Comments on: Blogging Leads to New Skills

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:39:12 +0000

@Teresa – You’re welcome! I have found it quite helpful myself. In book form, I like to use the O’Rielly Pocket Reference to HTML & XHTML.

By: Teresa Hall

Teresa Hall — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:10:51 +0000

Hi Michael,
Once again, the Remarkablogger to the rescue. I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get a handle on all things “site building related.” I spent what seemed like hours yesterday looking through the HTML code on my blog to try and find a problem.

The link on here to W3C Schools was just what I needed! Thanks!

By: Mark Dowling

Mark Dowling — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:49:51 +0000

Time management, and persistence. When you ‘report’ to yourself (and, I guess, to your readers), there’s no hiding when you haven’t done what you should’ve.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:30 +0000

Great post! After you are blogging for a few years, you basically are a web engineer and the vice president of marketing. You either pick all these things up, are rich enough to pay someone else to or your blog becomes a ghost town. There is really no other route.

By: Conrad Hees

Conrad Hees — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:25:25 +0000

My new skills that blogging has brought me are similar to everyone else’s….SEO, writing better, blog in general, marketing, and internet marketing in general. The people I know sound freakin’ amazed when i tell them some of the stuff I can do now!

By: Jim Gaudet

Jim Gaudet — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:47:24 +0000

I would have to say SEO, marketing and advertisng. I have learned a lot of CSS as well, a great help to me.

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:09:12 +0000

What's interesting is that I link to Brian in this post and on Copyblogger today is a post about partnering with others and not doing everything yourself. He makes a great point and it's worth a read. I left a couple comments on the post, too.

By: Trevor Wolfe

Trevor Wolfe — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:18:21 +0000

I can’t wait until I get past step two. CSS/HTML is giving me terrible afternoon headaches, and the blog hasn’t even launched yet. Great and inspiring post.

By: Chris D.

Chris D. — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:11:55 +0000

This is so very true, before I started blogging I knew nothing about html, or social networks or internet marketing etc. and Now I not only have a very active website and two blogs, but I was asked to teach a class on blogging for one of my online groups! Who would have thought that would happen after a year of blogging.

By the way some really good info here in your article too!

By: Jodith

Jodith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:45:51 +0000

The marketing/networking thing is what’s hardest for me. I’m a serious introvert, and I’ve found starting conversations on the web is just as hard as starting them in real life *laughs*. Some day I have to break out of my nerdiness and learn so social skills.