Comments on: Are You Leaving Your Blog to Chance? http://www.blogherald.com/2009/07/15/testing/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rebecca Laffar-Smith http://www.blogherald.com/2009/07/15/testing/comment-page-1/#comment-1102998 Rebecca Laffar-Smith Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:51:30 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/?p=13292#comment-1102998 I think one of the biggest and perhaps a rather daunting aspect of blogging is that our errors are always very public. Each new thing we try is put into public scrutiny long before we can truly judge the success it may or may not bring. Sometimes, the greatest success comes from taking chances. The biggest risks earn greatest rewards and we can't be afraid to look a little stupid. The good news is, that everyone is on the same footing. Those we look up to now have been where we are today, they've made mistakes we can learn from because they didn't have those that had done before. In order to truly emulate the greatest minds we have to do things that haven't been done. You can mimic to some degree but eventually you've got to start making your own mistakes or forever dog the footsteps of others, forever be a step behind. The question is, what are you learning from the new things you're trying? The only way you know what works and what doesn't is not just to try new things but to evaluate the results of what you're doing. I think one of the biggest and perhaps a rather daunting aspect of blogging is that our errors are always very public. Each new thing we try is put into public scrutiny long before we can truly judge the success it may or may not bring. Sometimes, the greatest success comes from taking chances. The biggest risks earn greatest rewards and we can’t be afraid to look a little stupid.

The good news is, that everyone is on the same footing. Those we look up to now have been where we are today, they’ve made mistakes we can learn from because they didn’t have those that had done before. In order to truly emulate the greatest minds we have to do things that haven’t been done. You can mimic to some degree but eventually you’ve got to start making your own mistakes or forever dog the footsteps of others, forever be a step behind.

The question is, what are you learning from the new things you’re trying? The only way you know what works and what doesn’t is not just to try new things but to evaluate the results of what you’re doing.

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