I attended Beer & Blog last night at the Brazen Head, apparently the first of these revamped get togethers amongst folks who are (apparently) more consistently inspired than I to keep adding current entries to their blogs. This is my first entry in over 13 months.
The nice thing about a blog is that it can be used in such a wide variety of ways, from being a marketing tool to literally, an online journal. Two of my favorites are by Seth Grodin and Michael Campbell - Mick makes me laugh and both make me think.
There's a lot of talk about how blogs can help drive business, build brand identity and overall, create commerce, which is true enough. If you find a trusted resource 's blog helpful often enough, you'll eventually end up doing something with them that compensates them for their expertise. Or that's the idea anyway. I have purchased a copy of Michael Campbell's book and read a couple of Seth's (unfortunately, I don't think Seth collects a royalty for the number of times one of his books is checked out from the library).
It's not that I can't write on a topic when I want (or need) to, I just don't get motivated to without a deadline. I dated a woman for about 18 months that was big on journalling (late 90's with bound books full of blank paper). She thought I needed to express myself and was very adamant about encouraging me to take to time to write. I created 3 entries the first week. The first one was a page and half. The second one was about a paragraph. The third one was 2 sentences.
My fourth entry was the week after we broke up.
Maybe my next entry here will be less than 13 months from now, but I'm not sure. I'm happily married and SHE doesn't push me to write.
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