1000petals; open a new petal every day
Friday, April 11, 2008
Then I realised that I still want to share more than this topic and started 1000petals - my sweetest and the most joyful baby that let me treat it as often as possible without much effort. Then my best friend invited me to join the administration of our exclusive club`s blog, and here I am with 5 blogs!
As my art of blogging was unfolding, it turned out to be a tender and yet powerful 6 petal flower:
- Beauty. Most of the Internet users are visualy-oriented. Surprisingly not all bloggers use pictures as a powerful tool. The world is bubbling with colors: majestic landscapes, breath-taking close ups of flowers, people expressing emotions - why not mirror it?! It is almost a physical pleasure for me to fish for elevating pictures on Flickr and then put them on my blogs.
- SEO - as far as I understand, Wordpress promotes you automatically to Google, and that is the best engine anyway. I was thinking of further SEO but then realized two things: 1) I am unlikely to go to any other search engines If I am looking for something particular, so how many people actually do that? Probably not many. 2) If my blog is good, it will attract readers anyway (which actually happens). So I refused from any further SEO activities.
- Being authentic. Being authentic is one of my strongest personal feature, and same case with my blogs. No false roles, borrowed concepts, snatched ideas and tricks. Whatever I post is gone through my experiences and represents my core qualities and values.
- Highest achievement. The most surprising fact in my short blogging history was the first personal email of a reader which I got. And then it grew like a snowball! People (and what caliber of people!) seek my friendship outside blogging and find it: a bunch of unfolding relationships is on my email list and in my heart. The funny thing is that I was never interested in Internet-provided relationships for the simple reason of my rich social life. Not that I am lacking some more dosens of friends :) But people get attracted, what can I do?
- Attraction. A popular word with a desirable content. Due to the weired value system of today one can easily attract people with the universal values of tomorrow, for they appear fresh and truly elevating. Practicing Sahaja Yoga for 11 years gave me such a unique world perception that readers find it fascinating to learn something entirely new. Right now I am preparing a spate of posts about "Divine Geography" for 1000petals. Uniqueness is only a tool of attraction though. Guess what is the driving force of it?
- LOVE is the almighty key to the heart of everyone. Same works for blogging. People get attracted by the love pouring from your blog like bees to the blossoming flower...I suggest regarding Love as the best SEO! Love which is just about putting much heart into it.Unconditionally.
Internet is a lonely place without Blogging; a fine art, also s science. Blogs are different to different people. In the first project, Quasi Fictional that still focuses on blogging basics, I asks prominent blog artists (through emails and this post) to share their views on what is blog to you? Here are the previous posts: Liz Strauss, Aliza Sherman Risdahl, Mihaela Lica, Sterling W. Camden, Peg Haustetter, Steli Efti, Vicky Stringer, EXSENO
You are invited to contribute.
Labels: Fine Art of Blogging
posted by Shirazi @ 9:30 PM,
8 Comments:
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At 17:01,
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Another useful post by blogger of colors, if I may say, di0. Look forward to reading inside views of real bloggers here.
Jiya -
At 19:31,
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Love unconditionally! Which world are you living in Axinia?
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At 19:50,
axinia said...
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Good question, echa!
I may sound too idealistic, but i works with me :)
All my life is a proof of that. It is just so enjoyble... -
At 12:32,
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A popular word with a desirable content. Due to the weired value system of today one can easily attract people with the universal values of tomorrow, for they appear fresh and truly elevating. This needs a lil explanation. What do you mean by desireable content and values of tomorrow? Care to rxplain!
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At 20:09,
Axinia said...
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Dear Echa, Thanks for this iportrant question!
Today the world is in a mess, and every nation and culture climes to have their own values, but there is a universal value system for everyone. I am writing about many of these values in my blogs. - sorry, it´s a long talk, I can not put it all in a comment :) -
At 20:15,
axinia said...
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dear echo, very important question!
Every nation and country has it`s values, and they are often differ. However there is a universal value system which fits every one. it will take some more time to get to it, but we are one the way :)
Some of these values are described in my blogs... -
At 17:07,
Yuva said...
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i find Blog to Flame has interesting information source on business of blogging.
/Yuva -
At 22:40,
Mobashir Ahmed said...
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A good post. A picture is better than 1000 words. I agree.
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