My very first meme comes from Pearl the shy and talented elf? who authors Interesting Observations at http://www.fresh-perspectives.net. Thanks for tagging me Pearl!
Why do I blog? Primarily because I can. . .
- Basically I mean, I live in a time and place where people worldwide, can if they would like read my thoughts and share their thoughts on life, family, faith and friends, or whatever we want to talk about.
- Hosting and designing websites on the side has to have some benefits, one of mine a free blog! Well no more than I already pay monthly for my Reseller agreement. . . 😉
- Building connections and helping people has to have some outlet, a blog contains a simple but effective way to do just that.
Blogging has essentially dissolved borders allowing me to instantaneously access the viewpoint of people all over the world, which would never have been possible with any other activity(Hey I really like this one, . . . but I won’t steal Pearl’s!)- Blogging has become an essential tool in the tool belt of small business, this blog is one small part of marketing my services and skills.
- I enjoy it, I basically write what I like, and when I like, it is exciting to find new ways to Post and improve my site. For example, I think I’ll add my top 5 things I’ve learned by blogging and reading other’s blogs that have been useful to this site.
- Shared Feeds by Google! Google Reader, lets me share interesting reading and other blogs easily. My Shared Feeds
- Customized Favicon!
- Helpful 404 pages. See my example of one I did at my Wife’s site. Notice the Site Map, Search and Helpful information.
- Postie! The best email posting tool via wordpress around. I use this a lot, and I especially recommend it if you host and design for clients, mine that use it love it!
- Adsense ~Google’s Adsense has helped me monetize my Find Wireless Internet Site and has pocketed enough to make me pretty happy about 3 months of use on a low volume site! < 200 page views a month If you like it then please Sign Up through the link below . . . 😉
Okay, it’s not a meme if I don’t tag 5 more people with this meme. . . I tag :
> Misty my beautiful and talented wife. @ mistyscott.com
> Shoemoney of Shoemoney.com If you want to learn some things about online SEO, marketing and monetization. Yep he’s your guy.
> Sanbro of Computer Mobile Corner A friend from bumpzee!
> Sephy Roth, another Bumpzee friend who has created a nice little Blogroll US blogs Sephy’s Platzish!
> Prudent Musings another friend, who I’m not sure I know his name. . . from Bumpzee. . .
Okay I have a few more people in mind, I’ll tag you all next time . . .
Thanks for letting me participate Pearl! 🙂
C
those are really good reasons Glenn (or C?) 🙂 thanks for participating and even though I thought at first the only reason I want to blog is because I feel I have something to say and this is the best way to do it, now I am finding I do want to learn ways to make money via blogging if I can! Its really great your niche blog is doing great… may be I need to learn to do that ..
Hi Pearl ,
Thanks, ! C is short for Carazariah my online moniker, I use my real name on this blog, because a whois tells anyone who I am. 🙂 I use Carazariah on most online forums and stuff just so I can filter potential spam.
C is just short for Cara Azariah (Cara from the Greek for Exceeding and Abundant Joy (Luke 2:10) and Azariah from the Hebrew (Dan 1:6) one God has Helped)
C
🙂
Great list! I enjoy blogging for the ability to communicate and share ideas with a variety of people.
Guess how I got here today? I was reading the $10,000 scholarship at Darren’s site and thought of digging it, and then clicked on ‘who blogged about it’ tab and there, you were the only one listed there and I thought that was pretty neat that I knew someone on Digg also 🙂
then out of curiosity clicked on my link up there, and was surprised it took me to a completely strange site 🙂 there is a hyphen between fresh-perspectives!
hope all is well at your end! I am going through some of your shared feeds… nice collection!
tc and kit
Aye. . . what a bummer. . . 🙁 I copied in your link wrong way back when I first blogged this! Wow!
I’m working at a University now. So I thought some of the Students might happen to read my blog so I figured a $10k scholarship would be interesting to them!
🙂 I like Digg’s blog this tool . . . it really is nice.
I’m glad you visited and are enjoying the shared feeds. . . Google Reader rocks for this type of application!
Oh since you are perusing, I just implemented a Mashup map on my http://www.findwirelessinternet.info/mashup it has a google map with little pins representing some of the ISP’s I have listed. .. Mashup is really fun, it took me way to long to make it work, but once it worked wow!
Hope you are good, I’ll update those links today ! . . . ugh. . . sorry bout that! I’ll have to search for you and add you as a Digg Friend. . .I don’t have many. . . 🙂
Glenn
(Hmm. . . too many pearls on Digg, what’s your username?)