Active Blogger Versus Passive Blogger
Posted by kexbrown on July 9, 2009
Do you categorize your blog as an active blog or do you fit in the category of Passive Blogger? Should you care? What is the difference and what does it mean to me?
Now most people would say that blogging is not a contact sport. But, really it is. Your goal as a blogger is to network with the world. When the reader first visits your blog that is the moment of “FIRST CONTACT.” You aren’t a monument for the masses to climb and gawk. Your blog isn’t an excrement spot for pigeons. You initiate “FIRST CONTACT.”
The Path of Passion
You lead your reader on a path of discovery. Are you an active blogger? Like the birth of a newly hatched chick you strike out to move people with your prose. You take action. Each article you write is not a preliminary report to be followed by the real article later. Fledglings ponder great articles. But, songbirds resonate passion, zeal, sorrow, joy and grandiose symphonies of expression.
The active bloggers have confidence in their opinions. Their faith in their ability give them the same conviction that a grand master maintains. Each move of a chess pawn leads a step closer to the opponent’s king being over-turned.
The passive blogger writes an article and hopes it is their best. The active blogger reviews their work, checks spelling, uses one word to do the work of three and illuminate speech by removing excess verbiage.
Active bloggers understand they are part of a larger game. Like the concussion from a volcano explosion the active blogger moves outward. Each contact vibrates with more activity. Each contact is designed to get a response. To cause an email to be sent. To launch a number of comments. To trigger inquisition.
Infertile Blogging
The poor passive blogger is infertile. Each verse contaminates the crude paragraph that follows. Like an epidemic the blog is quarantined. Impotent words bounce back from self built walls preventing traffic in or out.
Dependable, consistent writing breaks the stillness and burst through the walls of vacant thought. Finding the highway to industriousness you research, you communicate with others, you ask questions and you escape from the jostling legion of mediocrity.
Power of Advertising
Rumination is necessary but action leads to fertility and birth of successful blogging. Advertising awakens the sleeping herds and moves them to arousal. Kinetic energy begins from your blog and assails the blogosphere with conversation.
Become an active blogger with words, emotion and adventure. Escape the tether of passivity. Disintegrate useless blogging behaviors. Use words of fire, discovery and progress.