THE POWER OF THE BLOG

Main stream Social Media can be fun. You showcase your life happenings and sit back waiting for the likes. However, after you have shared your family, trips, parties, special tricks, best dog, and even your second best dog, you begin to yearn for more. The Social Media Blues start to slip in. You long to share the real you. Your thinking, views, talents, and creativity. Not just short life blurbs. So you search the other 35 social media websites, only to find that all but a few are like the site you already use. 

So where do you turn? One of the best places is to start a Blog. One that you control instead of it controlling you. They represents a great platform for expression. Blogs can have images, videos, and text. It is the text that tends to tie Blogs posts together. Blogs date back to the early 1990’s, first used by reporters, researchers and creators to share information with colleagues. In a sense, they were the forerunners of websites. Today, there are 600 million blogs. These still are dwarfed by the 1.9 million websites, but Blogs often are inspiration for those sites.

Blogs offer us the opportunity to pause, look at the world, write about it and share that with others. Mark Schaefer In the excellent article “10 Benefits of Blogging Even if Nobody Reads it” discusses how Blogs can fuel your personal brand, how posts can be combined over time into larger projects, how they build personal growth and discovery. They give confidence and weight to your voice in the vast jungle of social media. 

It’s hard to know who might read or discover your Blog. The real power of the Blog, though, is that you will discover yourself….