This morning I have struggled a bit to get off the ground and coalesce into writing something that might be valuable to someone else. One of the things you see a lot with my blog is me attempting to be honest with my readers. This isn’t really the point of this mornings post but i would say if you are struggling with something… let them in on it. I’ve said before that blogging is therapeutic and at the same time lowering your guard a bit is too. Now I am not saying that I recommend this practice for everyone, because it does in fact give trolls an attack vector. The thing I wanted to talk to this morning is the interwoven relationship between blogging and social media. I can say without hyperbole that almost every one of my social media accounts exists because of this blog as I sussed it out as another possible syndication venue for my content. It is not a coincidence that both my twitter account and my blog both started in April of 2009, because twitter has long been the vehicle that bloggers get together to talk to one another. This is why I asked for twitter handle as part of the sign up instead of other social media options. I think the reason for this is that twitter is better than any platform at the quick distribution of a blog link. You have enough characters to provide a quick summary, a link and an image… [Read full story]
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