Why I Blog & Why I Want to Blog Better

[Cammy Bean]

I wrote my first blog entry over a year ago, but didn't start posting in earnest until about February of 2007. I had started tuning in to the blogs of other e-Learning professionals, and realized there was something going on out there that I wanted to be a part of. I'm a social creature at heart, working in a small organization -- I can sometimes feel a bit isolated.

Blogging as part of a community has expanded my office walls immensely, allowing me to forge new connections (and even friendships!), stir up some business opportunities, and learn learn learn.

I've become a part of the Building a Better Blog Community because I see how taking your community to the next level and truly engaging with a group of smart, motivated, funny and caring individuals makes it way 'moh bettah!

[Kate Foy]

Agree about expanding the office walls via this marvellous social-learning application. I've always been a time-poor academic conscious of the fact that I do not publish enough ... not enough time to write. This year, since I have been blogging on a regular basis, I have managed to get two papers published, and I know it's because I've written a little every day or so. That little expands a lot over time, and the cutting, pasting, and shaping into the paper that results seems to take far less time. I'm smiling!

[Michele Martin]

It's insidious, this blogging stuff, isn't it? You start out reading a few and the next thing you know you're hooked and everything is potential blog fodder! I agree wholeheartedly about the social learning aspect. In some ways, I have found deeper friendships online than in the "real world"--whatever that means. I count you among those people. :-)