Inspired again – is it sustainable?

Having just spent a very interesting day at the Blogs and Social Media Forum I am now sitting on the train back to Birmingham wondering how I can capitalise on some of the comments and ideas that were discussed. It will take a while to internalise it all but one immediate effect is a renewed drive to incorporate blogging into my daily(?) routine.

Up until now, I have had lots of ideas that I was going to write about but they have not materialised. Listening to the speakers today has helped me to reflect on my own use of this media and identify the self imposed issues I faced. I am not a natural writer; reports and other documents go through a lot of iterations before they are shared and, subconsciously, I have been applying this to my blogging. I would start a post, rewrite it several times and either run out of time or decide that it just wasn’t good enough. The end result – the point does not get made or the information is not available.

My target now is not to agonise over the structure of my writing but to make sure that the information available. If the content is useful then people will have to tolerate my style and with any luck I will improve with practice.