Anyway. Today's Armchair BEA topic is blogging about blogging.
When I blog, I mostly try to put quality content up here. I write reviews as often as I can, though I don't review every YA/MG/children's title I read (sometimes you just gotta enjoy it). I also try to keep the memes to a minimum, unless I know it will increase the quality of my blog.
I would really my readers to get to know me and like when other bloggers are able to include personal information in their posts, but I often find it difficult to know how much to put in. I don't want this to be a blog about ME, but about the books I enjoy (which is part of me, true, but not all). I think in the future I'll try to include a bit more about librarianship and what I value in the career path I've chosen to pursue. I do a few posts here and there but nothing to write home about. (On a side note, I just renewed my memberships to ALA [American Library Association] and YALSA [Young Adult Library Services Association], so I'm kind of excited about that.)
I use Twitter a lot to promote and to get to know other bloggers, and have them get to know me, too, but maybe someday I will be more comfortable and confident in sharing more here.
I really like blogging. It's fun and it's useful to me, especially since I can keep track of all the books I read and review much more easily (provided I keep up with cataloging them. Bad librarian!). I just khave to remember that it's something I do for fun and not an obligation! Sometimes I get too stressed from it all, but I eventually make it back to where I need to be.
Anyway, that's me and blogging. Do you have my same issues, or different ones? What does blogging mean to you?
This is a pretty big topic today on the Armchair BEA blogs. I think that it can be argued both ways, and that either stance is perfectly fine. My blog was personal long before I started doing reviews, and since a lot of what I read is to bolster projects in life, it seems fine for me to keep it that way.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I will admit to struggling including career stuff for quite a while, but the topics of libraries and what goes on just seemed to wedge itself in, especially with ebooks.
Good luck to you. It's been great finding all of these new blogs (and librarians!) this week.