Blogging
About two months ago, I got so frustrated with the comments function on my blog that I decided to turn them off. Yep. One big machete-like chop and they were gone and with them went … a lot of grief and anguish and irritation. [Cue big sigh of relief!] Anyway … I just remembered one…
One of the super-duper benefits of blogging is that is clarifies your thoughts and ideas. It crystallizes them. For me, it helped me rehearse and refine my ideas … and thus better communicate them with others. After I did two blog post series on subjects, I found myself in conversations with others in my field…
I just did a phone interview with a reporter from our state daily newspaper about blogging. And in the interview, it seemed like I keep coming back to the idea of the popularity of blogging being attributed to it being relatively easy for people to do it. I said this comment directly, which I’ve said…
I love to see friends (and clients) make the news and be successful … Penelope was recently featured in a TV segment about professional blogging here. It’s a pretty neat feeling seeing her book in Barnes & Noble too. (Not to mention her book is packed with some excellent and unconventional career advice.)
I like the comments policy of the Blog Herald. It’s a good idea and something I’ll probably be doing on my blogs as I continue to get spam, and otherwise irritating and distracting comments on posts. If you blog for long in almost any field (unrelated to your dog or cat), you’ll find self-promoters who…