27
Expectations
Posted by Claudia Moser
on
8:26 PM
in
GBE 2
Via Marie-Anne from Write, Wrong or Indifferent I have stumbled upon the GBE 2 movement. A group of more than 100 bloggers have 1 week time to post one entry in respect to the same theme. Elizabeth (add link) is posting on each Sunday, on the Facebook group , the topic and we have time to gather our thoughts and post. The time pressure is there, but maybe not as much as for the A-Z April Challenge or as for the Z-A May Challenge . But at the same time, you have the same feeling of belonging, of having some kind of routine within your web life. As I mentioned before (add link after the A-Z conclusions), I need an objective, a straightforward approach in order to organize a bit my blogging experience. But I digress; I actually should start writing about the first theme, namely Expectations.
I was very excited last evening, while waiting for the first theme. I hope that I will get a glimpse of it before I will sleep, but since Elizabeth is not located in Europe I had to adjust, but still at 5am this morning I saw her entry and then read the theme, expectations. The first thought? Dickens! (book)
But then I went to the airport (currently on a business trip to Poland) and I started chewing the theme, wondering if I will make myself an easy life and post only Dickens link (I would be rather chicken right?) or have a deeper thought and actually posting some more meaningful.
And then more thinking while sipping a double espresso, trying desperately to wake up. A long day ahead of me, a long auditing procedure, not something that I am looking forward. Rather be home, have a longer sleep in the morning, but hey! no such luck.
Then boarding, small plane, many thoughts. Expectations!
And then it hit me, while sipping my third coffee (yes, for those who do not know me, I am a coffee addict and quite proud of it!) I saw the light. I will share some of my thought about my expectations as a blogger.
My start was quite unusual, if I may say so. One of good friends and also colleague at that time, Gabriela (Coniecto) implemented a learning project about blogging and she needed the support of some trusted friends / coworkers / guinea pigs who are willing to start blogging with her on line support and training hints. I didn’t blog before and I thought why not? It was again a group effort under the guidance of an experienced blogger and I started day by day to discover what actually blogging means, the techniques, the possibilities. We chose blogger.com as a tool and we had fun for a while, posting in Romanian (my native language and also the groups’ language), but then after the project’s end my enthusiasm faded somehow. Started in 2008, with an intense number of posts followed by silence. From time to time, I added some thoughts, but it was really random and not at all followed.
Then one afternoon I went through my comments and I discovered that I had one follower who was always showing her support no matter which were the topics of my post, namely Belle from Tales from a Loser, who is sometimes a Winner . I started following her and discovered a new world just by jumping from her comments to its authors’ blogs. And then day by day I got more interested, I just realized wow! There is a big world out there. It takes time, for sure, you invest a lot of it in reading other people’s posts, but you discover amazing ideas, you get creative and then you stumble on something like A-Z April Challenge or Z-A May Challenge and suddenly you realize that in the last 3 months you have more activity, more followers and more hits than ever. And it becomes like a part of your life, you are a blogger.
My expectations at the beginning of blogging activity? I just wanted to help a friend, then somehow my interest faded but in the meantime I am so in to it. I don’t expect to influence anyone’s life, I just want to enjoy writing, I am grateful for each comment that I get, knowing that someone out there is reading my words.
What about your expectations when you started blogging? Or just now in the middle of it?
I do hope that I will keep the flow, that I will not lose interest in blogging, it is so much fun!
|
I was very excited last evening, while waiting for the first theme. I hope that I will get a glimpse of it before I will sleep, but since Elizabeth is not located in Europe I had to adjust, but still at 5am this morning I saw her entry and then read the theme, expectations. The first thought? Dickens! (book)
But then I went to the airport (currently on a business trip to Poland) and I started chewing the theme, wondering if I will make myself an easy life and post only Dickens link (I would be rather chicken right?) or have a deeper thought and actually posting some more meaningful.
And then more thinking while sipping a double espresso, trying desperately to wake up. A long day ahead of me, a long auditing procedure, not something that I am looking forward. Rather be home, have a longer sleep in the morning, but hey! no such luck.
Then boarding, small plane, many thoughts. Expectations!
And then it hit me, while sipping my third coffee (yes, for those who do not know me, I am a coffee addict and quite proud of it!) I saw the light. I will share some of my thought about my expectations as a blogger.
My start was quite unusual, if I may say so. One of good friends and also colleague at that time, Gabriela (Coniecto) implemented a learning project about blogging and she needed the support of some trusted friends / coworkers / guinea pigs who are willing to start blogging with her on line support and training hints. I didn’t blog before and I thought why not? It was again a group effort under the guidance of an experienced blogger and I started day by day to discover what actually blogging means, the techniques, the possibilities. We chose blogger.com as a tool and we had fun for a while, posting in Romanian (my native language and also the groups’ language), but then after the project’s end my enthusiasm faded somehow. Started in 2008, with an intense number of posts followed by silence. From time to time, I added some thoughts, but it was really random and not at all followed.
Then one afternoon I went through my comments and I discovered that I had one follower who was always showing her support no matter which were the topics of my post, namely Belle from Tales from a Loser, who is sometimes a Winner . I started following her and discovered a new world just by jumping from her comments to its authors’ blogs. And then day by day I got more interested, I just realized wow! There is a big world out there. It takes time, for sure, you invest a lot of it in reading other people’s posts, but you discover amazing ideas, you get creative and then you stumble on something like A-Z April Challenge or Z-A May Challenge and suddenly you realize that in the last 3 months you have more activity, more followers and more hits than ever. And it becomes like a part of your life, you are a blogger.
My expectations at the beginning of blogging activity? I just wanted to help a friend, then somehow my interest faded but in the meantime I am so in to it. I don’t expect to influence anyone’s life, I just want to enjoy writing, I am grateful for each comment that I get, knowing that someone out there is reading my words.
What about your expectations when you started blogging? Or just now in the middle of it?
I do hope that I will keep the flow, that I will not lose interest in blogging, it is so much fun!
|
