Topic #226 Revisit January Blog/What I have learned since then

New to blogging? This one’s for you.

Here it is August 22, 2011 and I have been posting a day all year for the Post A Day Challenge. When I started this challenge, I just signed up to find out if I could actually blog each day. What was so perfect is that Scott Berkun added topics so that each of the bloggers could post something about it. Here is my post from January 26^th 2011.

As I reflect as to what I have learned:

• It is okay if I cannot post a week, due to family issues, job loss, job hunting, or unforeseen circumstances. I can post a week and go back to post a day when it is more appropriate.
• I learned that the topics are great but some of them I choose not to write on. Instead I came up with other ideas on my own.
• I learned that it is important to include an “ABOUT ME” page so that other bloggers would be able to get to know the “real scoop” about who I really am and many bloggers did read it.
• I learned that I love to read other bloggers writings and make comments, which in turn built a wonderful friendship between bloggers. I now know that when this challenge is over that I would maintain friendships with blogger friends from all over the USA and Internationally.
• I learned that this challenge was not as hard as I thought it would be and enjoyed the interaction and reading about others.
• I learned more about wordpress.com and all of its features. I have added and subtracted from my own sidebar to learn each of the features it does have.

I learned that I wanted to blog more and I have thus created other blogs such as these:

http://therealtruthaboutbeingachristianwoman.blogspot.com/2011/08/f…

http://thewritershelp.wordpress.com/

http://postadaychallenge2011.com/

http://getreadingnow.wordpress.com/

http://divorceissues.wordpress.com/

http://dailydigestblogchallenge.wordpress.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4989871-jackie-paulson

http://www.facebook.com/TRUTHSEEKER1966

http://spiritualnetworks.com/TRUTHSEEKER/

http://www.editing4ebooks.webs.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/thewritershelp

http://twitter.com/thewritershelp/

I am an expert Networker for Others _Jackie Paulson_

http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4989871-jackie-paulson

http://postadaychallenge2011.com/

http://getreadingnow.wordpress.com/

Here is the original Posted on January 27, 2011 by Erica Johnson| 21 Comments

If you’re looking for pointers on how to focus your blog, get more readers, and improve your writing, check out Molly Campbell’s Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Writing.

Molly’s tips were published as a guest post on Heidi Turner’s blog, The Happy Freelancer

 

My Posts from the ‘postaday2011’ Category

• 01.28.11Post #39 Is Venting Good or Bad?
• 11.28.11Post #29 Do you want to live Forever? YES!
• 21.26.11Post #28 How to remove pet stains
• 01.26.11Challenge for 2011: Want to blog more often?
• 21.25.11Post # 27 Funny Cartoons Today’s Laughs
• 01.25.11Topic # 26 Guerrilla Marketing During Tough Times Book
• 01.24.11Post #23 Basic Lawsuit 101
• 01.24.11I’m Posting every day in 2011!

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