Social media rolleth on

Having ignored my blog for (oooohhh) about a year, I’ve been drawn back into blogging not least because of the incredible blogs and bloggers I’ve read, met and chatted with … and because they’ve given me something which I really needed.  That being the belief that I too can do it.

It’s addictive experience reading other peoples blogs and finding that you agree or disagree but respecting the fact they’ve taken the time to write one in the first instance.  So with renewed sense of energy here comes mine again..

The fact that anyone can blog today, the tools are free, the platform is ready built and its easy ! (hey even my mum can set up a blog – don’t ask her to use a video recorder though and the microwave is a bit of a mystery still for her)…  its the discussion, thae dessimination of information which I love ..  everyone gots a voice and no one needs to feel or be alone again.

There are some fabulous things happening in society as a result, people opinions are being heard. Isn’t it fascinating to see how its being used for the US elections.  I was with a friend last week and we were watching the Twitter comments following on from the Palin / Biden debate.. we were reading people chatting to each other and it was all happening live!

I’m loving this new freedom of expression and loving the blogs I’ve come across in the last year.

So here are a few of them because they deserve a shout out:

www.nitmesh.com

http://darmano.typepad.com/

www.jonathanmacdonald.com

David Armano – oh my god – what a dude – his blog is visionary / brilliant and one day I would love to fly over to the States to hear him speak.
He writes about people who blogging – and those who do and those who don’t..
See what you think because it was probably these points more than anything that go me going again.
Enjoy!

Several years ago, I gave this presentation at a blogging conference. I wanted to help people become better at blogging and I made a point which may or may not have been fully understood at the time. I suggested that we stop calling ourselves “bloggers”. My broader message was that unless the act of blogging itself was indeed your core passion—you should identify yourself more closely with what your true passion is—whether that be writing, sports, design, marketing or perhaps being a parent. Here’s some more food for thought on the subject matter. A bit tongue-in-cheek, but maybe it can get us all thinking. Here’s 10 reasons to stop calling yourself a “blogger”:

1. People are only nice to bloggers because now, they have to be.
2. Blogger sounds like “booger”. Ew.
3. Bloggers are so 2006. “Microbloggers” are the new bloggers.
4, Most successful bloggers have written a book. That makes you an author.
5. If you haven’t written a book, you’re just a blogger.
6. No one really wants you to blog about what they did at last night’s party.
7. Blondes have more fun. Bloggers have more fights.
8. Bloggers are now respectable, like journalists and lawyers. Except no one trusts journalists and lawyers.
9. The word blogger rhymes with “jogger”—subliminally recalling images of head bands, knee highs and short shorts.
10. Bloggers only talk about blogging. You’re more interesting than that.