CT Biz Blogs

Today I wanted to share a bit of what I do behind the scenes to keep friends’, clients’, and my own blog running.

One of the first things I do is make my rounds: I check every blog I’m responsible for, to see how it looks and see if there are any new posts. I read everyone’s posts with eager anticipation — these are folks new to blogging and it’s exciting to see how they’re doing and what they’re saying.

There’s been a bit of a pause for a few of our client bloggers, but we’re back on track. Kim Fawcett (Your Voice), Anthony Gordon (Integrated Health Management), and Valorie Luther (Creative Concepts) are getting the hang of it.

Well, Valorie already has the hang of it, and she really understands what blogging is about, as her last post on blogging and ethics, shows.

I’ve been especially impressed with Kim Fawcett’s blogging lately. She’s written some great, from-the-heart posts in the past few days, with her thoughts on the war, and on emergency contraception. These took courage to post, but I think if you’re going to be an honest politician in this day and age, that takes a lot of courage, too, to face down all the detractors and cynics. Blogging is surely one way to show people what you’re made of.

Sometimes there are formatting issues in some folks’ posts, usually when copying from MS Word is involved. I go in and fix those up immediately. I look at the posts in edit mode, and look at the actual HTML code, make sure it’s correct, and take out the extra bits Word puts in that mess up the look of the blog. (more…)