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To Blog or Not to Blog …
- August
- 3
6:53 pm Australian authors, Chit-chat, Parenting Teens, Reading, Social Media, Writing
… that is the question! Actually, that’s not quite true. The question is really what to blog about.
Here on the Footprints blog, my ramblings tend to be focused on a couple of themes: Footprints Women’s Ministries Inc; reading; writing; parenting teens; with the occasional forays into fashion, church life, or anything else that happens to take my fancy at the time.
The Footprints blog is not your everyday, garden variety blog, because it’s NOT just about my thoughts and experiences. It actually started as a mechanism to let our friends and supporters know what’s going on in the world of Footprints. But where does the world of Footprints end, and my world begin? They’re not that easy to separate!
I have sometimes worried that I should stick to Footprints matters on this blog, and start another blog for more personal writing. But there’s a few reasons that I haven’t. I was going to say that I’m lazy, and one blog is quite enough but I realised that would be lying … the reality is I’m just so busy that taking on another blog would probably be foolish. And then I would have the dilemma of writing something, and then trying to decide the best place to put it (it’s bad enough now - should my latest piece go on the blog, in the FOCUS ezine, or on the pages of the Footprints magazine itself?!).
I reassure myself by remembering that editors are people too, and that’s okay! Think of the editor’s column in any glossy magazine. Yes, they tell you about the magazine but they often share about their own lives … and these are the bits I probably love the best, because it helps me identify and relate to them.
From the feedback and comments gathered on this blog over the past year or two, I suspect my readers here are much the same. Because it’s my personal anecdotes and reflections which seem to receive the biggest response (judging my your comments anyway).
So forgive me if this blog continues to be a bit of this, and a bit of that; in fact, I hope you’ll enjoy it. Because that’s what life is like. You just can’t compartmentalise one part of it and keep it separate from another – they are all inextricably entwined, joined together, to become one beautiful whole. And all for the glory of Jesus!
7 comments
Very true! I started a ‘family’ blog but never use it. It’s too hard to run 2 blogs 
Posted by Narelle Nettelbeck, on August 3rd, 2010, at 9:47 pm. #.
I like bits of this and that! And I like reading about you 
Blog on. I do
Posted by Tabitha Bird, on August 4th, 2010, at 6:58 pm. #.
I’m one of the few ‘addicted’ who own many blogs. And there’s a time and purpose for each one. Some are short-term, some ongoing and longer term, some are just holding bays for information that I plan to do something with much later down the track (like another book for example).
Those blogs that I write to regularly, be it weekly, monthly or ad-hoc all have their own readers – which is why I have separate blogs. Some are business blogs, some relate to personal interests (like photography and gardening) and others are more personal.
Do what is right for you and don’t worry about it.
Posted by Kathie M Thomas, on August 5th, 2010, at 9:55 am. #.
[...] the Footprints mail this morning (had to squeeze Footprints in here somewhere LOL … see previous post!) and received a cheque from a new reader who not only wants to subscribe for three years, but [...]
Posted by footprintsaustralia.com » Five for Friday – Things That Made Me Smile, on August 6th, 2010, at 8:15 am. #.
I would love to start my own blog – but wonder what to make the main theme! Maybe on the balance between “Health and mysealth” I have alot to blog about that! Lots of lessons I’ve learned and the major; is on how to balance my health and not over focus or under focus.
Posted by JJ, on August 6th, 2010, at 6:28 pm. #.
JJ, just blog as the mood takes you … and let it take its’ own shape. I never intended for this blog to have personal stuff in it (eg parenting teens) but that just happens to be something I’m passionate about and experiencing at the moment, so my readers get to hear all about it LOL!
Posted by Webmaster, on August 7th, 2010, at 2:48 pm. #.
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What a great post. The many God inspired layers of ‘you’ are all worth sharing.
I never eat the food off my plate one item at a time. I love to mix it all up until it looks like a colorful mash. lol! I love it when flavours combine – it makes for a more interesting eating experience. Much like blog reading. When the blog owner adds a portion of this and that, and I get a hit of amazing thoughts and experiences…. I’ll come back for more:)
Blessings
Dotti
Posted by Dorothy Adamek, on August 3rd, 2010, at 8:28 pm. #.