Blogging: My, how I’m learning
When I decided to create my blog, I’ll be honest, I didn’t quite know what I was doing. Today, however, after watching Scott Rosenberg’s “10 Myths About Blogs” video, I have learned that blogging is really all about posting what you’re passionate about. Simple right? Well, I guess that would depend on whether you know what you’re passionate about. Therein lies the challenge with me. What am I truly passionate about?
Although I wrote that I was passionate about graphic design in a previous post, I think the biggest passion I have is helping people. This makes sense as my first blog post is titled Online Learning: My Journey Begins. I originally began my blog to help those interested in going to school online find valuable information. Before I began at Full Sail University I had a hard time finding quality research on the best online schools, what the workload was like, tips on how to succeed, etc. Then when I actually began at Full Sail, I was learning so much information that I wanted to share with the world, I thought I would shift my blog more towards Internet Marketing. So today I have decided that my blog is going to be about helping people in a variety of ways, but mostly geared toward maximizing the technology advancements in today’s rapidly growing world. By creating posts about the advancements in technology, I am truly able to talk about exactly what my blog was geared toward in the beginning, and a lot more! In addition I am able to help people make decisions based on my personal experience or research I’ve done.
Regardless of what I want to write about, as Rosenberg suggests, a blog following will be completely irrelevant if we don’t build trust. By providing information to the world and helping to make people’s lives easier (especially in regard to technology!), I am hoping to build trust and relationships with everyone who reads my blog.
Here’s to a new (blog) beginning!
Designing My Passion
Lately I have been doing much thinking about what I’m most passionate about in life. There are several things, don’t get me wrong, however, one thing that comes to mind is graphic design.
About four years ago I was asked to create what my boss referred to as a “desktop reminder card” for the service department at the company I was working for. Basically what this is is a sign the customer service representatives can post on their computer monitor and then refer to when they’re on calls, ensuring they don’t miss anything with the customer. I had never designed anything before and had very limited knowledge as to how basic software programs like Microsoft Word functioned. I created this card, however, and the reaction from my boss was, “How cute!” I wasn’t sure if I should take this as a compliment or not, but I did when she continued asking me to “design” things for her.
When I would start up the computer and open Microsoft Publisher, I had no clue what I was doing. Oddly enough, it must have been something right. I was having fun making things for the training department and other areas of the company and my boss was liking what I was doing. This inspired me to research and learn more about graphic design. Only a few years and several classes later, I mastered Microsoft Publisher, Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Adobe Captivate 2, 3 & 4, and begun the journey towards mastering the Adobe Creative Suite.
I say that I am passionate about graphic design because whatever I know about it, which I now realize is a lot, was all self-taught. I never had a mentor or guide to help me learn. I will now continue using everything I have learned and still learn today and master my skills even further. Although I don’t want a full-time career in graphic design, I will always push myself to the next level.
