http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/30/when-your-blog-forces-you-to-keep-your-commitments/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/30/when-your-blog-forces-you-to-keep-your-commitments/comment-page-1/#comment-277073 Weekly Digest: Lorelle Back Home Finally, Conspiracy Theories Everywhere, Will You Go Naked, and More « Lorelle on WordPress Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:41:54 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/30/when-your-blog-forces-you-to-keep-your-commitments/#comment-277073 [...] When Your Blog Forces You To Keep Your Commitments got a lot of people thinking about how a personal commitment to a project can be enhanced by incorporating a blog. I heard an interview on NPR with a Seattle journalist who used a blog to keep his commitment to learn how to cook as he cooked a meal for each weekend’s football team, using a recipe and information about the Seattle Seahawk’s opponent’s city. [...] [...] When Your Blog Forces You To Keep Your Commitments got a lot of people thinking about how a personal commitment to a project can be enhanced by incorporating a blog. I heard an interview on NPR with a Seattle journalist who used a blog to keep his commitment to learn how to cook as he cooked a meal for each weekend’s football team, using a recipe and information about the Seattle Seahawk’s opponent’s city. [...]

]]> http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/30/when-your-blog-forces-you-to-keep-your-commitments/comment-page-1/#comment-275954 Oryx Orange Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:06:15 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/30/when-your-blog-forces-you-to-keep-your-commitments/#comment-275954 Nice post, but I don't think this is by any means unique to bloggging. It has always been true that announcing something publicly, whether it be a stated intention to your co-workers to lose weight, speaking your wedding vows in front of a couple hundred people, or announcing plans on your blog to learn to cook, is a recipe for commitment. Anyone who evangelizes about something in front of others knows it binds them to a course of action or a way of thinking. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad, but it's almost always true. Nice post, but I don’t think this is by any means unique to bloggging. It has always been true that announcing something publicly, whether it be a stated intention to your co-workers to lose weight, speaking your wedding vows in front of a couple hundred people, or announcing plans on your blog to learn to cook, is a recipe for commitment. Anyone who evangelizes about something in front of others knows it binds them to a course of action or a way of thinking. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes that’s bad, but it’s almost always true.

]]> http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/30/when-your-blog-forces-you-to-keep-your-commitments/comment-page-1/#comment-274600 Goals by Blog • Griffin & Hoxie Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:30:02 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/11/30/when-your-blog-forces-you-to-keep-your-commitments/#comment-274600 [...] VanFossen over at the Blog Herald shares her thoughts on how your blog can help you stick to your commitments. It’s a well written article, per usual for Lorelle, and I agree. You know, you if write a [...] [...] VanFossen over at the Blog Herald shares her thoughts on how your blog can help you stick to your commitments. It’s a well written article, per usual for Lorelle, and I agree. You know, you if write a [...]

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