MovableType, Blogger, WordPress, TypePadI figured out a couple of days ago that if I want to really make a good living out of blog marketing, training people on blogging, and advising corporations in Singapore how to establish their blog to reach out to their stakeholders, I must learn more than WordPress and its plugins.

While WordPress is a brilliant platform for anybody to get started, I think a trainer has to be a master, and mastery is about knowing as much as possible, about the race within yourself to be better than yourself.

Giving a go at other platforms

So there I went, I started some other blogs – blogs in all kinds of combinations in the three most popular blogging platforms, WordPress, TypePad/Movable Type, and Blogger, all in the hosted and self-hosted version, using the platform’s subdomain, as well as my own domain. The TypePad account and using my domain on a WordPress.com blog costed me some money, but I think the investment is worthwhile the experience. Besides, its a very small investment anyway. I’d skip a meal today and another tomorrow to recoup the money. :P

But of course, I’m not going to market or post everyday on all 12 blogs! That will kill me! :mrgreen: (hey, I’m human okay?) These blogs are more of exploration and learning… and also for demonstration for the upcoming workshop I will be holding (hopefully in January).

After trying out all the combinations – I must say, the self-hosted version of WordPress is still the easiest to learn and manage (or maybe its because of my prior experience with PHP applications). It took me several tries before I managed to get Movable Type working – working with CGI and Perl isn’t as friendly. :)

I’m quite impressed with Movable Type once I got it installed – its functionality is very much like Blogger – files are created when you hit publish. This is not the case for WordPress because WordPress uses all the mod rewrite stuff for nice URLs as permalinks.

WordPress still rocks! :mrgreen: