5-26-16 Blogging about Blogs
Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 5:27PM Carolyn Tamler I’m not sure when blogging began. First, we had computers, then websites, emails and Facebook….and I don’t know which came first: the chicken or the egg, as we have all heard. I just know there are blogs everywhere about every subject. Some blogs have thousands of followers and some, like mine, are read by a few loyal, local folks.
The beauty of most blogs, as I see it, is that they are totally owned by the individual. No one tells me what to write in my blog. I describe this particular blog as a “marketing blog.” But, if you are one of my loyal readers, you know that I generally write about subjects related to marketing, but often they reflect what I observe in the world around me.
For anyone who writes a blog, there is a great sense of freedom in being able to write from your heart, from you own point of view, and reflecting your own interests. The only one who tells me what to write in my blog is some little critic buried in my brain.
Following up on this sense of freedom, I am now doing a blog for a short while in WhidbeyLocal.com, and it happened because JoAnna Weeks, the Founder and CEO of this on-line publication, gives me freedom to write what I like. In addition to my regular business stories in the Business Spotlight, I am having great fun writing a blog about my experiences learning about wines and wine making.
First, I reported on the classes I took from Deb Stillwell at Ott & Murphy (“Musings of a Wine Neophyte” reported in the Whidbey Buzz), and now I am expanding on those musings by sharing a great experience I had traveling to the wine regions of Walla Walla with Diane Kaufman and David Ott, the owners of Ott & Murphy.
Like I said, I’m having lots of fun with my blogging, and I am also enjoying helping a young woman from France who is visiting with the owners of Ott & Murphy while she continues to work on her Masters Degree in International Wine Marketing. Her blogs will be included with my Musings from a Wine Neophyte: https://www.whidbeylocal.com/article/view/1233 )
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