Why create a personal blog?
At its core, a personal blog, regardless of focus, is about your desire
to communicate with a broader audience to fulfill a personal goal.
(Here are 7 reasons to have a personal blog.)
Personal blogs aren’t diaries.
While a personal blog is like keeping a diary, it differs in several
major ways. Unlike the old-fashioned hand written diary, there’s no lock
and key.
In fact, the experience is exactly the opposite. By blogging, instead
of keeping your thoughts private, you’re inviting the public to read
them. Understand – once your content is public, it’s owned by your community of readers
(unless you limit access through the use of password protection.) On
the Internet, your blog is a public record that lives forever (or at
least until the software disappears or is sold.) Lastly, blogs provide
for engagement through their comments (if you allow them.)
12 Personal Blogging Tips
Personal blogs, like professional and business blogs, require some
thought before you jump in and start throwing words on the screen if you
don’t want your blog to be a flash-in-the-pan. While many bloggers are
itching to start creating content (Hey isn’t that why you want to
blog?), there are factors to consider first to ensure you don’t get
blindsided once your information’s publically available. Here are twelve
such factors.
