Comments on: Making the most of your blogging opportunities: a cautionary tale http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Miscellaneous-Mum http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5996 Miscellaneous-Mum Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:45:52 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5996 Thanks guys for your opinions! Not that there's anything wrong with 'just' being a parenting blog, if that's all you want to be, or occupy. Perhaps I was rattled because that's not 'all' I want to be classified/alinged with. Thanks guys for your opinions! Not that there’s anything wrong with ‘just’ being a parenting blog, if that’s all you want to be, or occupy.
Perhaps I was rattled because that’s not ‘all’ I want to be classified/alinged with.

]]> By: Jean-Luc Picard http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5995 Jean-Luc Picard Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:41:23 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5995 I think the best blogs defy classification, or cover many areas. <em>Jean-Luc Picard's last blog post..<a href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YUAC/~3/NrbPV_8Gw34/enterprise-infiltration-by-section-31_12.html' rel="nofollow">Enterprise Infiltration By Section 31 (Part Six)</a></em> I think the best blogs defy classification, or cover many areas.

Jean-Luc Picard’s last blog post..Enterprise Infiltration By Section 31 (Part Six)

]]> By: Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5994 Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:46:39 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5994 I've never really thought of blogging as a launch pad to bigger and better things, at least not for myself. I don't have the creativity to generate new content indefinitely lol, I always end up burning out eventually. Hence, I start a blog. I end it. A year later, I start a blog. I end it. Etc. I do think, though, that those people who really put effort into their websites? They'll be fine, no matter how many interviews don't go exactly as planned. The fact is that they care and that alone makes an enormous difference in finding an audience, maintaining readership, and whatever else constitutes (by their standards) successful blogging. So I'm sure that the interview will be fine and that this website will just keep chugging along and that the book will be okay as well. The details like how you answered one question one time will eventually be forgotten under the weight of how much you've done with your blog. Period. (Of course, I could be wrong. Who knows? But good luck, all the same!) I’ve never really thought of blogging as a launch pad to bigger and better things, at least not for myself. I don’t have the creativity to generate new content indefinitely lol, I always end up burning out eventually. Hence, I start a blog. I end it. A year later, I start a blog. I end it. Etc.

I do think, though, that those people who really put effort into their websites? They’ll be fine, no matter how many interviews don’t go exactly as planned. The fact is that they care and that alone makes an enormous difference in finding an audience, maintaining readership, and whatever else constitutes (by their standards) successful blogging.

So I’m sure that the interview will be fine and that this website will just keep chugging along and that the book will be okay as well. The details like how you answered one question one time will eventually be forgotten under the weight of how much you’ve done with your blog. Period.

(Of course, I could be wrong. Who knows? But good luck, all the same!)

]]> By: Tracey http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5993 Tracey Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:35:03 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5993 I hope no-one that thoughtful reads my blog! <em>Tracey's last blog post..<a href='http://polarbearsandtracey.blogspot.com/2009/03/mellow-yellow-monday_09.html' rel="nofollow">Mellow Yellow Monday</a></em> I hope no-one that thoughtful reads my blog!

Tracey’s last blog post..Mellow Yellow Monday

]]> By: katef http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5992 katef Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:28:22 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5992 Oh that question scares the pants off me! Heck I can't even write my about page because I have no idea what my blog is 'about'.... it's complex and eclectic... kind of like me! Why do people have to put a 'niche' to every blog anyway!?!?! Oh that question scares the pants off me!

Heck I can’t even write my about page because I have no idea what my blog is ‘about’…. it’s complex and eclectic… kind of like me!

Why do people have to put a ‘niche’ to every blog anyway!?!?!

]]> By: tiff http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5991 tiff Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:27:10 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5991 A parenting blog only? No, I don't think so. Your blog stands out because we get a sense of who you are, what drives you, what is important. It's a window to your soul. <em>tiff's last blog post..<a href='http://www.mythreeringcircus.com/2009/03/on-waiting/' rel="nofollow">On waiting?</a></em> A parenting blog only? No, I don’t think so. Your blog stands out because we get a sense of who you are, what drives you, what is important. It’s a window to your soul.

tiff’s last blog post..On waiting?

]]> By: Anonymous http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5990 Anonymous Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:02:55 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5990 <strong>Mom Blogs - Blogs for Moms...</strong> ... Mom Blogs – Blogs for Moms…

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]]> By: Jayne http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5989 Jayne Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:28:23 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5989 Like B I wouldn't have pigeon holed your blog under parenting, it's too eclectic for just one subject heading ;) <em>Jayne's last blog post..<a href='http://ourgreatsouthernland.blogspot.com/2009/03/back-in-march-flash-i-started-trivial.html' rel="nofollow">Back in a March flash I started Trivial on a 12 dash of History Jamaican rum</a></em> Like B I wouldn’t have pigeon holed your blog under parenting, it’s too eclectic for just one subject heading ;)

Jayne’s last blog post..Back in a March flash I started Trivial on a 12 dash of History Jamaican rum

]]> By: Mistress B http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5988 Mistress B Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:17:43 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5988 I got asked by a radio type person that other day what my blog was about and went blank. lol I talk about my kids at times, but I dunno that my blog is exactly a parenting blog. I wouldn't have exactly called your blog a parenting blog (maybe I haven't been around long enough). Sure you talk about parenting at times, but you talk about so much other stuff too. I got asked by a radio type person that other day what my blog was about and went blank. lol I talk about my kids at times, but I dunno that my blog is exactly a parenting blog.

I wouldn’t have exactly called your blog a parenting blog (maybe I haven’t been around long enough). Sure you talk about parenting at times, but you talk about so much other stuff too.

]]> By: D.Paul http://miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5987 D.Paul Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:28:43 +0000 http://www.miscmum.com/2009/03/12/making-the-most-of-your-blogging-opportunities-a-cautionary-tale/#comment-5987 I'm just ecstatic with the joy that you quoted Neil Tennant. I loves me some Pet Shop Boys! I’m just ecstatic with the joy that you quoted Neil Tennant. I loves me some Pet Shop Boys!

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