31 day blogging challenge: Days 7 – 10
The 31 day challenge continues. I wrote a reflection post on BlogCascadia the other day. Another aspect of this process I have noticed, is the group is starting to teach each other at new levels. The interaction is deepening. Read more »
31 Days Blogging Challenge- Days 2, 5 & 6
Improve your blog, Improve your reach
I continue to work on the 31 Day blogging challenge, albeit in a bit of a random order, as time allows. Turns out, this was a good thing, as I learned more from my Day 2 ‘First time reader’ audit than I might have.
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31 Days to a Better Blog- Days 1-4
Darren Rowse from ProBlogger issued a challenge to spend time each day for 31 days to improve your blog. Michele Martin from The Bamboo Project asked her readers to join her in sharing the experience of applying the daily tips. I accepted the challenge from Michele to look at how I can improve the VisualsSpeak blog and the ASTD-Cascadia blog that I also administer and write for.
First impressions of the first four days- this is not going to be quick fixes and tips to transform your blog in five minutes or less. Like anything else, if it was easy, it wouldn’t be hard to be really good at it, so I shouldn’t be surprised. How to find the time to improve and continue to write for two blogs at the same time will be the first challenge.
Other side effects of blogging.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the unexpected aspects of blogging. At that point, I was talking about the challenge of seeing myself as a writer, and the benefit of how blogging shifts and clarifies my thinking.
Where is the time to implement all these new ideas?
The practice of writing has given me insight into places in my business practices that aren’t as clear as they should be. It has been a catalyst for strategic re-evaluation. All this clarity is great, but how am I going to find the time in the day to implement this new found clarity. It’s like coming home from a powerful workshop or conference bursting with inspiration only to be greeted with the pile up of email, voice and snail mail (not to mention what can happen to the house).
I need to find a way to structure space. I can’t keep cramming new things into an already full space, whether it be physical, emotional, intellectual, or simply the hours in a day.
- What will I stop, start, and continue?
How will I decide?
How will I gain support for those decisions from those around me
Unexpected aspects of blogging
I thought about blogging for quite a while.
But I’m not a writer.
The first big barrier to get over was the voice of the evil English teacher in college. Mind you I do not remember the person’s name, or even if it was a man or woman. What I do remember is sitting in class during the second week after turning in our first assignment. The professor handed me the paper with a big red C- on it and said something in a loud voice in front of the whole class about my having absolutely no talent for writing and was lucky to have any credit for the assignment at all. I walked out, dropped the class, and avoided writing for almost 20 years until I went to graduate school. Avoiding writing wasn’t even necessarily conscious, it was like touching a hot stove and just learning not to do that again.
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