Today is International Blog Day.
[International Blog Day] is a day in which we celebrate our right to express ourselves online, and help each other to be heard above the din of spin and bad news… and in some places, help people to be heard despite efforts by governments, politicians or companies to silence independent speech online. - Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices
Take a moment to think about how blogging has changed your life. Do you remember the very first day you blogged? Go back and read your first entry and reflect on how you felt posting your ideas for the world to read. What ways have you changed as a writer? Do you feel the power and responsibility you have as a citizen journalist?
Every day, new bloggers begin their online journey, and blogging is such an important representation for the complete pictures of the news. Please take a moment today to introduce a non-blogger (especially somebody completely different from you) to your world and empower them to express themselves through your medium in celebration of International Blog Day.
We, at BlogBurst, are constantly amazed and inspired by the incredible research, journalism, and stories that lead to blog articles from around the world. We think what you do is very important, and we’re excited whenever we can convince a publishing partner to include blog coverage in their sites.
Thank you again for allowing us to help drive exposure to your work.
I am currently blogging a series of interviews with the very first garden bloggers, and it touches on some of these points you made in your opening paragraph. Garden blogs are just a tiny current in the blogstream, but they enable gardeners to exchange ideas–and garden photos–with like-minded people all over the world.
Thank you so much for this opportunity to expose my one-year old team blog, Purple Women & Friends, by, for, and about childfree women, to a broader audience.
I definitely feel a responsiblity to stimulate and continue a constructive dialogue…all in the name of civil disagreement — agreement is optional!
It’s all about the choice.
It’s amazing to me how much traffic my retrospective posts pick up. If you’ve been blogging for a year or more, I highly recommend going back and reviewing what you’ve blogged on and pick out what was the most popular, most outrageous, your favorie, your most underappreciated, and etc. This not only reintroduces new readers to your golden oldies, but can reinvigorate your passion for your subject.
When I took a vacation in real life I wound up also taking a vacation from my blog. The resulting disconnection led to about two months no posts whatsoever. My traffic started to drop and my readers were abandoning my feed. When it dawned on me that I had let my one-year anniversary slip by, I re-opened my blog editing software and went looking back through my stats logs and my post titles. The resulting one-year anniversary post recharged not only my engagement with the blog, but it helped spike my traffic to pre-vacation levels.
Old posts never die. They just get forgotten. Don’t let it happen to you!
Regards,
Rich.
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