Do you know how to blog?

Verb on Blogging.

Active is the word to describe what a blog should be. "Active" as in "moving along". Blog when you have something to say and even when you don't.

I don't know how to blog, so don't ask. If blogging were a real talent, I would not know how to describe blogging to anyone as I am still a novice myself and wonder why anyone reads blogs. Well, I read them when they are interesting, informative and uh, funny.

I don't have a problem with a blank page, I can fill up a blank page (or screen) pretty quickly. But would anyone want to read it? Probably not. And, guess what? No one does. My blogs are various and wide spread. I post in at least one blog a day and to my knowledge, almost none have been read. So, why would I continue to blog? To clear my mind? To haphazardly spew out words and verbs to the stratosphere?

Not really. I just want to add links to my websites. Some blogging places do that quite well. So I blog.

The thing I need to learn is how to do it right. Make my ramblings count for something. If someone had read one of my blogs, just once in the last month, I would have fallen in love. No doodah man.

I suppose one of the reasons (other than the links) that I love to blog is to read my own words on the screen. How stupid is that? Pretty much:

"Stupid is as stupid does." - Forrest Gump

But, I can tell you that it is a necessary "active" part of being a copywriter. Write, write and write some more. I actually don't care that people do not read my blogs - as long as google likes them, I consider myself well read.

Verb

Cyphering on blogging..

Yo Buddy,

I have been thinking that blogging would be a good thing to do as all the newsletters, e-news, websites and yadda, yadda, yadda ALL say what a business booster blogging can be for your business. I write out my thoughts all the time in about 10 different blogs to keep my hand in on writing in general so I don't sound like a doofuss when actually sitting down to write for something meaningful. It does help sometimes.

It has helped my vocabulary some but I do still sound like a doofuss most of the time. I just type, type, type. I did figure out a couple of things so far.

My last blog entry was geared towards the website of a cyber friend. It is a web site that I particularly like and helped me know a lot about the fellow. I liked him when I started reading his pages. It also gave me the idea of doing something similar for a couple of my websites. Maybe. I don't want to steal someone else's ideas but my thoughts and his thoughts are going to come out differently when written down so I am thinking it will be OK. Plus, what I write about will be my own subject matter and not his.

I did figure out that if I put something in the text of the body on this blog that it will show up in google when you use the tags that are entered. Yeah, granted that is pretty basic information but have you looked? I had not when I set about writing this particular blog. Now, I know that I can blog about something of interest to me and other people might find it if I keep to the subject and tag it correctly. WooHoo! This is NOT new news but knowing (and not guessing) is real knowledge. I guessed it would work that way after reading it about... oh... 1,000 times. HA!

I kept telling myself I would look into it when I had time. I have never had that much time. It seems that until a thing is proven, I hold back to the bitter end. Like with the DVR. I just updated our cable TV last month to include the DVR and the DVR service. When it comes to getting into my pocketbook - I can hold onto a nickel until the buffalo poops. I am not a tightwad, just frugal. Sounds better too.

Back to blogging in general. Since I have a gob of web sites I could have created my own blog area a long time ago. I didn't and still do not want to "spend" the time involved to learn how to build and manage any blogging space on the internet. This site will do just fine and it is free.

I can save another nickel.

I wanted to blog today even if I had nothing (once again) to say - 7-7-7!
21 is my lucky number. If there is such a thing.

Until next time - keep 'ur puck moving.

EB
buddy web works