January 25th, 2009

Some Ramblings On Blogging

As I fully expected, my blogging journey so far this year has been full of new learning experiences. Mostly good experiences and some challenging ones. Something I wanted to touch on today is what having a “personal” blog means and why you should have one.

I have done a lot of thinking about my blog and what the purpose of it should be. Should it be to teach others something I know, or to share experiences, or should it be to brand myself or even something else? Other thoughts that I have had is who am I trying to target with my blog? In the end I have come to the conclusion that a “personal” blog should really be about anything you want and the target audience should be whoever the heck wants to read it

A personal blog is all about you, the blogger. Now, that may sound a bit egotistical but it is true. The point of a personal blog is to write about your experiences and share a little piece of your life with the world. Not only that, I feel another good use of a personal blog is for it to be used as a reference. What kind of reference? It doesn’t really matter. If you are a coder you can post code snippets which you find useful and that may need in the future. If you are a Mom with a kid you can document milestones in the kids life. You can document whatever you feel like.

There are a few things that I want to achieve with this blog and I have documented some of them in my about page. Mostly though I want to be able to look back in a few years and say “Hey, I remember when I was working on that project” or “Where is that useful little code snippet that I documented” etc. I want to also connect with my readers and be able to launch open-source projects and get feedback and even contributors.

One thing I have found is that the key to successful blogging is to keep posting . As long as you keep your blog active and post a few times a week you will definitely build a readership and start reaping the rewards. I have started lots of blogs before and all of them failed in the end because I didn’t keep them active.

And that is about it for tonight. I slacked off a little last week and missed a few posts but all will change this week I have a ton of drafts that I need to finish and I am really looking forward to getting them out

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