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During the process of reorganizing things, I had to go back through all four years of my archives, a step that kicked me into a significant introspective mode. Where have I come from? Where am I going?
Honestly, much of my content from early years is downright embarrassing. And really, it goes beyond the content. I’ve spent the weekend thinking about the mistakes I’ve made as a blogger and wondering what I would do differently if I could. Keep in mind that my goals for this site were always professional and that I foresaw a day when it would be my only job (I hope that day comes, still!).
Here is my advice for bloggers who wish to do the same thing.
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Many of you know of, or have met, Andrew Feiberg. Andrew is a journalist working on Capitol Hill. He was instrumental in coordinating visits to Washington, D.C. by Robert Scoble and provided a great deal of information to me on the story I covered surrounding Congressional use of social media.
Andrew has proven himself a tremendous asset in bringing to light some of the issues facing the technology community from the government. He has a brilliant legal mind (though he is not yet a lawyer, but is in process) and access to many people in and around Congress.
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My friend, Jim Kukral is a great marketing guy, so he started working me on Scratchback late last year when he first launched it.
Scratchback makes the assumption (whether correctly, or incorrectly) that people who like what you do want to give something back to you. Regular people don’t want to make an ad buy, but [...]
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Heads up. Our second episode of Technosailor TV is tomorrow night at 9pm Eastern. This week, we’ll be doing the Mixx Minute with Kevin Palmer of Pointless Banter. Kevin is a really funny guy so you’ll like him.
In addition, Nick Bouton of Protagonize, a social fiction writing site will be joining us in the second segment. Then of course, we can talk about anything you as an audience wants to talk about in the third segment.
After a few weeks of messing around and getting comfortable in the video streaming game, we’ve had a lot of fun and a good deal of attention. It’s been fun. I’ve learned some things too - namely that these things can easily go over three hours if there’s no structure.
So, I’ll be streaming every Saturday from 9-11pm (eastern).
The format I’m going to play with will be:
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So I ask in all humility, and in the spirit of crowd-sourcing, how would you monetize this site if it were yours? What tips can you share with me? Introductions you might be able to make? While I would love to have this conversation in comments, I also recognize that some conversations might be better had in private. So please, email me at aaron@technosailor.com or one of the other methods listed here.
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Long time readers of this blog probably have been aware of the consolidation of the niche that I’ve been covering here. In the very early days, the topics were all over the place. At some point, that seemed to consolidate down to mostly technology related conversations. There was a definite focus for a period of [...]
Caught your attention, did I? Well good. That was the point.
I’m not really starting over at Technosailor, but looking back over the last 2+ years, I know I wish I could change some of the things I’ve done in my blogging career. The reality is that every blogger is a newbie once and newbies [...]
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