Lesson learned from other ed bloggers
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005After posting my ‘Lessons learned’ from blogging, Will posted his ‘lessons learned’ and so did Nancy. I really liked reading their thoughts. Nancy particularly liked this one from Will. So do I.
Weblogs are personal. It doesn’t matter what I blog about, I leave a
piece of my soul every time I blog because I’m always feeling the
reader on the other side of the screen, imagined or not. I’m not just
putting words out there; I’m putting a part of myself, and even though
I’ve been doing it for four years now, each post still feels like a
risk.
Then Nancy
My blog posts are better if I am reading and thinking about what others have said. Now, I didn’t imagine that I would have that
kind of a blog, but I do. I thought I would probably keep amore
journal-like blog than I have ended up doing. I think that was due to
my own lack of confidence. When I started blogging I hadn’t read that
many blogs; I didn’t know much about what was out there. I had read Dan Gillmor’s blog and Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs,
and I certainly couldn’t begin to put myself in their category as
bloggers. So, to my way of looking at it, I would have to be more of an
online journaler. Over the months I have been blogging, I have lost
that idea and and have developed confidence in my ability to blog on
topics of more importance than my own life. So I have to read a lot.
And that is good!
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