Posted by Dave Lorenzo - Business Coach

I love blogging.  I do it for many reasons.  Here are a few (not in any particular order):

Helping People – Hopefully you get some good information from this blog.  I hope it makes your work life a little easier.  At least once a week someone sends me an e-mail telling me that one of my posts helped them.  That makes everything worth it.

Entertainment – Sometimes I try to be funny.  Sometimes people just laugh at me.  Either way it’s entertaining and hopefully you come back.

Competitive Nature – I’m an extremely competitive person.  I love numbers and stats that measure performance.  Blogs are easy to measure and visitor activity is great to track.  It helps me improve.

Building a Community – I have made many new friends by blogging.  I’ve learned a lot from them. I share what I know and they do the same.  This is terrific.  It’s one of the best things about this medium.

Marketing – I’d like to sell a few books.  Buy one if you like what I write.

Now for the nastiness.  I’ve noticed that a couple of people who regularly read this blog have begun taking the content verbatim without attribution.  As far as I am concerned, everything I write here is fair game.  Copy the entire posts if you’d like.  Just include a link back to this blog.  That’s not only reasonable, it’s the unwritten “code” of blogging.

Those of you who are using my writing without including a link – you know who you are – please go back and update your posts.  I’m not going to do you the favor of recognizing you here because I don’t want to give you more traffic for being a terrible person. 

Bottom line – there’s no shame in passing along what you feel is good information.  Please just give credit where it is due.

As for everyone else – sorry to bum you out……now back to your regularly scheduled blogging…..

Filed under: Blogging
TrackBack URI     

No Responses »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

Name (required)

E-mail (required)

URI

Your Comment