What happens when the shell breaks in your social media experiences?
For me it heralded the end of the beginning, and about time too!
It has been around 6 or 7 months since I entered the blogging arena and I think the shell just cracked open to let me out. I started social-tango as a way of getting into the arena of blogging and getting social. It has been quite the incubation. But certain things happen, and they should, and those things cracked the shell of my newness in blogging.
So What happened?
I stopped!
I stopped blogging, I stopped being engaged, I stopped tweeting, I stopped blog commenting and I just began to think. I thought about all that I was seeing. I asked myself some questions and decided that the answers needed addressing.
Why was I doing this in the first place? And how was I going to continue if I could answer the first question?
Well…
I am blogging because it is the natural outlet for someone like me who has been through a very long journey to arrive at this place. I blog because I am a blogger and not because I want to be one?
What do I mean?
Like everyone else, I started to blog without a whole lot of experience or understanding of what it was all about. I had read books, looked at blogs and followed some interesting blog writers. But, I was still having to learn to ride the blogging bike myself. I think things are about to change. Phew!
At the core. I answered one question. Am I blogging because I am blogger or am I a blogger because I blog?
Social-Tango is about to become more my social blog, a personal posting of things I find out, like or don’t like; and some other stuff along the way. I intend to have a business blog by April/May, and their will be more about that here later.
What is coming up next?
I am pulling along on many fronts at the moment. I’m learning what blogging is all about and the Why I blog and the How I am going to blog is coming into focus. So I am making some needed changes.
A new theme for this site is on its way by the new year. I want to present the posts in a more visual way and I think I have found how I want to do that. I hope you will like it too!
A business attempt is getting its feet too, and now that the shell has broken I’m all in for this adventure. It will have a few online things associated with it, and more on that as the new year rolls out. It will have a blog, it will have products and it will be offer other things too.
I have been learning.
Head, Hands and Heart.
Using my Head to think.
Using my head to think things through and ponder all that I have observed on this blogging thingy. There is a lot of crap out there posturing as ‘the real thing’ and it takes a while to learn the difference. Should you want to see the difference then check out: Jim Connolly, Danny Brown, Mark Shaefer, Jayme Soulati, Margie Clayman, Ruth long and sister Jules, John Falchetto and a whole lot more too… These are the real deal, in my eyes anyway.
Using my Hands to practice.
Using my hands to practice by doing this blogging and reaching out thingy is and has been a shell breaker of the first order. You can’t phone it in, nor can you pass the cheese and call it content. Let’s see if I have the skill now to pass the next steps of coming out of the shell and grow: in value to anyone who reads my posts, comments and generally stick poking attempts at engagement.
Using my heart to come to terms with all of this.
I have embraced some people online through blogging that I would never have come into contact with in any other way. I really appreciate them too. I mention them above and I hope you check them out. These individuals are the real deal online and offline I am sure too.
So with Head, Hands and Heart united in what is coming up next, I look forward to delivering a better experience to anyone who reads my posts.
