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≈ Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 9th Edition — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:05:40 +0000

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By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:32:26 +0000

There’s a picture of my email address in the sidebar, but this is fine. I hope to eventually put up a contact page, but I have to find the time to figure out how. So that could be a while. : )

Thank you for the award…I’ll pick it up later. : )

By: Kerry

Kerry — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:58:24 +0000

Dana - I’m sorry to comandeer your comment section, but I cannot find and email link on your blog. Sorry if I just missed it.

I wanted to tell you I’ve given you the “Blogging with a Purpose” Award! You can read about it here: http://theten0clockscholar.blogspot.com/2008/02/id-like-to-thank-academy.html

You are doing an awesome job!

By: Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 8th Edition

Resource For Bloggers Carnival - 8th Edition — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:40:15 +0000

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By: Marcy Muser

Marcy Muser — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:40:26 +0000

Dana,

I had to laugh at the little cartoon you posted. I can’t tell you how often I hear the same question from my dh - “Are you coming to bed?” Only he already knows the answer, and sometimes he actually phrases the question that way, “Are you still solving the world’s problems?”

So why do I blog? Beyond the reasons you listed, all of which are true for me, I can think of several.

1) I blog because it helps me think through issues. Too often when I’m talking or just thinking to myself, my thoughts tend to ramble. Blogging forces me to focus, to find just the right words, to revise, until I actually KNOW what I think rather than just having a vague idea about it. It’s more valuable than simple journaling, because having an audience is an important part of the process for me.

2) I blog because I hope to persuade people. I guess I think my opinions - and the reasons behind them - are valuable enough that other people ought to hear them! I hope that once in a while someone will read my posts and find them thought-provoking or even persuasive.

3) I blog because I think it helps other people. If I can encourage someone to homeschool who is wondering whether they can/should do it; if I can support a discouraged parent or help someone to think a different way about schools or homeschool or history or Christianity or . . . , then I think the time spent blogging is worth it.

In short, I guess I blog because I think it makes a difference - in the way I think myself, or in the way someone else thinks or feels about something. And making a difference is what I’m really all about anyway, you know?

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:35:58 +0000

I’ll be honest…I started blogging to try to drum up a bit of traffic to a small business I was trying to promote. It helped a bit. Along the way, however, I discovered that blogging was immensely satisfying for me on a personal level. I found my eyes being opened to ideas, thoughts, and philosophies which I had not before been exposed to. My own thinking has been stimulated by the desire to blog with some degree of “substance”. I have been incredibly blessed by my interactions with a whole new circle of “friends”…friendships that have become, in a very short period of time, very important to me. I agree with Crimson Wife, that these conversations lack the superficial tendencies of so many of my casual “face-to-face” relationships. Not sure why that it…but it’s very true.

I no longer really care about marketing my business. I’ll find more effective ways to do that. I blog because I love it and I love what it has brought to my life. Blogging has become an almost necessary part of my life. I can’t see stopping anytime soon.

By: Rob at Kintropy

Rob at Kintropy — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:41:25 +0000

Agree with much already said. Blogging does remind me of journaling, but with instant feedback & some healthy guilt if I don’t write regularly. Could do without the spam attacks, though.

It’s a nice escape, particularly after a long day @ work, too.

By: Mrs. C

Mrs. C — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:57:08 +0000

CrimsonWife & Dana, I agree that small talk is beyond annoying. I’m incredibly bad at it in any event. I’ve seen ladies who are able to have something to say to everyone in a crowd, though, and I’ll bet that takes a lot of intelligence. I’d be lucky if I were able to summon the courage to say, “Hi!” to about two people. I might even be bold enough to tell one of those two people that I like her scarf or something similar before retreating back into my corner and going, “OH! That was a stupid thing to say! That’s what I get for talking too much!”

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:25:20 +0000

I could sooo relate to the cartoon you posted!
Lori

By: Shawna

Shawna — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:00:50 +0000

I began blogging for purely selfish reasons and found all of what you mentioned above to come with it–then I was hooked!

I wanted a place to record things: thoughts, ideas, events. Something to look back at and see what was going on. I have very little opportunity while at home to talk about what I think about: my kids are not really that interested in my deeper thoughts and my husband has a one tracked work mind–if it isn’t work related he can’t seem to muster the energy nor interest to really listen and converse. I began blogging because I wanted a venue to keep my skills somewhat active (although my blogging is nothing like my writing; it’s more like my speaking than anything.) I began blogging to keep in touch with friends I had met on-line who moved from message boards to blogging.

So what it started out to be has evolved into so much more.