Please share your baby boomer blogging story. It just may help other baby boomers who are trying to decide to blog or not to blog. Help to answer that question.
Are You Going to Share How YOU STARTED BLOGGING? Were You Born a Blogger?
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Baby Boomer Blogging-Were You Born a Blogger Pt.2
One of the real reasons I started this series was to capture other stories from baby boomer bloggers. But now I am really thinking about those things that motivated me to blog.
- I wanted to become a professional blogger.
- I wanted to earn passive income from blogging and other internet strategies.
- I wanted to be able to add to my pension.
- I wanted to be able to help others in need via blogging.
- I wanted to be around more and not on the road speaking away from my mom since I am the only child and I am her” assisted living.”
- I wanted to help my husband sell his artwork online
I STILL WANT THO KEEP THESE DREAMS SO I HAVE MADE THEM GOALS
Ray and I decided to take an eight week webinar training in the evenings. These were great date nights. We would eat dinner then sit at the dinner table around the lap top or downstairs around the desk top with speakers turned high as we listened to Jeannette Cates talk about starting a business online.
Now we were already primed by other internet gurus we like and admire. But this series by Cates promised to help us set up our own website! I admit I thought it was going to be a static site and I would learn more about Dreamweaver. But before we knew it we had jumped into deep water and was swimming with WordPress.org. Oh my, that was the program that looked so hard on the VTC training that I decided it was far easier to stick with Blogger.
But it was too late. We were assigned to create this WordPress.org site and host it. We did it. We are glad we did.
Later as, as time went on, we went deeper with WordPress.org with the guidence of my friend Cathy Perkins, the infamous WordPress Wizard.
Ray and I were not born bloggers. But as baby boomers we were determined to learn. We now have many blogs and still learning.
What about you? What is your blogging story? Please, Please share. You can post as a comment or just email the story to me using rhspeak(at)aol.com
If we get enough stories we will publish them in an ebook to share with others
A Quick Look ClickBank
If you have a nano second check out this post I just did on Rosies Boomer Review on ClickBank. It just might motivate you to blog more.
This is probably the shortest post you have ever read on this site!
Baby Boomer Blogging-Were You Born a Blogger?
If you are a baby boomer blogger reading this answer just one question. Were you born a blogger? I was not born a blogger. Sure if my mom had me tested back in the early fifties they may have detected a “blog” gene. But genetic research as not, to my knowledge, been able to find that DNA relationship. Yet, many of us are baby boomers and we blog? Why? How did it start?
Ok, here is my story. Once upon a time I had someone create a website for me. Why? Because as a speaker I went to enough workshops that said, “Create a website and put the url on your business card. Include articles, products and the kinds of topics you deal with and audiences you address. Oh, and don’t forget to put a current picture up and not one showing you 20 years ago.
Well, I did that, not once but twice. Both were wonderful sites done in Dreamweaver. That is one of the finest website development packages around but the learning curve is steep. So although I knew how to change pages, create pages there was so much more to learn. I could not fix my files and much more. I became increasingly frustrated.
Remember, I am a speaker, stand up, talk, engage, get creative tell jokes but not do blogging. That sounded lonely, tedious and too hard!
Then one day I attended an NSA, (National Speakers Asssociation) conference and was introduced to this thing called blogging. I purchased the CD and listened to it over and over again in my car.Although, I did not use the same blogging platform as the speaker, I decided to create my blog using Blogger.
How did I learn Blogger?
I took an online tutorial course with VTC. I would look at the video, stop and do they said, then start the vidoe again and continue. I had a blog up and running in no time! I still had my static site but I had a blog up on presentation skills. I taught my husband and he put one up on art. What was also cool was this same video site had a lot of free videos you could learn from before you started paying. They also had loads of videos we could not find in the stores. Video tutorials on just about anything so we signed up for a year so we could also dip our toes in stuff like Photoshop, etc.
I started looking at the tutorials on WordPress.But at that time the installing was oh so complex. I was not ready to deal with creating databases and other stuff you had to do if you did not have a host that made it simple.
Are you ready to share your story yet?
Next, How we traveled to WordPress.org during hot date nights.
What Are Your Freedoms This 4th of July?
First I want to thank each and every person who has put themselves in harms way to provide the many freedoms we have in this country. I also honor those who have lost their lives and hope and pray that their families find comfort.
This is a day that made me think of physical, mental and spiritual freedoms. I thought about my personal spiritual freedom during my personal quiet time this morning. I was thankful for the physical freedom from pain that my mom had. I pray for those who are in emotional and physical pain for them to have some freedom from it.
If you have never felt the pain of physical, emotional or spiritual bondage you will never, ever appreciate how it feels to feel free. Sometimes it is just the freedom a pain pill brings. Other times it is the freedom from crying out of grief or lost of a loved one because someone cared enough to call and talk to you.
As a baby boomers we have a lot more of a history to reflect upon. They range from personal freedoms to job related freedoms. That’s right many of you are free of your jobs but not by choice. Yet, you have created an opportunities out of the pain of job loss. Every successful baby boomer internet marketer has a story to tell you that would probably encourage you.
Well, I could go on and on but must make a trip to my moms. So, I leave
Are their some freedoms you have but have thought to give thanks for? If yes, take a few minutes to appreciate them between the fireworks and fun.
Enjoy the day!
10 Top Reasons to Blog on the 4th of July
I was always amazed at how much mail I get on the holidays from internet marketers. But it always seemed strange because most people should be busy entertaining, hanging out or watching a marathon on TV.
Then it hit me. Hey, how would I know about the online activity during a holiday unless I was online? That’s right I am one of those folks blogging and doing other stuff online, when I can, during the holidays.
So, although, I am supposed to be working on an upcoming presentation for next week, I thought I would share this post I was writing in my mind while running my errands today.
10 Top Reasons to Blog on the 4th of July
1. Everyone online does not celebrate the holiday so you can focus on your oversea readers
2. You just never liked hot dogs ,hamburgers and ribs. Plus everyone is not into vegi, vegan and tofu so you might as well stay home.
3. If you are blogging and remember an issue you wanted to ask your host about you can get almost instant access to 24 hour support because everyone else is busy having fun.
4. If you are have your laptop at the barbercue you can impress your friends and family
5. You can blog about holiday sales and specials.
6. You don’t have a life.
7. You might get more comments from other bloggers online who don’t have a life
8. If you blog for your job you will look like a go getter if folks see you posted on a holiday.
9. It is a good time to volunteer to be a guest blogger for someone who needs a break to get a life.
10. If you blog then Tweet someone may bring you a dinner or invite you over to their celebration.
Blogging Betty Boomer Comments on 30 Day Blog Challenge
Blogging Betty Boomer shares her insights on the 30 Day Blog Challenge. I know my name appears as the one who participated but since we are like sisters she was there too. As you know, she is my blogging persona on my boomer sites.No, I’m not on medicine. Ha!
One of the super benefits of the challenge was all the wonderful people I met and the information I learned. It could have been an course for credit at a University. Also, it provided even more blogging discipline. I made some serious decisions. One of those decisions was to start using the very forms I created to manage my blogging. I have gotten lax. The blog management system I developed can help organize your blogging. That means you will be even more productive and SAVE TIME!
I even see where some other forms need to be developed. So, that is on the agenda also. I am doing a 4th of July Special just until July 6, 2010. The forms will only be $1.00 if you use the discount code #blog30. You can see the ad in the sidebar.
Now, you are probably thinking, “Total waste of time” or “Too much work”. But try it and see if you like it.
Meanwhile, Have a safe and wonderful holiday weekend!