The danger of reaching out to others is that it becomes a business-like transaction, where you don’t really talk with the other blogger but you do mindlessly comment and re-tweet their work in the hopes that you’ll get some form of payback. This means ‘a location or situation where people are conversing’.Ĭommunity is great on it’s own, but without a decent conversation, how can you have that connection with others? There’s a whole world out there, so what are you waiting for? ConversationĪ conversation, like community, can be broken down into two distinct components – ‘converse’ and ‘situation/location’. And I advise anyone who hasn’t started to cultivate their community to do so, immediately. To put in simply, you could imagine the community of blogging as one big networking event, where everybody has a name badge with their name and blog title, and they mingle around checking out each others work whilst striking up some amazing connections.Ĭommunity is great. I love the community that I’ve become a part of, as it’s enabled me to not only meet up with dozens of amazing bloggers, but I’ve also had the pleasure of reading great material, commenting on that great material, connecting with the blogger about that great material (and more), and retaining that connection with that blogger. This is where you connect with the myriad of human beings out there, and learn and laugh so much. In a nutshell, I think community’s pretty darn important.īecause this is where the magic of blogging happens! These blogs largely discuss what community means and it’s impact on blogging. I regularly visit community-driven sites such as The Sales Lion and Conversion XL. If you’ve followed me at all recently, you’ll know I’ve been vouching for the value of community. Doesn’t that sound wonderful? Unity in communication. I think it means ‘unity in communing’, or better yet, ‘unity in communication’. When I think of community, I have a tendency to think like a literature professor and split it into it’s two components – ‘commune’ and ‘unity’.
I recognized the treasures for what they were. At first, I didn’t know what I had in my hands, but then I recognized.
You hav e found the helm of raedwald cracked#
I hunted through new blogs, new lands, new voices, until I finally reached that treasure chest, cracked it open, and discovered two beautiful treasures inside.
It won’t come to those who sit around their blogs all day and wish the world would do them a favor! So I scooped up my hunting gear, girded my blogging ship for new shores, and like good ol’ Captain Jack Sparrow I set out for the elusive treasure chest that only comes to those who seek it. I needed to stop moping around my own blog’s dashboard and actually make an effort to be successful! To take my blog to the next level, I needed to step up my hunt for the treasure chest. Sure, I’d checked out ViperChill and ProBlogger’s, Secrets for Blogging (affiliate link), and followed the advice in there, but that was only one point of information. So instead of finding out more about blogging, and learning from the great experts like Darren Rowse or Brian Clark, I decided to do it myself and go it alone.
Which was great, but it wasn’t going to help me blog.
You hav e found the helm of raedwald Offline#
I’d only checked out a few blogs before I got started myself, and of those, most of them hadn’t been specifically about blogging – they were about football (soccer) or great books, or some other offline passion of mine. I didn’t really know what I was doing, what needed to be done, or what would really get me to where I wanted to be. When it came to blogging, I was at first clueless. It’s because we love to blog, and because we love the two great treasures that blogging provides. Why do we push ourselves to churn out posts that we sometimes doubt? Why do we stay up until the early hours of the morning to finish up a guest post? Why do we constantly read more and more blogging material when we could be out there in the real world playing in the sunshine?
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