Admittedly I’m a fairly outspoken individual. I enjoy engaging in conversation and do so regularly – with whoever is around to play devils advocate. Throughout my childhood and into my adult life I’ve always enjoyed being social and fairly outgoing. Talking to people, regardless of the circumstances, has never really been a problem for me. However, for the first time in my life I’ve found myself to be pretty much speechless. The reason? Blogs.
I don’t know a whole lot about blogging, or the blogging world for that matter, so I had a fairly open mind when I found out that I’d have to create my own blog for online PR. The first thing I did when I found out that I’d be creating my own blog was some research. I started reading blogs. I read up on things I like such as hockey (and sports in general), music, organizations I find interesting, and so on. I read a wide variety of blogs and have even bookmarked a few. But, even with all of my bookmarked blogs and growing insight into the blog world, I’m still not an active ‘blogger’. I am, for all intents and purposes, a passive blogger. I read them, some I follow regularly, but I don’t post any comments. I don’t have anything against posting I just haven’t yet. I haven’t posted yet because I haven’t been able to think of anything substantial or relevant to write.
I found the same problem when I was trying to write the very first article that was to appear on my own blog. I couldn’t think of anything that I could write about that other people would want to read. Maybe it’s my naivety and greenness with respect to the blog world, but from what I’ve experienced so far blogs seem to be for the most part glorified online diaries. And please, before anyone gets personally offended by that comment, look at the source. I’m new at this. I really have no idea what I’m doing yet. But, I’m willing to give it a try and find out what all the rage is about.
What I do know though is that a) One of the things that attracted me to the PR program at Centennial was the fact that the course administrator had a blog that seemed to be relevant to the field
b) Blogging gets a lot of coverage . Serious blogs, and bloggers, seem to carry some big time weight in their respective fields/industries
c) With the growing emphasis on social media and technology with respect to PR/marketing/communications, blogging is no doubt going to be an essential tool in the future.
That’s all for now. Any thoughts?
