For our anniversary week 52 Weeks of Blog Community task, let’s talk about blogging beginnings. You can either just post a comment below or write a post on your own blog and share the link here.
Here are some guideline questions that might help you jog your memory and get you writing about how you started as a blogger -
- When did you learn all about blogs? And, when do you start your very own blog?
- Why did you decide to start blogging?
- Did anyone influence your beginnings as a blogger? Any major inspirations?
- Do you remember your very first blog post? What did you write about?
- What are the most memorable moments from your blog when you were starting out?
Anyway, I hope these questions help you.
By the way, this is going to be a quick round of 52WoC, as I hope to include this task for our upcoming 52WoC Party #9 (scheduled some time this weekend). So, I’m planning to close this task on the 28th of August, Friday PM (Adelaide Time).
Hope you get the chance to join us so that you can take part in our 9th 52WoC virtual party.
In any case, here are the participants from our 52WoC#43: From Online to Real Life task -
Thanks again, everyone!
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Melissa W 08.25.09 at 9:20 am
My first blog was within a ‘gated’ community of sorts (a site that required paid membership and was focussed on a specific community) and that was around 2000/03. It was very much a basic LJ type affair, just typing down random feelings and thoughts from day to day. Then I began to realise there was a whole world of craft blogs out there and I decided to join in the fun and create a public blog. I created my Blogger blog in 2005 but didn’t take it seriously until 2006 and haven’t looked back since!
I had quit work to stay at home and raise Daisy, and I felt the need to connect with other people in the world. I saw how other craft bloggers had created a sense of community by commenting on each others blogs and I wanted to be a part of that, so for a long time my blog was simply a way of identifying myself when I commented on other people’s sites and posting pics of my craft projects.
I didn’t really have any major inspirations to be honest as I had no expectations that anyone would actually read my blog. It was about keeping myself accountable to my own plans really, rather han speaking to an audience, so I didn’t lok to anyone else to see how they wre doing it. There are blogs that have been on my blogroll since the beginning of course, but it’s the craft content that I admire rather than their blogging style.
I deleted my first year of posts when I started to take the blog seriously. Pretty much all those posts were bullet point lists of what I wanted to do, and even then I still posted like that occasionally for at least another year after that.
Comments were a big deal for me to start with, and I practically threw a party each time I got one. It gave me the chance to connect with someone, something that had become rare in my socially isolated new life.
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Kari 08.25.09 at 9:56 am
I started blogging around 1998 over at Open Diary. Of course, I didn’t know it had a name back then! It was just the next step in my journaling process that I had been doing since I was a young girl, and also a way to keep in touch with an out of town friend. I haven’t any recollection of what I first blogged about, but since I was 18 that year I reckon it had something to do with boys and parties
What I do remember is how powerful I felt to be able to suddenly share with others and vice versa the thoughts that were floating around in my mind. Having somewhere to throw those thoughts has always been therapeutic, but having instant feedback from strangers was even more exciting!
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Rachel Cotterill 08.25.09 at 4:33 pm
I started blogging a few months ago, before I really read any blogs, but I’d heard of the concept and thought it might be fun. I keep going mostly because I enjoy the conversations.
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blue rose 08.26.09 at 12:11 pm
In May 2006, I created my first blog in friendster. Nothing serious, nakikigaya lang. And the very first entry that I published there is the song lyrics of Pagsubok by Orient Pearl followed by series of poems that I composed.
After a year, 29 June 2007 to be exact, my friend introduced me to blogger and i created a new blog. Just for fun I started publishing my composition.
Then, I realized that I can really practice my writing skills through blogging. So, I decided to continue it. Through time I gained friends whom they inspired me to continue to write. And I love it!
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Shai Coggins 08.28.09 at 10:46 pm
Thanks, everyone! I’m planning to do the round-up shortly. It was a pleasure to read all about your blogging beginnings, Melissa, Kari, Rachel, and blue rose. Thanks again for sharing!
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