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date: 2007-01-05
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# WIFM and Blogging
What exactly is the reason for blogging? What do I get out of it, and why might others start blogging?

It's a good question. Here is a start at a few answers:

- Blogging allows me to put my thoughts into writing

- Blogging helps me connect with people around me on a global level

- Blogging allows me to build up content for the Tech Writer Voices podcast

- Blogging makes me exist to the external world (visibility)

- Perhaps blogging is helping me build a professional network among other technical writers

- Blogging makes me more aware of technical writing trends and activities

- Blogging helps me participate in Web 2.0

- The adsense model incorporated into my blog provides a steady second income. Just kidding, but wouldn't that be great?

I know communication and connectedness are general, vague benefits, but basically blogging helps me interact with others in ways not possible without a blog. Particularly having both a blog and a podcast, I swear I'm communicating with all kinds of people I never otherwise would. To be so connected to others like this is an amazing feeling -- it is the feeling of web 2.0, being part of the global community.

Without blogging, I feel like I'd be out of the loop, disconnected, back in the 90s.