To Ashley’s point: the choice of what to write about each day is not an easy one. Some days I get charged up about what I’ve posted, other days I’m ambivalent. So many bloggers see themselves as pundits and feign profundity in their musings. I just strive to connect with the reader in some way.

Thanks for the feedback.

Posts are almost always opinionated which is unavoidable. I could not agree more about the dangers of being too opinionated. No one wants to read countless pages of someone’s vent. PR blogs are not created with the intent to ramble about what your significant other said to you the night before, but for a specific purpose (whatever that may be.) I don’t believe that anyone would voluntarily read blogs filled with nothing but empty words.

The comment section is the most important part of the blog to me. The posts are there so other people will read them. Simply posting your writing on the Internet is pointless if no one reads, or cares. The comments further the conversations and allow posts to not just be a one sided story. My point is, that’s how you learn. The comment section makes the blog relevant because not only can the post inform a reader on something new, but also the blogger himself can learn from the reply.

Posts should be written with intention. I find if you have to ask yourself “to what end,� then perhaps you should be asking yourself if the post was all that important in the first place.

First, how much can I contribute to the PR field? I have little experience in “real world” situations. I can notice PR around me and write posts that are similar to a case study. Second, if my posts have nothing to do with technology, is that OK? So many PR blogs talk of up-to-date technological advances, something that I am not interested in and have little knowledge about.

One way I can see my blog helping PR at this point is by explaining what PR is through simple real world applications. Many of my peers (or even family) don’t fully understand the concept of what PR is. They see it as publicity, crisis control or putting a spin to make things look better. PR is misunderstood by many people and until more people begin understanding what we do, we’ll still be seen as “flack”.

Thanks for this post. By reading what you have written about how you see your blog has helped me think about what I can write and how I can use my blog more effectively.

Thanks for one of the best “Why I blog” musings I’ve seen. It’s truly “transparent” and thus all the more useful.