Steli Efti - A Learning Lunatic
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
What is a blog to you? Well, for me a blog is a wonderful, magical and powerful tool to learn. I started with a very business oriented approach to blogging. I had this idea of Supercool School and as an unexercised Internet user it was the easiest and fastest way to do some important homework and get some real-life feedback. I used my blog as a very raw (and free) market research and alpha testing tool.
After that I started the project and kept my blog simply as a place for random thoughts and ideas. I didn’t know anything about the true beauty and power of blogging back then. I used to stand upon the roundtable to blog and talked to an audience instead of joining the conversations in the bloggosphere. Now, it’s so much more fun to blog and it has become even more then a learning tool - it’s a great way to find new friends!
How do I blog? I still have to figure it out for myself. What I can say is that I daily check my reader, my thoughts and the activity on my blog (comments, visitors, back links) and then decide what to write. I am very hard to myself when it comes to quality of content and writing something that I am happy with in the end is probably my biggest time-eater (I guess I’m not alone with this ;). I believe I have to learn how to be more effective with my blogging because I likely won’t have the same amount of time for it after SupercoolSchool.com has launched.
And how do I plan to become a better and more effective blogger? A big wonder, a little magic and some power is all I’m asking for ;) Some prominent links from my blog I want to share?
http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/i_used_to_stand.html
http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/the_education_a.html
http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/the_supercool_d.html
Check out the virtual EduBlogger Event07 on my blog (12 great bloggers posted something about education and started cool conversations...)
http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/edublogger_event07/index.html
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Labels: Fine Art of Blogging
posted by Shirazi @ 9:04 AM,
2 Comments:
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At 20:07,
EXSENO said...
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What is a blog to me. It's a learning tool and a recreational tool and many time it's been a place just to vent, and interact. I have traveled to places that I would not be able to travel to in person. I have learned things from other people and I think most important of all had the oportunity to meet people from all around the world. Something I surely would have never been able to do. It has been a pleasure to be able to make acquaintances with new people and learn about different customs everwhere. As a learning tool I have found that sometimes it's much better to get the facts from a person living in a certain condition, rather then the news media. Having a blog has been a wonderful experience and quite an eye opener as well. I really feel like I have made some friends that I know I care very much about and I think some care about me too.
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At 21:15,
Vics said...
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lets see if a link works shall we?
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