As I work through creation of my new blog I realize I am coming to many more crossroads than I planned. If it were simply a "brain dump" it may offer some value in getting your thoughts on a screen, but it would soon become a disorganized mess with no purpose and a waste of time (at least long term). How careful should I be with what I say? I plan to use this to promote myself to future (and current) employers and folks with whom I would like to network (for a variety of reasons). Therefore, I want them to know the true Donald Hasson, but not to be turned away by words taken out of context, without understanding my tone, by not understanding my whole life or why I am saying such and such or whatever.
A big thing that I'm starting to realize is a very valuable key to building a blog; you must think thoroughly about what you're writing. Random thoughts that pass through the mind are almost worthless. But as they are formed on the screen, edited, cut, pasted, researched and re-edited, they can become quite valuable. This point is discussed in many places. Quality content is very important. Therefore, if you want your blog to be at all valuable you will think through and research your post to be sure you are accurate and even provocative. Also, I thought Sandhill Trek had good feedback to his question 'Why do we blog?'. The first quote from Anne Matthewson from fishbucket.net starts with "We cannot live for ourselves alone...". What a great and fitting statement for people trying to find purpose. Selflessness is truly a key to success and happyness. What easier way to be selfless than to share information that you've acquired with the world?
Likely more on this later.
Good evening
Donald W. Hasson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhasson
http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com
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