One of my challenges as I neared my half century was to become more technology minded, another was to get what I wanted heard out to other people, still another to share information. While I was working out how to do this I was tinkering away with the web.
Once I had discovered 'gmail' through another organisation suggesting I subscribe.I now really thank the young lady and also a mentor of mine for using GMail themselves as I found this system not complicated and pretty on the eye. When I felt like a change I stumbled on how and why answers. So a visual change occurred usually with little stress and also within a moment.
Next I discovered blogs. It took me a while to work out how to do these. That there was also more than just writing something and hitting the publish key. Simple things like remembering the passwords, which email belonged to what site was fun...until I wrote it down and printed the page off. now I have it stored in excel and regularly update and print off. A copy kept, would you believe, in a non-descript folder near by, in another locked room.
The Blogs through Gmail have so much going towards them. There are many ways to make them interesting. Other ways of making a living from them. Essentially there are two interlinking goals to achieve. one is to create traffic through the sites. The second is to have a strong regular updated reader basis which encourages other readers and in turn writers wanting to post to and through your sites. Readers making comments, rating and sharing of the posts, and pages on your blogs is a terrific readership increase. The more readers the bigger the hit flow. The more your message is seen, read, hear and referred back to.
Thus said, have you made comments on anything yet? Written anything you would like me to post for you yet. Even 200 words will start you off. You may have discovered it's easy to write a post and publish it. And that is where things stay. You have a low readership basis. You become discouraged.
Name a blog GMail / and the type of title you want your blog to have. At a later date when the traffic through you is enough for your blog to be seen and recognised by it's self (or when you tell me too) then I will export and import your blog onto your own site. Simple as that.
Meanwhile - Write what ever memories of early life and so forth. Then send them and I would love to do the linking to other sites etc. By budding up to an already known system (mine) is a way you get your name recognized by authorities in subjects!!!
Further have a 'nom de plume' Face book and twitter site that represents your business. As a lot of people have a personal and a business 'facebook', 'digg', 'twitter' etc site keeping things separate makes sense.
Almost every post that is finished (written, linked and so forth) then gets 'shared' around these sites. You are the author and the sharing goes through your name. There are other readers who may share your post through their systems, friends. Use your post as a reference for other information collateral systems.
It's not the writing that's the challenge. It's the filing, indexing and linking of the relevant information that I'm having fun with. Hence why I currently am enjoying the down time of running another small business from home. I can, and am, spending time doing this. Together we can grow and our voices be heard. This is a form of community development through a technology medium.
Apparently business pay a lot of money for people who can do this. So the sites I help with are an ongoing part of my resume.
Here's to hearing from you.
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