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07.25.07
There Is Something More To Blogging
 By
Kimberly Krause Berg
What brings people together isn't always understood, but I'm starting to believe that when we're touched deeply, there is a hook of some sort, even if we can't label it. It's something we feel but can't always put into words.
What keeps us together, returning, or tied to each other may be something unique, confusing, private and unexplainable. The incentive to hold on can change, even on a whim. It's this way with relationships of any kind.
It's this way with blogs, forums, and anywhere people interact on the Internet. We're hooking up with each other, but how we do it is all over the place. We're even cruel, if that gets the job done.
How to Blog
All the advice you read about how to be a blogger conflicts. I can't remember a time when I ever bought into any of it. This particular Blog reflects me as a business owner, consultant and professional person. It also let's readers sit on my deck, relaxed and ready for off-topic stories. I always provide them here, mixed with something useful.
I sometimes wonder why people stop by. Have I hooked you somehow? Why do you return? Did I tick you off? Was something I said important and what I find most fascinating of all, did I connect in a way you can't even understand yourself?
My posts are all over the place. Many are like this one. They come flying out of nowhere and you wonder what I've been smoking. I once told someone that though dead tired, I still had to write in my Blog. For him, it is work to post in his Blog because he targets clients. I target everybody, and that's a huge risk.
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When I need to express myself, I write because I have great trouble with verbalizing what's in my heart and mind. Whenever I try, I convey big ideas at the level of a third grader with brilliant phrases such as "I have no idea". It took awhile to get up the courage to put personal observations or thoughts here, of course. It's always debatable whether or not I have something worthwhile to say, that anyone could relate to. Some readers just want a professional stream of straight news or information.
What Relationships Are We Developing Now With Blogs?
How blogs are used by journalists is a topic Tamar Weinberg wrote about in Does Social Media Have an Impact on Today's Journalism? You Tell Me.
She feels that today's journalism is directly effected by social media and blogs. It may be so, but if it is, I'm alarmed because facts don't live in social media and blogs. Our opinions do. Our observations. Our reactions, biases and feelings live in the social Internet. How can you trust that a story originating from a Blog is written clearly, so that no misunderstandings can occur? How do you know what a Digg article claims is actual fact?
A Blog can post a breaking news story, with something more inside it that wouldn't be permitted by traditional news media. Maybe we are making a mistake. Are we dumbing down the news by becoming sources for it?
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Usability Consultant, Kimberly Krause Berg, is the owner of UsabilityEffect.com, Cre8pc.com, and Cre8asiteForums. Her background in organic search engine optimization, combined with web site usability consulting, offers unique insight into web site development.
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