Yesterday, I got the question “why do you blog?” of course I had around a million answers to respond with. Then I realized that the reason the person asked was not to find out why I blogged but to see if there was any reason to why he should blog.
This got me thinking about what [...]
Archive for April, 2009
279 days to overnight success
Posted By Annelie Näs on April 17th, 2009
I wanted to share and amazing free gift:
11,000 words of free advice on how to create your own success with your own project.
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I really need to read this: But I don’t have time now
Posted By Annelie Näs on April 9th, 2009
I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Perhaps you are doing research for work or you get a tweet with a very interesting link to an article or blog post that you really want to read. But because you are in the middle of something you cannot read it right away. So you put it away for later.
I usually pull up a word document and past interesting links there, especially if when I do research because I am used to find a lot of good interesting content that I want to read but that aren’t related to what I’m working on. In other cases I usually save it as a bookmark that usually get lost in the hundreds of bookmarks for pages I need to go back to more often. I’m sure you have your own ways to handle the issue.
Anyway, tonight about 30 minutes ago I found the perfect solution (from a tweet)
How it Works:
- You sign up very easy with a nickname your email and your password.
- Then you come to a the page above where you are supposed to click on the icons “I need to read this” and “Read an article” to your bookmarks bar.
- Then you can leave the page and go find some interesting articles.
- When you find an interesting articles you just press “I need to read this” in you bookmarks bar and it automatically saves the article to your reading list.
- When every you have time to read an article you just press “Read an article” and it links you directly to the oldest article in your list. (Without passing the main site)
- If you want to read a particular article you just log on to the site and find it in your list.
Pretty amazing tool right? I know that I will be a frequent user!
How could I know that people wanted to read my stuff?
Posted By Annelie Näs on April 4th, 2009
When I started this blog my idea was to put something up here to have a design and host, so I could start producing content, and then when I have time I would design the blog to be something I am actually proud of. Little did I know that people would actually read my blog..
That might sound weird, but honestly I thought that my blog would have about a 100 visitors a month and later that that would grow in time. So imagine my surprise when that amount of visitors came in the first 3 days. That was pretty cool I though, imagining that most of those where people who did not know me and just happened to stumble upon my site.
So when two of my actual friends told me, “hey, I checked out your blog,” within two days, my head really started spinning. And I realise that I am too public online to not have people visiting my webpage. Which is why I know am focusing on coming up with a design I can actually be proud over.
What I want to say with this story is that you should never underestimate the power of internet, and how many users is actually on it. If you want to share your thoughts and ideas, it might be easier than you think.
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