Advice

How Blogging Helps Your Career #8 – The Soap Box

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(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

You have things to say.  You have ideas.  You have statements.

You want to get them out.  To broadcast them.

You want to know how to reach people and connect with them.

You want to get over your fear of doing it in the first place.

Come to think of it, on your job, chances are you wish you were better at shooting your mouth off effectively.

A blog is a great way to get better at this.

Blogging is a soap box you can stand on and shout from.

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Adeptus Mechanicus Panicus Returnicus

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Awhile ago I made a semi-humorous point that I was worried that people in technical fields (well, us) would end up a bit like the Adeptus Mechanicus in the Warhammer 40K universe.  The Adeptus of this somewhat-over-the-top dark future story are both technicians and a religious order, secretive, at times dogmatic, and culturally stagnant.  I think you can see the comparison and the concern.

It is some time later, and I wanted to repeat my observation and note . . . I think we’re closer than I thought.

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How Blogging Helps Your Career #7 – The Laboratory

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(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

Blogging is a way to grow and expand who you are – certainly it’s a kind of obstacle course that’ll teach you to be a better researcher.

But beyond the learning experiences and the stretching and expanding it puts you through, blogging also gives you options.  Lots of options.  A blog is there for you to do anything with.

Want to try a new blogging platform or plugin? Fine.

Want to try a new writing style?  Post that sucker no matter what.

Different layouts?  Easy.

Different SEO?  Go for it.

Blogging is about writing and communicating, but it’s filled with options from software and extras to the sheer freedom of writing anything on the internet.

Blogging is a laboratory.

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