With Our Blog, We Are Part Of Something Big

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My blog and your blog are part of the blogosphere, the totality of all blogs. With our blogs, we are THE counterweight to social media.

With our blog articles, we contribute to making the Internet a useful place. Our blog posts can be found by everyone because they are not locked away behind the digital walls of Facebook, LinkedIn & Co., and others. With every link we set, we empower other bloggers. With every blog post, we strengthen our own platform and not a social media platform, which has been designed in such a way that people are quickly outraged and scroll through the feed longer than it is good for them.

For idealists who want to become visible online, the following applies:

“Go build your own blog!”

Really, I love everything about blogging. The steep learning curve, the appreciative comments, and the fact that my thoughts form into sentences while writing. I take something out of my INNER JUNK DRAWER aka brain, and often don’t know what to do with it. Words come to my mind, ideas, and stories I want to share and before I know it, sentences form and I often find myself in the middle of a blog post that I didn’t see coming. Just answering a comment frequently leads to another blog post.

Blogging made me more creative, courageous, and self-confident, and I got to know many interesting people. I think by now, after ten years, it’s safe to list blogging under my hobbies.

I started as a Non-Smoking blog. The Happy Quitter was not meant to last, yet it’s still here. Why?

My first posts, when I wrote about my feelings and shared my emotions during the time when I quit smoking, are still read to this day. At my 10th blogging anniversary, a reader thanked me. My small, insignificant blog has made a big difference in someone’s life. By writing about myself and my experiences I had helped a person to quit smoking as well.

It can’t get better than that!

Whatever subject you might blog about, whether you post a manual or a checklist today, people will still find it in five years. We have no character limits on our blogs and can prepare texts in a very structured way. We can go into deep detail, or share pictures of our life.

We can also write about difficult and complicated topics.

If you want to help people with your knowledge in the long term and make as much difference as possible in the world, your texts are much better off on a blog than on social media. When people are looking for a solution, they don’t scroll through Instagram, no, they ask Google or the other search engines, and there you can be found.

Blogging makes you creative and improves your writing style

Do you think you can’t blog because you’re not good at writing? It’s the other way around. You don’t write well because you don’t blog! I’ve been blogging since May 2014 and I can guarantee you, through blogging you will learn to write really well. No one is born with good writing skills, it’s all a matter of practice and blogging gives you a lot of exercise.

By writing regularly, you sharpen your eye for punchlines. Over time, you will learn to write good headlines and introductions. You’ll also learn a lot about good readability. Storytelling becomes your passion. Everything we do regularly, we do really well at some point – including writing.

I could go on and on! I like blogging and knowing that we can make a difference -sooner or later- is perhaps the icing on the cake.

We all make a change!

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Daily writing prompt

What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?

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