Comments on: Dancing with Yourself http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/ strategies, tools and processes to empower knowledge workers Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:34:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Matt Moore http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2839 Matt Moore Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:04:23 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2839 Steve - I can only echo the comments that you and the other commentors have made. Everyone has their own reasons for writing a blog and, like most people, I track how many visitors I get. I get about 30 visitors a day. But they are the right 30 visitors (apart from those who used "gratuitous nudity" and "exhibitionism" as google search terms). People who comment and interlink and all that good stuff. Which makes me think this is an example of "do as you would be done by". I want people to leave relevant, intelligent comments on blog. I want active readers. So I have to do that for other people. Otherwise it's not going to work. Steve - I can only echo the comments that you and the other commentors have made.

Everyone has their own reasons for writing a blog and, like most people, I track how many visitors I get. I get about 30 visitors a day. But they are the right 30 visitors (apart from those who used “gratuitous nudity” and “exhibitionism” as google search terms). People who comment and interlink and all that good stuff.

Which makes me think this is an example of “do as you would be done by”. I want people to leave relevant, intelligent comments on blog. I want active readers. So I have to do that for other people. Otherwise it’s not going to work.

]]> By: How do you measure your success as a blogger? at Facibus On Blogging http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2834 How do you measure your success as a blogger? at Facibus On Blogging Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:38:48 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2834 [...] you might gain and may even lead to you stopping altogether. Otherwise brilliant bloggers can be tempted to quit blogging because of low [...] […] you might gain and may even lead to you stopping altogether. Otherwise brilliant bloggers can be tempted to quit blogging because of low […]

]]> By: Doug Cornelius http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2829 Doug Cornelius Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:13:54 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2829 Your most important audience member should be yourself. I think she should start off using the blog as way to capture information that is interesting to her. If she sees a new item, blog post or anything else on the web she should just post a link to it and say why it was interesting to her. Then she can find it easily and reuse it later. Think of a blog as a personal knowledge managment tool. Your most important audience member should be yourself.

I think she should start off using the blog as way to capture information that is interesting to her. If she sees a new item, blog post or anything else on the web she should just post a link to it and say why it was interesting to her. Then she can find it easily and reuse it later.

Think of a blog as a personal knowledge managment tool.

]]> By: NathanaelB http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2828 NathanaelB Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:48:03 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/23/dancing-with-yourself/#comment-2828 A few weeks? Ha ha - I didn't start getting any decent hit numbers till about 6 MONTHS into blogging! Don't be discouraged Alli! 2 years into blogging (and my blog isn't a professional one ... it's fairly random) and I've managed to build up to about 550+ visits per day, but for quite a few months at the start I was hardly getting any visitors. Keep with it! All the writing you're doing now is not going to waste - some of my most visited articles now are ones I wrote a year ago. A few weeks? Ha ha - I didn’t start getting any decent hit numbers till about 6 MONTHS into blogging! Don’t be discouraged Alli! 2 years into blogging (and my blog isn’t a professional one … it’s fairly random) and I’ve managed to build up to about 550+ visits per day, but for quite a few months at the start I was hardly getting any visitors. Keep with it! All the writing you’re doing now is not going to waste - some of my most visited articles now are ones I wrote a year ago.

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