My first blog was a little website I did for fun way back in the late 1990′s before the word “blog” existed. I mused about web development, my guitar and studio gear collection, some other hobbies, and life in general. To my surprise, the traffic on the site climbed with every post.
I split off the most popular part of that first site and since then I have blogged almost every day (or at least every week) on it. It’s been a pretty amazing experience. While 98% of the experience has been positive, the 2% negative was tough – at first.
All things considered, I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything. We’ll talk more about that website in posts to come.
If you’ve been thinking about getting your company or yourself into blogging, I can highly recommend “Blog Rules – A Business Guide to Managing Policy, Public Relations, and Legal Issues” by Nancy Flynn. The book will guide you through many of the issues and give you a firm footing to start blogging from.
We’ll be talking about the various aspects of blogging here in the days to come, as well as many other aspects of life on the web. Enjoy.
Larry Preston
