admit that all my findings are sad, but what I can confirm is that the number of real HR bloggers is very low, so if you are good at it, it is a great niche.
I will be back with more nominations and with the final winner at the end of the month.
Take care,
Geo