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Eight Reflections From One Year of Blogging

  1. Blogging started as an exercise in business development.  It’s turned into an adventure in personal development.
  2. Blogging is more work than I ever imagined.
  3. Blogging is also more rewarding than I ever imagined.
  4. Think book, not diary  (with gratitude to Guy Kawasaki, How to Change the World blog).
  5. Putting up 1/2 baked ideas is a great way to have a dialogue; putting up 1/4 baked ideas is a great way to look stupid.
  6. Blogging is addicting.  I think of Jim Fixs’s book on running where he describes monks that ran for 24 hours straight.  It’s sometimes not easy to get in the right mindset, but then the runner’s high kicks in and you just keep going.
  7. While you could go to www.blogger.com and get started writing your own free blog in 5 minutes — don’t. Do your homework.
  8. Finding your voice isn’t easy.  I still feel like I’m working on it intensely, even after a year.

EcmbstatsTo all of you out there reading — THANKS — that’s what’s keeping me going.  To all of my advisors and others who have offered encouragement, perspectives and feedback — THANKS.

Here are some high level stats to share:

  • An average of 300–400+ people are dropping by daily (green).
  • Over 28,000 different people (red) have dropped by since my first post on March 11, 2007.

Finally, sometimes you wonder whether ANYONE, ANYWHERE is reading.  Then you get a trackback like the one below from http://blog.tsimzung.com/doctorlog/656 🙂 

 

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2 Comments

  1. Alfred J. Fortin on March 11, 2008 at 9:27 am

    Vince, I couldn’t agree with you more. Sometimes I just want to walk away from the blog work and then I see something interesting and think “man I’ve got to write about this.” The stress of the”next post” is only relieved temporarily once written.



  2. Arthur Yip on March 11, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Hi Vince, I couldn’t agree with you any more especially on your point 1, point 2 and point 3.
    Healthcare is not a hot topic in mainland China but I can widen my eye-sights by subscribing health feeds and then blogging. Health bloggers give me more background knowledge and latest health news as well.
    I know there are more health care bloggers in Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan. As their posts are written in Chinese generally, so we can exchange our health information in Great China area.