I have just discovered your blog through great respected freind/mentor Rick and I LOVE it…you are sooo right. I am just learning and know I will be back for more. This is the “new” world and I think it is one of great opportunity for creativity and celebrating what makes each one unique and totally amazing. Thanks for sharing yourself with us.

Also, for my main business thing, I have a similar issue as Grace. I’m going to go with the blog but I have no idea if anyone will read it. There may be a generational difference there. But then I suggested to a client that she could pay using PayPal recently and she didn’t even know what that was and wasn’t even prepared to click through on links in an invoice I sent using PayPal to figure it out. Now, I know some folks are very anti-PayPal but this woman hadn’t even heard of it. So clearly some of my people are living under rocks when it comes to the internet.

But I used the old-fashioned go-for-coffee networking thing yesterday which means I now have someone to submit a workshop proposal to for an event that should reach a whole bunch of my right people. So life is good.

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And yes, I know, I asked unfairly large questions. :)

Your notion of having newsletter folks and blog folks is really, really good – *duh*. I’m a little bit thinking I may explode if I have to write any more than I already do. But blogging would be a whole different beast…

Food for thought. Thank you very much!

Grace

@ben – ohmygod, the post-it solution that is its own problem that is its own solution. I totally do that. Experimenting now with note cards so that I can actually read them.

@Chris – ha! The only way anyone is ever going to call *me* a mommy blogger is metaphorically. Hmmm. The mother of all newbie bloggers. No, that sounds not-so-good also.

Still, you made me laugh.

And glad to have started a dusting-behind-refrigerator debate.

@Grace – hmm. Big questions. I don’t think the medium is as important as “do you get what your people need and can you help them?”

There are noozletter people and blog people. Not a ton of people who are both. If you’re people are noozletter people you might want to stick to that and then work on building a new community of blog people so that you have both.

Then you can link to blog posts from your noozletter articles.

As blogs become more mainstream, more of your people will make the jump.

For me, I dumped my nooz because I got sick of writing articles (I know, it’s weird but I did) but loved writing posts. And the people who hang out here are just kind of more fun.

See what your people are like and see what will not drive you crazy and then experiment a little!

Hope that helps …

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Of course this series is weirdly ( although I would say wildly ) popular!

It’s one of the best tutorials on blogging that I have ever seen because it doesn’t just deal with the technical issues about blogging but the emotional issues…. which is really where people get hung up. That’s the hard stuff. That’s what paralyzes people and keeps blogging from happening. So kudos to you for making the blogosphere safe for feelings. Yeah feelings!!

It’s also really fun to watch you bring new meaning to the term Mommy Blogger as I witness you nurturing and midwifing the birth of new baby bloggers into the world!

Just love you to pieces (*colorful painting of a big red heart*)…..
Chris

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