In this article we are going to take a quick look at a popular question I get a lot when working with people with no previous online experience - "what is the meaning of blogging, anyway?".
While to you and me, the answer may seem reasonably obvious, to many, it's not.
So let's take a little closer look and see if we can't shed some light on what is often a spot of momentary dusky shadow for the unenlightened.
Blogging is, in my view, the simple act of journaling online, either with purpose, or without.
It is the process of sharing, of community building, or reaching out and breaking down cultural and ideological divides.
It is inspiring people.
Motivating people.
Creating change through the power of your own words, thoughts and imagination.
Blogging is art - pictures that tell a story, poetry that pulls at your heart strings from around the world, frozen moments in time that are captured, collected, culled and shared again via the power of pushing the proverbial pen to the pixel.
Blogging is anything you want it to be.
It can be private.
It can be greedy.
It can be pure.
It can be contrived.
It is a reflection of who you are, when you open yourself up to the bright eyes of the watching world, cautious - controlling or conniving, or simple, sincere and sublime.
When people tell you what a blogger is, or looks like, or should do - tell them, to think again.
If you can be the above, you too are a blogger extraordinaire, the persuasive pull of your prose a simple measure of the power in your passion.
If in this mirror you see your own reflection - well, you should already know what to do next.
Happy Blogging!