Are you blogging? If so, why are you blogging? Are you looking for fame? Fortune? Notoriety?
Why do I blog? Because I enjoy writing. I recently was told that blogging is only 20% about writing. Says who? What is driving me absolutely nuts lately is all these "experts" that are coming at me to tell me how blogging is about marketing and advertising and brands. My blogs aren't. My blogs are about the information. The blog is the medium that I use to distribute my information. This isn't the internet reinvented, it is just another publishing medium. Blogs made publishing easy for non-technical people.
Now we have some of those non-technical people are running wild and ruining the freedom and information sharing that the internet should be by telling people what blogs should mean to them. Those are the people busy cashing in on everything they can. These are the majority of people in attendance at BlogWorld... what you use a blog for is as personal as how you wear your hair. There are personal blogs, there are professional blogs, there are corporate blogs... mine is personal and frankly I want to keep it that way. Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me how to do it, just help me do what I want to do better.
Why do you blog?
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I blog cause I like to share my thoughts and ideas, kool links, geeky stuff.
I could care less about the fame and money aspect of it. If that would happen then great (doubt it will :D)
When I started reading blogs I didn't have a profile & was commenting under anonymous. I didn't think that was fair to bloggers. They may be baring their souls to me & they didn't even know from one anonymous to another who I was. So I decided to create a pseudonym/profile. Once I got that far it was a small just to create my own blog. It has improved my English writing skills. But what has kept me going is the community that I have become part of. I have met every single blogger in my "Local Kansas City Area Bloggers". We have been gathering usually about once a month since April 17th 2007. You are welcome to join us.
That's the same way I feel. Hope to see you on Tuesday.
I blog because I feel that I have gone through an awful lot and it's my hope that maybe someday someone will read one of my posts and understand that they might not be alone and maybe somehow be encouraged by seeing something else that someone has gone through and have their day brightened. I dont believe that my struggles only benefit me but that maybe we can all collectively learn by understanding what other people have gone through. Maybe one blog won't change the world but maybe -- just maybe -- the idea might catch on.
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