Interview with a Blogger

This week, I interviewed a fellow blogger, Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros (check her out at Blog Thing). I tried not to ask questions that she has already answered on her blog, so you should check it out!

Interview

I found the book she mentioned, check it out here.

Her discussion of formatting has me thinking a lot about my own formatting, which I have been fighting with and am still not happy with. More on that later.

My Community-Growing Plan

So I have been tasked with figuring out what I can do to grow my blog’s community. This makes me think about what I have learned so far, what has worked to create readership so far. So, I will be looking a bit at my stats, and thinking through what the NunesMagician has said.

DBCOX Stats for June 9, the busiest day for the blog so far.

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Growing (My) Blogging Community

This week in my course, we are thinking and learning about growing a blogging community. After all, a blog with no readership is really more like a diary. And I don’t keep a diary. I do keep an iPhone notes app full of ideas – this is where I really intersect with the idea of blogging. A lot of my ideas are short thoughts, odd takes on the world or what-ifs. When asked if I have a blog – when I tell people I think of myself as a writer – I think of this sort of content. But I also think of blogging a whole story. Read more of this post