I met Ben a number of weeks ago at the Catalyst One Day event. Honestly, it was one of those “freak” meetings that wasn’t planned; it just happened.
I like when it goes down like that.
I’ve been astounded by his blogging frequency; sometimes 3 to 4 posts a day! I guess he doesn’t have enough to do (oh *snap*).
đŸ˜‰
This morning Ben’s posted a very insightful post about ‘Developing a Listener’s Palate‘ and I thought it’s application, perhaps, exceeded his conscientious motivation. In other words, I think what he blogged is definitely applicable to the online space.
Part of what we do as we begin blogging is helping the reader to understand the “relationship” that’s being formed. Part of that is working out their “listening skills” and providing them consistency so that they can begin to know what to expect to a certain degree.
What ends up happening is that you’re beginning to train them in terms of the engagement, and they begin to learn the nuances of who you are as a blogger, as a writer, as a person, and as a content provider.
Practically speaking, for example, if you’ve trained them to be relatively “mindless” in their consumption of data when you blog because you blog about stuff that is relatively boring and of apparently little value, don’t cry when they don’t comment or don’t “talk” with you much.
As Ben says, “[You] raised them that way.”
Anna Meadows says
That is so true… It really makes me think about the content I put on my blogs… Great post. Can't wait to hang at the Orange conference…
human3rror says
It's going to be awesoooooooooooooooooooooooooome.
Jim says
it's taking awhile to gain an audience and consistent readers. working on a long-term writing schedule /plan and less about worrying about creative inspiration.