Why Do I Blog

Have you seen the new tagging meme going around the blogosphere? Valeria Maltoni and Chris Cree have. They tagged Mike Sansone at Converstations who tagged me. The theme of the meme (sorry, couldn’t resist) – Why Do I Blog?

Yeah, I know, I said I wasn’t interested in memes any longer. Yet tagging memes seems so much more sensible than what happened with the 2000 Blogger meme. Here, I get to share a few of my favorite bloggers and make them known to others. A win-win in all directions.

So why do I blog? Are you sure I have to keep it to five? Okay, here it goes…

1. Connecting – I really enjoy connecting with people. Whether clients, readers or other bloggers, I’ve found no more effective way to connect with people on the web than through my blog.
2. Sharing – Giving and sharing are central aspects of who I am – both as a person and as a business owner. Blogging gives me the chance to share what I know through a medium that can help the most people.
3. Cultivate – I usually have far more ideas than I can even begin to create. Blogging, however, has helped me sew more of those ideas into the soil by giving me an overall focus for my own business development.
4. Copywriting – Writing daily has helped me organize my many ideas into bite-sized pieces that I can develop and share. Often, I write about one little piece of an overall idea I’m developing for my business or my clients.
5. Potential – I’ve found no other medium on the web to reach my potential market like I have through blogging. With the blogosphere ever-expanding and blogging becoming more mainstream, I see its almost limitless potential for business growth – mine and my clients.
6. Enjoyment – I really enjoy the whole experience of blogging. Even with the vast potential, if I wasn’t enjoying it, I couldn’t sustain it. Sure, some days it can be challenging to find what ‘feels right’ to write about, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the challenge.
7. …Okay, I’ll stop now…

Sorry, I couldn’t stop with five. I had to add sharing in there. It’s one of the important reasons I blog. So let me share with you five blogs that I really enjoy from five bloggers I’ve met blogging:

• Dave Schoof
• Gary Conn
• David Airey
• Jens P. Berget
• Doug Karr

And oh, dear reader, I hope you don’t think I forgot you. I’d love to hear why you’re blogging. So please, share with me your reasons in the comments. And remember, you’re certainly welcome to trackback.