Tuesday this past week once again found me lurking with intent at Bristol’s Watershed (an occurrence that is getting to be habit forming…). This time the excuse was to attend a blogging skills workshop organised under the aegis of Connecting Bristol.
With Watershed’s Clare in the chair, about a dozen of us were gathered in one of the meeting to see if our collective wit and wisdom could answer a number of questions, such as:
- Why blog?
- What makes a good blog?
- How do you blog?
One surprising revelation from the workshop was that most of the attendees had or contributed to more than one blog, with the average number being 3. The reader base of the bloggers varied considerably too from the small and intimate – those of us who record our private thoughts for the simple joy of writing or for sharing with family and friends – to the thousands of visitors flocking to Steve Bridger’s After Wilma, which became the unofficial information source for the reconstruction of Cancún & the Riviera Maya in Mexico following the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Wilma in October 2005.
All told, it was a lively and very useful session, so much so that it overran its time by half an hour, meaning I never did make the monthly Bristol Wireless meeting, presenting my apologies by mobile phone from the little boys room.
If you’re new to weblogs (there are thousands started every day) or even if you’re not and are just plain curious, our collective musings can be found on yet another blog, the Blogging Skills Exchange.
As a footnote, I see fellow Eastonite Jim Carpenter of ERN has also started his very own WordPress blog. Best of luck Jim!
