This is post D, a milestone. In case you haven’t twigged, D is the Roman numeral representing the number 500, and that’s how many posts have been issued from Clive on Learning since October 2005. That’s roughly 10 posts a month.
My first – post I – was called Bringing e-learning into the 21st century. Interestingly it was a simple republishing of a column I had written for a magazine. Nowadays, the process is reversed: I blog first, then elaborate my favourite postings into columns.
As a blogger I have evolved a definite publishing routine:
- I don’t write about personal topics (glimpses into non-professional life can emerge through Facebook and Twitter).
- I aim to write twice a week.
- I write in the style of a magazine column, albeit shorter.
- I don’t accept guest postings.
- I don’t accept ads.
- I aim to be open and honest, without conducting direct attacks on my peers.
- I don’t consult my blog tracking statistics more than once a year or so.
When I started blogging, like all new bloggers, I had no readers. Five years on, I would continue blogging without any readers. As a way of recording the ebbs and flows of my thinking, it works just fine for me.
