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Tag: <span>Blogging</span>

Tag: Blogging

You are not creating content, you are creating

In his 2010 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Mario Vargas Llosa, spoke lovingly about what reading and literature had given him saying “Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams”. He goes on to say that without literature, without writing the world would be a darker, more tedious place. “We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.” You will note that Llosa did not speak …

A blog will change your life

I recently had a twitter conversation with Australian blogging royalty, Trevor Young. He reminded me that in the 1990s blogging was called journalling, which evokes images of hormonally confused teenage girls writing about boys and bitchy girls. It is an important distinction. Journalling implies something deeply personal, something from the heart written with integrity, authenticity and for an audience of one. Blogging on the other hand can be something deeply personal or not it is entirely up to the writer. A blog is written for an audience, of one, one hundred, or one thousand. The best blogs are written with …

Build your team with blogging

A mate of mine was telling me that he blogs all his meetings to inform his team about what’s happening and what he is promising clients. He works in a large healthcare network with thousands of staff so stakeholder management, transparency, and cost control is very important. He told me that the blogging meant he didn’t have to repeat conversations and everyone was kept informed. I reckon this is a nifty way to use social media tools to manage a team. It’s inexpensive, easy to use, and easily allows for team engagement. Sure Basecamp works great for project management and …