day 1 / 31 Days to a Better Blog

[anamacha]

I'm getting started late on this, because I've been attending a four day conference on Traumatic Brain Injury. It was incredible. I am so glad I went, and I'll try to make the time to tell you about it.

Anyway, The first day of the 31 Days to a Better Blog Challenge is to create an elevator pitch for my blog

Comments

[ladytairngire]

Do you have a way of promoting your blog, your life, your vision? Please feel free to share.

I don't think actively in terms of "promoting" my blog - I don't think I'll be at that level until I'm ready to promote myself as a professional author. However, I find that if I want people to be more apt to read my blog than to skim it, a) keep the text blogs small or b) better yet, bulleted or otherwise interesting and/or c) keep the topic amusing, racy, engaging, or intruiging in some fashion. In other words, no one but your dearest friends want to read huges blocks of text in which you go on and on about how miserable you are.

[ladytairngire]

er, that should read a) keep the text BLOCKS small

[ladytairngire]

and by "otherwise interesting", I mean sometimes, especially in my early days of blogging, my posts look much like poetry in the way they were broken up. erratic, line breaks for changes in thought, that kind of thing. I enjoyed writing in that fashion, but it is not so reflective of my lifestyle at this time so it would be dishonest to do it now.

[anamacha]

yes -- this and your other comments are fairly congruent with the way I see the whole thing -- blog writing, and sort of promotions in general.

After all, noone is going to pore over the tome you wrote if they don't find it interesting and/or relevant to their own lives.

This is one of the reasons I think I stepped away from LJ for a while. I usually wouldn't get many comments on what I was writing, and whereas I know not everyone has time to write a cogent comment, that still was the only mechanism by which I knew people were reading my stuff. I know the journal is for ME, but I feel it important to be read. Otherwise I might as well go write on a brick wall and be done with it.

I wish there was some sort of reliable metric that LJ could implement -- this many people read one of your posts, this many people opened s comment box but closed it, this many people felt you interesting enough to go check out your user info. And so on.

Thanks for your comments!

[miintikwa]

I promote my blog by being upbeat, positive, and by promoting other people within it. If you're helpful to others, and are willing to promote *them,* you garner goodwill. And goodwill is a very helpful thing.

[anamacha]

yes -- I try to be upbeat and positive as well. But I don't do a whole lot of promotion here, whether of myself or others.

Must think about this. Thank you. You're right about goodwill.

[miintikwa]

You're very welcome!