POST 1: The Journey to blogging begins...!!!!

Hello Fellas....

Myself Hardika and I am pursuing my second Masters of Information technology with Enterprise System as major from QUT.

First of all I m heartily sorry for being sooo late for posting my first blog..But because of health problem and some work related issues I was unable to attend the lecture and be active in our google+ community... But finally I am heading ahead towards the journey of blogging...

Being very honest, I was never interested to write a blog in my life until i had gone through the first week lecture of my favourite unit this semester i.e. ENTERPRISE 2.0 ( wasn't favorite initially when i was sick because of pressure to write a blog..lol). The strange thing that I came across is I was just signing up my blog account in wordpress.com and i came to know that I already have an account it in...!!!

                         

I seriously had this expression.. :) After going through the lecture slides, through the blogs of other fellow mates and the video shown below, I was really interested to start writing. Hence i undertook a research on this, got bit familiar with it and now i am live with the blog...!!

 

How To Be Successful Blogger

• Setting up a blog : Initially I had an impression that the toughest part of being a successful blogger is actually getting started but then i realised hard part is setting up a blog in such a way that we can keep it updated regularly. The other thing is to be creative, visionary and inspired enough to be able to keep our blog active.

•  Deciding a theme for blog :  This is obvious but still some people ignores it. I find the theme should be simple, creative and attractive enough to make others feel like reading your post.

• Selecting appropriate topic : One of most important thing is choosing a topic about which you will be discussing in the blog. This definitely doesn't mean that you can wander around just one topic in your blog but you should be clever enough to decide what fits in and what not. Fourth thing is deciding where you want to host and share your blog. There are more than 40+ blog platforms where you can enjoy free blog postings.

• Start writing and keep on doing it : you might have great expectations of writing an awesome piece of art by playing with words and your thoughts as your first writing piece but its better to keep it short and simple. For the first few posts you gotta enjoy and celebrate for each and every post to keep your morale up until you make yourself comfortable with blogging. Then you can give a try to long posts. But your main motto should be "JUST KEEP WRITING". Maintaining patience to keep on writing is the must have quality for blogger to be successful.

• Sharing your blog with friends and colleagues: It is very important to share your blog once it's live to increase the readership. Initially it will be just your friends who's gonna read your post, which is obviously a sad part but you need to acquire more audience like family members, friends, classmates, co-workers, who-so-ever you can to support and promote your blog.

• Embracing social media-channels: For becoming a successful blogger, it is important to be present on social media sites like facebook, Twitter, Linkedin etc. Once you post something in your blog you should always share to expose it to more audience. One valuable hint is to look for an #tag on both facebook and twitter. Its easy for other people to find something of same interest.

• Engage with your readers and other bloggers: Its a good practice to look for other bloggers on social sites, who talk about similar stuff of your interest and comment and share on their stuff. Give your ideas, thoughts and opinions freely and eventually people will get engaged with your blog by commenting back.

• Concentrate on content : In spite of everything else, mainly concentrate on writing good and valuable content than can engage and interest readers. It doesn't mean you shouldn't share or promote your blog but without good content everything else doesn't matter much.

By integrating this suggestions into your practice when you initialize your journey to blogging, you will naturally increases the chances of you becoming a successful blogger.

I seriously wonder is it really true that only the blog about blogging, marketing and social media be successful?? What do you guys think??

That's all for this post guys. I am happy to hear your suggestions for my writing and also your opinions about my question...See you soon..