To Blog or Not To Blog

“Blogging is free; it doesn’t matter if anyone reads it.  What matters is the humility that comes from writing it.  What matters is the meta-cognition of thinking aobut what you’re going to say.”  Seth Godin

If you knew that there was something that you could do that would take roughly a half hour a day to do it, and that doing that something would change your life forever — would you commit to do it?  Explain your answer.

I will write down all these things as a testimony of what the LORD will do. I will entrust it to my disciples, who will pass it down to future generations.  (Isa. 8:16; NLT)

Most of you have heard of Tom Peters, best-selling author of In Search of Excellence as several other powerful books in the field of management and leadership.  What if you heard Peters say, “My first post was in August of 2004.  No single thing in the last 15 years professionally has been more important in my life than blogging.  It has changed my life.  It has changed my perspective.  It has changed my intellectual outlook.  It has changed my emotional outlook.”

In my book, that’s a pretty powerful endorsement of the practice of blogging.  Blogging is part of that social upheaval spawned by the Internet and more specifically Web 2.0, characterized by the fact that most of the content now comes from the user.  That’s you…and me.  We’re the users.  And we’ve all got something to say.  Others may or may not be interested in what we have to say, but as Seth Godin says in today’s quote, that’s not what really matters.  What matters is the change (aka growth) that is produced by merely writing what you have to say.

Yesterday, I received Godin’s daily blog and in it he had four very short videos (each under two minutes long) in which he and Tom Peters were talking about blogging and other social media modalities such as Facebook, Twitter, and the like.  I found their remarks fascinating and I believe you will as well.  Take a few minutes today to watch and listen to two of the greatest visionaries and thinkers of our day as they discuss the benefits of  social networking.

Prayer Power
Father, sometimes we are so hesitant to express ourselves.  Some of that hesitation is due to fear, some to inadequacy, some to esteem, and like.  We ask You to encourage and inspire us to open up and let it flow.

Link of the Day
Seth Godin: Four Videos

Blessings on you as you explore launching a blog.

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