About 2 years ago, I was fortunate enough to join 9rules, an exclusive blog network. Today, I have joined another upcoming (albeit much smaller, with a maximum of 10 members at this moment) blog network called Grand Effect.
Grand Effect is a network specifically for technology bloggers and I am joining some long-time blogfriends such as Sarah (in Tampa) and Ghacks. I look forward to becoming blogfriends of other members of the network such as eXtra for Every Publisher, WinExtra and SheGeeks, ParisLemon, The Last Podcast and Mark Evans Tech.
Even though Grand Effect already has a fairly worldwide range of writers, because Mark Evans and David of XFEP are Canadian; Martin of gHacks is in Germany (Guten Tag!); and several others are in the US, I hope to provide another European voice!
As well as being a collection of fantastic tech bloggers, Grand Effect is a great advertising opportunity for start-ups and tech companies who wish to penetrate the tech blogosphere as they could easily find themselves on several tech blogs.
I have already received a very warm from network members, so thank you!
On a sidenote, 9rules is currently having an admissions round so apply if you fancy joining!
Former fellow 9ruler Mashable has covered Grand Effect twice. (link, link)
This summer I’ve found that blogging became less and less enjoyable: I found a solution. I spent too long worrying about statistics: how many people visited my blog, how my blog compared to others (Alexa ranks etc) and what people were visiting.
I tried to write for my audience and not for myself. Ironically, as a result of this audience participation fell. I realised this but realised I’d continue to do the former until I stopped worrying about statistics so I uninstalled my Alexa, Compete and Google PageRank Firefox extensions.
I enjoy blogging again; I want to blog. I don’t put off writing a post as long as I can but I do one whenever I feel like it (which is fairly frequently again :)). I don’t have to spend hours brainstorming for ideas; they just come.
More observant readers might have noticed a shift from reviews which became tedious to write towards a more ‘general’ style of blogging.
So to put it briefly: blog for yourself and the odds are your audience will like it. Don’t worry about statistics, either!
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