Archive for the ‘Business Blogging’ Category

Personal Development: Blogging Is a Way to Find a Voice

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Reasons to Write Every Day

Everything we write has an audience. Even a private journal has the author to read it. The more we write, the more we get experience with words, learning what they mean in varied contexts. As we look back over what we have written, we listen, consider, and question its power and impact.

Blogging has an audience that responds and reacts. The comments let us know whether the message we send is received fully and intact. By blogging often we develop a voice that is consistent and more natural. As we learn our personal writing habits, we gain confidence that powers our message forward. As we listen to our readers, we more finely tune our message to communicate with them.

Blogging gets us closer to a clearer voice that people understand.

Liz Strauss
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Professional Development: Blogging Makes Better Thinkers

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Reasons to Write and Publish Every Day

When we have an unexpressed idea, it sits in our heads incomplete. We imagine we know it, and possibly even see it, but the test it when we have to explain it to another human being.

Writing every day makes us better thinkers. It moves us to take ideas from our minds and describe them with words. Publishing those words invites an audience to react and respond — we find out whether the message we sent is the one that they heard.

It’s a challenge to simply state the feelings, thoughts, and scope of an idea in precise and expressive ways. Unlike talking, which allows us to adjust and respond with tangents and corrections, writing and publishing come with an expectation that we’ll set out a thought clearly stated.

The commitment of words to written form draws that has an audience is a powerful incentive to think things through . . .

Liz Strauss
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When People Blogged in Person . . .

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

17th Century Blogging Experiences

In the 17th Century they called it a literary salon. . . .

A salon is a gathering of men and women to participate in formal and informal discussion centered around a specific topic. . . . which may include politics, literature, art, fashion or business. . . . The participants sought to increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, . . . the practice continues today in many cities around the world. Wikipedia

We gather on a blog to read and discuss in the same way.

Knowledge increases. So does trust.

Relationships happen.

People like to work with people they know, like, and trust.

Does your business blog?

Liz Strauss
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