by Mopes

Created on: February 04, 2009

While both Helium and the blogging community is maintained by a huge number of writers, they are completely different in the way the information is presented. A blog is a place for a writer to give daily or weekly updates on a topic of their choosing. It can be used to cover basically any topic, from personal finance to a personal life. Helium is a place for writer's to share their knowledge; to write about specific topics to be shared with knowledge-seekers across the internet and of course the community surrounding Helium itself.

Both allow for a writer to be heard, but they go about it in two very different ways. These are just some of the most obvious:

1. Helium allows for more flexibility in the writing. You can write one article a week, or ten a day. If you were this sporadic in writing for a blog, you would quickly lose an audience. This flexibility isn't limited to frequency of posting, but also to the topic itself. As a writer for Helium you can choose any topic and get started. On a blog this would just appear to be a sporadic assortment of posts with no potential for learning.

2. Blogs have absolutely no quality control. A writer can post a series of letters and numbers arranged randomly, and it really doesn't matter. On Helium, if your writing doesn't maintain a certain level of quality you lose out on much of the earning potential that the site offers and of course the readers that being number one brings.

3. Helium is maintained by an entire community. Without the hundreds of writers that support and maintain Helium, it wouldn't exist. You couldn't have such a comprehensive list of high quality topics without the huge community surrounding the site. Blogs are generally supported by just one writer. This has it's own limits.

4. Blogs have the potential to be personal. As a writer for Helium, your writing has to be topic-oriented. This forces the information to be educational instead of just simply... information.

5. Helium users are not required to maintain a website. This is one of the major benefits of being a member of the Helium community. You don't have to worry about generating traffic, or coding a website. All of the boring technical stuff is handled for you; all you have to do is write. This allows for the writer to focus on what matters most.

Many bloggers write for Helium, and many Helium users have blogs. But Helium is not a blog. Thanks to the community surrounding Helium, there is literally thousands of articles where you can learn just about anything. It would take hundreds of blogs to provide the sheer amount of information that can be found on Helium.

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