I guess I could be described as a hardcore blogger, as I’ve been writing here for over eight years. So I’m going to respond to Hugh MacLeod’s question about the importance of blogging to me.
Like I said many times before, for those of us crazy enough to take it seriously, blogging matters, so does freedom, that’s why I wrote the book. And yeah, we have a duty to convince those less fortunate than ourselves to give it some more thought.
- I live in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada; population 5,000. Even our timezone is unknown to many people. Without my blog, nobody would ever have heard of me. This Spring, I have four speaking engagements out of town (Montreal, Ottawa, Washington DC, Rome). Without my blog, I am sure that IEEE and many other organizations would not have invited me to speak.
- My blog is a key part of my professional development and essential to my personal knowledge management processes. It’s how I make sense of many things. My blog keeps me connected.
- I initially met my business partners at the Internet Time Alliance through my blog. That was a very good thing!
- My blog has allowed me to connect to people all over the world. This year alone, I have had visitors from 168 countries. It means that I can often travel to a new city and already know someone at my destination.
- In addition, my blog gives me (just a little bit of) credibility with the much younger digital generation
from Harold Jarche http://www.jarche.com/2012/04/how-blog%c2%adging-chan%c2%adged-my-life-for-the-bet%c2%adter/
