Free E-Book on the Essence of Authentic Blogging

Here’s a living document I prepared for our first three groups of budding bloggers. I feel a collaborative book coming on.

Not sure I see myself in the same light as the company I am keeping in this collection, but some wonderful people to be gaining inspiration from all the same. David Bohm, Carl Rogers, Carl Jung, Natalie Goldberg, Julia Cameron, The Cluetrain folk, Scoble, Meerman Scott (in some order of importance).

We see this as essential reading for anyone on a quest for personal and professional growth through blogging, but it is a very first draft. Stay tuned for more…

Have a read and let me know which quotes resonate most for you…

FREE E-BOOK on the Essence of Authentic Blogging
More posts on writing to help get your words flowing…

Authentic blogging buzz… in the flesh

Starting to see some more of the interconnected magic we get from blogging and other social media. Good to see others benefiting from the distribution of our ideas about “What’s a good blog?“.

But the real connection here with Ron Tanner was made by real people at a live event with Will McInnes and the divine Sarah James, marketing and events consultant extraordinaire. There’s simply no substitute for face-to-face human contact…

(and PLEASE can we have another word for it besides “offline”! Cyber-punk writers like William Gibson emphasise words like flesh as opposed to virtual. I guess we do go to “press the flesh” at networking functions.)

Will reinforced our advice about the power of blogging by saying: “If I was starting out in business again I would simply use a blog”, or words to that effect. Who needs an expensive, complicated website? Not most SME’s that’s for sure. Perhaps Will might want to drop in here and qualify or clarify that statement…

Thanks for the plug Caspar & Tanner. Thanks for some awesome reality checks Will. Thanks to all for helping Authentic Blogging find its place and people.

What is a blog?

So what is a blog? In essence. Here’s a group perspective from a discussion during the Monday course.

• Personal
• Interactive
• Dynamic
• Ongoing
• Living
• Non-physical
• Accessible
• Egalitarian
• Conversation

What can we add to this?

Check out wikipedia for a wider collaboration seeking to answer this, as developed over some years.

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