{"id":4014,"date":"2015-06-17T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T22:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2015-06-16T22:38:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:38:47","slug":"blogging-and-being-a-node-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/blogging-and-being-a-node-in-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging and being a node in conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please read obligatory apology for blogging about blogging<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Yesterday I talked about what blogging has done for me<\/a>. I want to spend a bit more time talking about what I mean by “blogging”. This is a personal definition about how I relate to this thing I do on this site, not something aimed at starting a debate or fine-tooth-comb examination of definitions.<\/p>\n

To me, “blogging” does not just mean writing posts. To me that is broadcasting.<\/p>\n

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For me to feel like I am really “blogging”\u00a0 I need to be reading other people who are creating in a similar space, commenting, joining in on other parts of social media about discussion of topics that may or may not end up as more fully-developed posts. The richness of what I write here is dependent on this thinking with others, and takes place as a node in conversation.<\/p>\n

I do think that there are a group of people with a “build it and they will come” mentality who write some (often very well-considered and interesting) posts and then are surprised and affronted that there is not conversation happening and their posts are not noticed. I think this is a bit like getting in some food, nice drinks, putting on some mood music, opening doors … then sitting on the sofa complaining that your party is not a success…<\/p>\n

For me blogging done satisfactorily and effectively takes huge amounts of time, a lot of discipline, involves building knowledge of where disciplinary conversations are taking place, creating discussions when possible and getting in there boots and all.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has been reading this series of posts should be concluding that, to me, blogging\u00a0 is not simple, mechanistic and easy. I see a blog as an anchor site for my presence on social media, rather than a series of posts arranged in date order. It is a place devoted to the opinions and thoughts of a single channel and, for the way I use my blog as a node in a larger ongoing conversation, should contain a comprehensive “about” page, a way for people to get in contact and some indication of presence on other social media. All this requires crafting and gardening.<\/p>\n

It’s all very well to be part of a conversation, but the way I am talking it seems like I am implying that it is just a matter of putting in time and anyone can do it. Actually, I do think it is that simple (and hard). The thing is, I make a choice about how I define “blogging” and what it means to me. I do not expect this definition to be the same for everyone – in fact I would expect most people not to be doing it like I do. In the next post I want to go on to thinking about blogging and the “imposter syndrome”, as raised by Wendy and Lyndelle on Kate’s post does anybody actually care? blogging and professional discourse<\/a><\/p>\n

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