5 Reasons Why I Blog
5 Reasons Why I Blog - Tagged by Stefanie Sigurdson
- Knowledge: In my line of work, everything is cutting edge. Though the rules might not change from day to day, the game itself shifts and turns. If you don’t see the curves or anticipate what you’re going to do around the bend, you’re going to be left behind. If I’m in this for the long haul then I have to be on peak game all the time. Keeping this site forces me, on a daily basis, to stay in touch with the world of social media optimization.
- To Shake Down the System: It doesn’t matter what field you’re in. From real estate to fashion design, people get stuck in a frame. They refuse to get out of the box or even to consider that what is out there might be worth looking at. If you’re one of those people and are in the search business, I have my sights set on you.
- Community: I have spent the better part of the last 5 years building communities online. Most of these have overlapped with life outside of cyberspace and that’s something I enjoy very much. Part of social media should be about building the online portion. If done well, this will translate offline. I’m all about social media building real connections.
- Experimentation: With new social media optimization sites, services, and tools being introduced all the time I could read all day long and never fully grasp the power inherant in any of them. Having this place gives me a place to play.. to try new things and weigh their pros and cons.
- To Share: What’s the point in anything if you don’t share it with others. Even Siddhartha on journeys into his inner self set to share the experience with others. This is my life. These are my thoughts. Take them for what they are worth.
Guess it’s time to pass these like the good little chainmail buddy I am 
I’ll pass the phatty to:
Web Marketing Watch - Alex McArthur - Lyndoman - David Wilson - AkPandaMan
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Thanks Dave! PandaMan did it too, though apparently MySpace doesn’t believe in trackbacks. So that’s 2 down…
- Phatty received -
In all honesty I’m a very weak blogger. I have yet to transition from my large database (shoebox) full of writings (sticky notes). If I could just get out of the habit of writing my thoughts down and type them instead I’d be a world renowned blogger by now. Plus I’d save a few trees.
However, I do find the time to blog on occasion and here’s why (I’ve ranked your terms as they apply to me):
1) Community - More than anything I enjoy the responses I get from readers. I’ve gained quite a few LinkedIn connections through my site as well.
2) Knowledge - *see your definition
3) Experimentation - *see your definition
4) To Share - *see your definition
5) To get chicks
Badass Alex. Wondering how number 5 will pay off for you.. or maybe it already has!
Sage responded as well with a video reply that didn’t trackback but it’s cool to see something in a different format… Web Marketing Watch
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Excuse, and what you think concerning forthcoming elections?
I would say primarily third and fifth points reflect the same thing. You build a community per se to share with others what you have and gain what they have.
That is infact the underlying philosophy of Web2.0 where you’re sharing via various means user-generated content.