It's the question people ask me most often. (Well, possibly after, "Do you think anyone actually reads the things bloggers write?"
The answer is: it isn't easy. Nearly every blogger I know has very little "extra" time.
But we keep up our blogs because we think it's important. We find time during the day (I often scan a blog or two when I'm waiting on hold on the telephone.) We squeeze in a few minutes of blogging at the beginning or the end of our day.
But we keep at it. I won't speak for anyone else, but I find as an elected official that blogging gives me two critical things. First, I get a chance to share my thoughts. Even more important, voters can share their thoughts with me.
Now with this new blog, it's even more important to keep those lines of communication open. So although it's late at night, I'm here posting--and I'll be here reading whenever I can.
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Good question! How do you find time to blog?
I've found that time spent blogging is better leveraged than time spent responding to, say, Email. In Web 1.0 days I invested a lot of energy crafting Email messages to citizens. They were works of art: Powerful (in my modest opinion), thorough, highly informative in both technical detail and political philosophy, with rhythmic prose that would bring tears to your eyes. Dylan Thomas could have done no better. I hit 'send' and . . . crickets. No response. No discernible impact. The recipient probably printed it and stuck it on the bottom of his bird cage.
But . . . post the same text on a blog site and the same citizen still reads it, but so do several hundred others – friends, enemies, a few reporters, political junkies, government officials, and people you don't even know. Maybe even your grandmother. Maybe an aspiring public servant 100 miles away. AND they all are implicitly invited to engage by adding their perspective. And I have the opportunity to answer any concerns with more information.
PLUS the text sticks in the web so the topic will turn up in word searches in perpetuity.
All for the time commitment it would take to send an Email.
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