So, you started blogging. For whatever reason it was (teaching, personal, entertainment, or other), you must have learned something. What has blogging taught you?
For me, blogging has taught me a lot. I am a person that has a wide range of interests. I started with one site and ended up with several. However, a couple of them, I ended up knowing that I loved to help and teach others where I learned practically by myself. No many taught me b2 or WordPress. Not many taught me how to create graphics.
I painstakingly read books, and experimented. Every success was shared and my readers exercised those between 2002 to 2007. In 2008, I started refocusing. I also was a little burnt out. I networked with a lot of bloggers and they were more into not engaging so much. The few who did actually still blog today. Those who blogged the old way fell into three results: either having several blogs for different topics, totally quitting the blogging scene, or moved onto the social network scene for personal and entertainment reasons.
It was also in 2008, a new breed of bloggers started. They were new and had the same goals in mind. Some with good intentions, and others still not quite at the point to be teaching… however their readers learned along with them. Since then, I have enjoyed seeing the blog community grow. Although I am practically an evangelist for WordPress, I was happy to see what others were talking about and their opinions no matter the blogging platform or content management system. It adds a unique twist to anyone’s day. It also encouraged my own drive to continue on.
Just shy of a decade, and I am happy to be where I am at. I do have ambition to be a better blogger, but I know this one thing.
A long time I drove myself to be the top in the blog world, in a time where social networking was not emphasized much. I did well and had a lot of traffic, a lot of comments, and even visited and commented at other blogs. However, my blog was everywhere and just was not where I wanted to be. I did not want to mix my extremely personal life in the midst of sharing my love for teaching. I was not happy with this as I climbed too quickly and some of my better friends got left behind. I had to go back recently to search and reconnect.
Blogging has taught me many things. I have learned to try to stay humble about my blogging and not seem ‘know it all’ or forgetting those who helped my site grow. I have learned how to write and express myself better. I have also learned exactly what I want to do with my blog… well, blogs. 🙂
I know there will be a lot more to learn, even after 10 years of blogging. Please remain on my journey to keep learning if you have been for a while. After all, I have learned a lot from my readers too. 🙂
If you are a blogger or have been in the past, what has blogging taught you?
My goal with blogging was to strengthen my writing skills, also to share everything that I learn about WordPress and Web Design. So far I am really loving and enjoying what I do and hopefully in years to come.
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Yeah its good to write article for improving your writing skills but always consider that your writing should be knowledge full.
My goal with blogging was obviously to make money. But not just that i wanted to do everything fast as i can.
One thing that the blogging has taught me is the Patience.
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The best thing about it is that blogging taught to me to love and appreciate my chosen field of endeavor. And because of blogging, I learned to live a life full of enjoyment and excitement. For this, I am very grateful.
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Blogging has really taught me how many wonderful and sincere people there are in the world. It's a great community that I've been lucky to be a part of for the past several months.
Count me in as one of your loyal readers. I enjoyed your blogs very much so I will stay with you to another ten years of blogging success.
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It has taught me how to share our feelingd
Blogging has taught me to be patient- some things work and some don't. From a business standpoint, it's hard to be successful in such a personal world that doesn't have a lot of tolerance for a corporate presence.
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Blogging helped me improve my writing skills. Blogging also encourage me to read and read so that I could blog new ideas, information about different topics. Sometimes I get so bored that I can’t think of anything but luckily I surpassed that. Thanks to blogging.
Blogging taught me how to be responsible enough in my writings. Also, it serves as one of my resources of wide range of knowledge coming from different bloggers to improve my skills in writing and grammar. Blogging becomes my passion and my passion connects me to different people, love being connected and be able learn from them… a lot!
Tnx for sharing, I’ve started blogging and boy is there a lot to learn and digest!
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Blogging has taught me the importance of effective writing.
After college, with the exception of email/texting/profile blurbs, I had simply stopped writing.
Once I began blogging, I realized how poor my writing skills had become — it’s a skill, like anything else, that diminishes when not put to task.
I started by writing anonymous personal rants, and eventually found my way trying affiliate marketing. This meant learning the basics of copy writing and improving my overall communication skills.
Being able to write effectively — with a clear, likeable and persuasive voice — is not just helpful when monetizing your work, it’s also a great life skill that can help you in many social situation.
It gives me so much knowledge and taught me to expand my English language.
Blogging taught me to explore on internet without buying any domain or any hosting issue.. Its like our own website.
I credit my blog with teaching me more about my own area of expertise than anything else.
i used to think that writing was taking the expertise I had and getting it down on paper.
But frequent blogging has shown me that the act of writing teaches me more about the subject. in order to make my blog readable it forces me to think more clearly.
And the feedback I get from my blog highlights where my thinking is good and where it’s flabby.
It also taught me about communities and being human and humble.
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I started blogging and finding work at home. It was a bit lonely at first then I met a few good bloggers who wanted to reach out and share what they know. So I’m still here, still learning and hopefully one day I can be an inspiration too for those starting out.
Blogging has thought me how vast and amazing online community really is. Also, I’ve learned so much about marketing, SEO and all those things that remind me from day to day that new ways of economy are growing and evolving with each day.
Hi, Nile,
Blogging taught me many things…from niches, WordPress using, socializing, commenting… I started doing it to earn some money and most of the things I learned so far, I have learned thanks to some great bloggers’ posts I had been visiting and reading. You can never get enough of knowledge. Once you stop learning, your life is definitely over, both professionally and privately.
many things that I get from blogging. I learned how to write good, I learned how to read and good comment. I got many friends and many more that I get from blogging.
Blogging seems to be very powerful platform to add power to your social media campaign. Just with starting of my new blog and after few days I got good couple of real visitors.
Wow!its really cool to know a blogger who has been in business for a decade.Very few people have such kind of experience.I’m a new blogger ,my first blog just 3 months old although I’m not new to Internet Marketing.In my last 3 months of blogging experience the best thing I’ve learned is “Patience and Hard Work “are necessary for success in any field.
Blogging has turned out to be more than just a PR medium. In fact, the need to keep fresh organic content a regular constant has helped my business in more ways.
for example, i need to keep up more closely with trends and tribulations associated with fine-art photography and tattoos more so than in the past. i write articles about tattoo artistry as well as photograph ink in a fine-art format. hence, in order to keep my readers’ attention – i better know the up to date stuff.
i also teach college-level history, and at the moment i am configuring a blog that will allow my students to become more interactive and global – with regards to communication, history, and just good old fashion networking. accordingly, blogging will allow me to show the need for good articulation of ideas – which, i believe, is the life-blood of a strong blog….
i thought i was late to jump into blogging…turns out, it’s never too late……
I have always had a knack for words, so when blogging became the next new thing I decided to start a small blog which has now blossomed into an online business for me. Blogging has made me very social and in many ways when I write I feel like I am connecting to thousands of people on a very intimate level. I am 54 years old and empower women and some men to be their best naturally. One of my websites is all about anti aging, stretch marks, pregnancy and cellulite problems. What could be more personal than that. By the way, I have learned how to spell better, my grammar has improved and I have learned to be a whiz at photo shop. I am new to your site, but have bookmarked it and will return often to put my 2 cents in from time to time 🙂
Blogging has taught me many thing. It helped me improve my written and spoken English. No doubt it taught me how to make a network and how to communicate with many people. To be very frank, it has changed my way of living.
It gives us a voice to reach out to the audience, spread an awareness of what we loved to do, share common interest and most importantly I think is that we gain and expand networks not to mention becoming friends eventhough we are separated a few hundred miles apart.
Blogging comes as boon in my life and has taught me a lot of things. I can keep myself updated with the other blog visit and try to do something new. It helps me to improve the writing and also helps to learn English. Currently I think to do guest blogging and seem very effective.
I am blogging for almost 2 years now. To be honest with blogging I am exposed to almost everything improving my writing skills, research skills, I had chance get to know other bloggers. What I really priceless about it is I was able to help others and they also thanked me for some of my post.