Blogging

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Blogging this last month has turned out to be fun (for the most part) and not too dissimilar from the process one would apply to any other task you mentally say to yourself “I’m going to do this and stick at it”.

That said I rank blogging a lot easier than say giving up cheese for a month

I started this month having decided to partake in the #blogjune event.

An event that has grown quite dramatically in the numbers of bloggers involved compared to last years efforts as I understand it.

It’s not too hard to type something up each day. There have been days when I have not contributed anything to the event but that’s been ok also.

I think having the wherewithal to realise it’s ok not to post day in and day out for the sake of it has been a good learning for me from taking part.

It has also been nice to post something representative of ones thoughts or interests of the day on a fairly regular basis.

If I were to score my own efforts for the month of June I’d probably give myself about a seven out of ten with a gift card for a $5 coffee for reskinning the website half way through the month.

And if I were to look at where I get / got the most kick out of it from it would be threefold – comments, metrics and networking.

Comments – because it’s always nice to see someone comment on something you have posted. Positive or negative I don’t really care (well ok I would) but at least it shows me I started a thought process in my reader that generated enough internal momentum to want to put their fingers to a keyboard.

Metrics – because by using web analytic tools I can get a sense of which posts generated the most views and thus a feel for what I’m writing thats OK and what is DULL.

…and finally networking … this one I think is obvious – there’s a bunch of really talented people interested in similar issues to myself that I’ve discovered along the way, and that’s very cool.

So thank you dear reader for visiting and taking the time to read my posts.

I plan to continue onwards and keep posting to the site with an improved sense of frequency safe in the knowledge that it can indeed be fun, and rewarding, at the same time.