Blogging for Beginners - A Change of Focus

Howdy,

It's been a good while since i last posted here on this blog and to tell you the truth i was going to let this blog die a slow death as i'd basically given up the ghost so to speak of ever making any decent money from it, until i realized that the blogging skills that i'd personally learnt over the last few years were not skills that the average person new when they first decided to look into starting their own blog…

Here's a true story of the day i realized that the blogging skills i new and had learnt were worth sharing…

As you may know or not know i work for a company called Kelloggs and have done for the last 15 years, anyway…. there's a friend at work called Dave Roberts who for the last couple of years has been looking into emigrating from the UK to go and live in New Zealand. Well early this year Dave finally decided to take the plunge, sell his house and move the whole of his family to the other side of the world…

A week before he was due to fly out we were sitting down in the works canteen just generally talking about his emigration. As he sat there excitingly describing what his life would hopefully be like once in New Zealand i said to him, "Why don't you start a blog so that your family and friends back in the UK can read updates of what your up to and how your getting on ? "

His answer to my question quite honestly took me by suprise. He said "What is a blog ? I've heard of them but i'm not sure what they are!

I went on to explain the basic concept of what a blog was and how he could easily post updates to it that his family back home in the UK could read by visiting his blog address. So i went on to say that if he wanted to i could easily set a blog up for him at blogger.com He said yes please and so that very same night i set up a simple blog for him over at blogger.com and also wrote out some simple instructions that he could follow when he wanted to post any updates…

The next day i gave him all the details about his new blog including username, passwords and instructions and to say he was very grateful would be an understatement. He was absolutely thrilled with what i'd done for him which to be quite honest had probably only taken me 10 minutes to set up. Here's the url of the very blog that i set up for him Dave Roberts New Zealand Blog As of today he's so far only posted 1 entry to his blog but i'm sure he'll post more updates when he gets a bit more time…

The point i'm trying to make is that the skills that i've already learnt regarding how to start a blog and the steps you need to take to build one are skills that are worth sharing with others, after all my friend Dave Roberts from work didn't really understand what the hell a blog was. The trouble is once you know how to do something you seem to sub consciously think everybody else knows it too, but of course they don't do they ?

So from now on i'm going to write content on this blog that mainly focuses on the novice blogger who perhaps like my good friend dave doesn't even understand what a blog is…

Thinking about it, once upon a time i didn't know what a blog was either

Regards

-John