Self-Promotion in Graduate School Part 3: I blog, therefore I am
It is almost to the point of being passé now for people to have blogs. In the halls of academic digeratti it is almost de regugre. The real question is what does a self-promoting graduate student need or want with a log. With classes, readings, GA’s and homework no one has any real time to do more work. Work you won’t get paid for or even receive much credit. With all these issues there are still several reasons to have a blog:
No one can find you in the dark
You have to turn on a light to help people find you and your work. A blog does this in a clean and professional manner. I have connected to other grad students and professors via my blog. These are people I might never have met if I had not been writing a blog.
A blog provides a textual sandbox
When I am working on an idea and have just part of it thought out I write a blog entry. Also if I have an idea I want to get out of my head, I write a blog entry. When I find something interesting I want to share with my friends, I write a blog entry. Get the idea?
Practice makes perfect
If you re looking to take a living as an academic in the humanities, you have to write all the time. The more you write the better you are going to get. The more you write the easier it is to organize you ideas. The more you writ, the clearer your ideas get.
It gets you into a schedule
I blog 3-4 times a week, or try to. By blogging I am always evaluating new things and re-evaluating things. It keeps me on a schedule and keeps me grounded. If I run into something on Facebook I know I tend o blog about FaceBook on Fridays so I store the link in del.icio.us and move on. Come Friday I have a nice topic to write about and so I write and entry.
So if you don’t have a blog, start one. If you have one have you written something in the last month or week? How are you promoting your blog? What would make you blog more. Please put answers in the comments.
5 February 2007 | Mark Bell, self-promotion, blogs | Comments
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One Response to “Self-Promotion in Graduate School Part 3: I blog, therefore I am”
1 Marty 9 March 2007 @ 10:19 am
Great posts on self-promotion. I realized today that I have never searched under Marty Tormoehlen and only under Martin Tormoehlen. It was interesting to see the results.
Have you read much from Tom Peters? He talks about the importance of branding yourself.
http://www.tompeters.com
http://www.tompeters.com/tpc/bibo.php