Blogging or not as the case may be
I have obviously not posted here for months. It is not that I didnt enjoy it, it is not that I havn’t been publishing content online regularly. I have just not found time nor the focus to do much with this. Changes have meant I do not have the spare time I once had so much of. Recently though, inspired by a few friends, social media and blogging have become something I would like to do more again.
Instead of starting a new blog I plan on using this one. I love the name – Technogumption. I will still talk about techy things and internet marketing is still something I am very interested in. The biggest change will be that the blog is now more personal.
Lets see how it goes.
Technogumption dot com – An introduction
Its January 2008 and with new years come new things. Blogging has been around for sometime now and has boomed over the last couple of years, although not at the same rate as when it first made it big. It has now reached the point where high profile, credible journalists and writers are blogging. Blogs are being published as books by traditional print publishers, there are numerous blogging award ceremonies and bloggers are receiving press passes for major conferences. Most incredibly people are making a good living from their blogging either by blogging for a network as a job, or through their own personal blogs. Company blogs have started popping up as businesses have realised the value a more personable and human interaction with their customers can have on their sales figures. In more competitive areas, the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) benefits of a blog are being cashed in on.
All in all, we at Technogumption are coming to blogging pretty late. This means we are going where many have gone before. That’s normally a bad thing right? Not always! It does have its advantages. We know the downfalls of many blogs. Although there are well over 70 million blogs out there with around 120,000 being started everyday (according to Technorati’s CEO David Sifry). This does not mean these blogs are active, or updated with any regularity and also there’s no indication of the quality of all those blogs. In fact while there are many excellent blogs on the internet, the average and mediocre make up the majority. One of our aims is to rise above the level of averageness, although having said that, few people will set out to write a mediocre blog and quality is often more a result of long term commitment.
What will make us stand out from the crowd in the blogosphere? We are writing in English. A pretty obvious statement I know but, only 36% of blogs are in the English language so that cuts the numbers down pretty dramatically. With us being based in the UK our content will at times have a British spin on it and we will be trying to spell things the British way. e.g. “colour” (UK) rather than “color” (US).
Our focus is on technology and the internet and we are aimed at individuals and small businesses. We hope to provide insight into how intelligent use of technology and the internet can help in terms of productivity, cutting overheads and prospering. We assume little to no knowledge, so are suitable for those at an entry to intermediate level in the world of online business. We not only hope to introduce topics but also show you where to go to find out more!
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Hello World! – Get Some Gumption
Hello.
Having spent a lot of time sitting around surfing the information superhighway, producing a fairly general purpose web log, (or blog as they are more commonly known), seemed like the natural thing to do, so here we go…
Welcome to Technogumption dot com. This unusual name came as a result of a quick brainstorming session. We wanted the name to reflect the content of the site in some way. Our main intellectual(ish) pursuits can be broadly described as being based on technology and going about the business of life. So we came up with some words that described the blog feel we wanted to achieve, then using online dictionary and thesaurus websites to find definitions and alternative words and phrases, we came up “technogumption”. Technogumption is the amalgamation of two great words, “technology”, (which is fairly obvious, although covers a wider field than most people initially assume), and “gumption”, is a sense of drive, audacity, having the capacity to achieve, etc.
If you have “technogumption” you have the ability to overcome real world obstacles through researching and learning about technology and techniques, from the ground up, allowing you to achieve virtually anything.
We hope you enjoy our blog.