I think that I — like many other people — am learning all of the time. There have been numerous times when I have written posts on my blog providing my thoughts on new concepts I’ve learned about current events and other topics. I try to digest what I learn about and provide my perspective based on my experience via my blogs.

The question remains: do I consider myself to be an “expert”? So, the answer is this: I consider myself experienced because I have worked in my industry for about a decade. If being considered an expert means that people think you have nothing new to learn, then I’m not an expert. I’m just another person trying to make sense of the world.

If anything, this helps my readers relate with me instead of feeling like I am “part” of the industry. While I completely look up to trained professionals in the industry who write fabulous blogs, I am pretty proud to stand out the way I do. :)

~Shannon

I believe transparency is required is you’re selling services since now we’re talking money changing hands but if you were able to glean that they weren’t up to snuff, it’s likely any sort of due diligence would’ve picked up on that as well.

Thats why I think its important to know your subject well enough, sure there are things I don’t understand, but I have no problem admitting it either and I think thats just as important, to admit ones own flaws.

-Nilesh
http://www.AppsBI.com

I also always consider myself a novice in any topic. The feeling of “know-it-all” is only a sign that I’ve hit a roadblock somewhere, and usually only a few days pass before I realize I’ve just scratched the surface.

I also think not knowing is part of what keeps me blogging. If I did know it all, I’d stop posting and keep everything to myself.

I don’t believe you need to be an expert, just honest. It is actually refreshing reading about someone talks about the mistakes they have made and what they learnt from the experience.

My view is, you shouldn’t write about somehting

There’s a big difference. The latter are the ones out there doing and moving and shaking things up. They tend to have large audiences and have interesting things to say about their field, no matter how saturated by secondary (the former category) seems to get.

I’m somewhere in the middle. I know FAR more about medicine and pharmacy and healthcare policy than the average bloke. On the other hand I’m not exactly out there being involved.

That said, I’ve been told that I could teach CEs for healthcare professionals by other healthcare professionals, so they may be onto something. Maybe I’m better than I think I am, but I doubt it…

The one thing that I’ve really noticed is that those experts who are bloggers are often very narrow in their focus. They don’t do a good job of tying things outside their field together in a way that is meaningful. That remains for the secondary types to do — and some of them do it admirably. I like to think I’m one of those.

Narrow and deep vs broad and shallow.

I think it’s probably best to have a bit of both.

Work on the content, then design, then SEO. In my opinion..

I mean for new blogger, what more important; blog design, seo or else

Thanks,

Jon