Why I Love Blogging, after all these years...

It's hard for me to express all the ways and reasons I'm in love with blogging. Denise did a fine list over on our Build a Better Blog. Andy Wibbels posts a great read over on Typepad's blog.

Like a good husband, you might not always treat your blog right, but you always come back to it. Here are a few of my reasons why:

1. It helps me think. I go to write a post and I try to answer this question: What do readers need to know? How can I teach them key points about writing on the web that will be useful and fun? What am I learning myself that needs to be shared?
2. Publishing my posts helps me stay in touch with key people and connect with new visitors. Readers often stimulate my thinking. When they stop by and leave a comment, I'm really touched.
3. Blogging forces me to grow. I can't afford to do, think, and write the same 'ol stuff. I have to learn what my readers need so I can help them, and they help me by driving me to learn.
4. Since Typepad makes blogging so easy for us non-techy folks to do, I love it because I feel powerfully geeky and smarty-pants-like... heh, heh, even I can do this!

I would like to reprint some gems of Andy Wibbels' post here, just in case you don't click the link and read his entire worthwhile post over on Typepad...

I Love Blogging: Intersection of History and Biography

But one thing about blogging that I love is teaching it. It is so rewarding to watch someone's face light up or hear them say Oh! when they click Publish and suddenly what they just wrote is available for the entire world to see.

No matter what you are facing in your personal or professional life, there are others out there that are going through the same thing and others that have survived it.

I love blogging because it is a way for us to remind each other that we aren't alone. We're all in this together.

Because this is Typepad's Valentine Day challenge, I am now tagging YOU to write a post, "Why I Love Blogging." Hit the comment link below and share how blogging has changed your world. Here are five people I'd like to see post about this topic:

Boris Mahovac
Meg Montford
Newt Barrett
Kathleen Gage
Pam Slim

Comments

[Janet Barclay]

I would love to join this challenge, but I wrote a post on a very similar topic just last week!

http://www.janetbarclay.com/2009/02/04/the-benefits-of-blogging/

One thing I forgot to mention in my post is that blogging forces me to keep my eyes, ears, and mind open for interesting ideas and topics that I can blog about, which keeps me learning constantly.

[Boris Mahovac - Email Marketing Coach]

It's 11 pm now when I got pinged by a Google alert - will come back tomorrow, ok?

Thanks Patsi.

[Boris Mahovac - Your Ezine Coach]

Thanks Patsi,

Here's my list:
http://www.yourezinecoach.com/2009/why-i-love-blogging-for-business-and-fun.html