Category Archives: Weblog as Power Tool

Would you like to be writing your weblog a few years from now? Can you even stand the idea of blogging for that long? I don’t have the answers for you, but it has made me think about my own future as a blogger.

This recent interest in blog survival was triggered while reading an online discussions on why people give up their weblogs. The common thread seemed to indicate that the bloggers simply ran out of gas and lost interest. Some appeared to have only short-term goals for their blog.

There are millions of weblogs of every type with an average lifespan of several weeks, yet there are weblogs that have been operating continuously for many years.

What makes the difference?

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Wayne Hurlburt at Blog Business World has opened the door to another evolution of your weblog – the ultimate power tool.

His post on Bloggers Helping Bloggers envisions the development of a support net for our blogging colleagues in their quest for gainful employment.

He makes this point:

Since a blogger’s writing and analytical abilities are displayed on a daily basis, we have a solid idea of that person’s talents. We know how well they write. We have a sense of their strengths and weaknesses as people. We know they are likely to be an asset to any organization that they join.

Wayne credits Jay Solo for the original idea, but he has taken the idea and run with it. I really think he is on to something. Helping another blogger find employment extends our personal networks and provides interesting copy with all kinds of human interest angles.

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If you are older than thirty, I am sure your mother warned you about people who carried on conversations with themselves or invisible friends. These are the people beset by circumstance or bad judgement who attempted to cheer themselves up or talk out their frustrations on the way to, and from, work. Before there were blogs, these people spent their time muttering to themselves as they went about their daily lives.

You should understand that these were not the castoffs from mental institutions that now throng the streets screaming obscenities. These were everyday people trying to get it together somehow.

Today, we have millions of people pouring their hearts out on the internet and most of them have an audience at one time or other. I’m not sure that the size of the audience makes a difference to those who write. I think it’s the act of writing and the fact that someone may be listening that is helpful. If someone responds, all kinds of things can happen. Perhaps some of them are good.

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