Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The "Why" of your blog

I went to PodCamp Pittsburgh two weekends ago, and sat in on an excellent session by Michelle, the talented writer behind The BurghBaby, an excellent blog. I was excited to meet her and even more impressed after she was done speaking.

The essence of blogging, she says, is to know the "why" of your blog.

That seems so simple, but it had eluded me to that point. It's important to know why you're blogging, otherwise you'll be all over the place and unfocused and what's the point of that?

Simply put, I want to write about things that interest and/or bother me. Whether anyone wants to read that, I have no idea.

I'm hoping the list of things that bother me isn't longer than the list of things that interest me. Because bitching all the time isn't really interesting either, even if it's done in a clever way.

So I'll probably be writing a lot about being a working mother. I am one, and there is no end to the things within that spectrum that both interest me and bother me. Mommy blogging isn't for everyone, but I think that's where I'm headed anyway, so why fight it?

There. Glad I got that off my chest. And special thanks to Michelle for helping point me in the right direction.

1 comment:

  1. You gotta do what you gotta do. Bring it with the working mom stuff, any useful wisdom will be dutifully passed along to my wife who is feeling the pinch of doing 40hrs plus baby duty with a husband who tries to help and means well, but probably isn't all that useful in the end.

    And thanks for the shout-out in one of your recent posts. See you on the twitter.

    Cheers,
    Tim, meatshield, size of life, etc.

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