At least thats what drowe me to start blogging…
The personal branding is evident, since I’m using my familyname (www.soderblom.dk), but that also calls for maintaining a certain amount of quality (hmmm… Objectivly… ;-) ???).
But I honestly believe that I have something worth sharing !
It’s a variety off material like running and training advices (I’m a certified physical trainer), my travelling logs, stuff thats primarily off interest to the closest family, and so on…
I wrote a lot about the birth of my youngest son Silas, and though it’s very personal and family related I’ve had many hits and positive comment to it, from couples about to give birth them self.

The majority of my blog is filled up with my Running Diary and honestly, it’s not that interesting to anyone else.
But keeping it out there in the bloggosphere helps keep the motivation.
And I always write about the races I’m in. The atmosphere, the track, the people, the event and so on. And that might inspire someone else to take up running… (?)

Making money ?
There are less off us old vikings, than there is people in NY !!!
(Personal Military service in Croatia, Bosnia, Irak, Namibia, Afghanistan (My son just came home from Kosovo and is about to leave for Afghanistan) (A Viking tradition !))
So writing in Danish, as I do, leaves me only with a limited amount off people that can actually read what I write…
And therefore the monymaking is not that great, but it pays for the hosting, though.

I’m also using my blog to advertise my experiences with Linux (before: SuSE. now: Ubuntu) and then I love tweaking with the PHP on my Wordpress installation.

I think I’ve covered why I Blog :-)

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It’s true that I write because I want to. It makes me improve my writing abilities, my competence in other fields of writing and the like. But when I speak of blogging, I want to learn more about making money through it. After all, it’s a decent thing though–making money through my hobbies is quite interesting. However, I still have to learn the tips and tricks on effective blogging since I am still a beginner in the field.

Personally, I work in the telecoms industry and you need to be up to date with news, technologies and trends, and that motivates me to write about it: technology, Web 2.0, Semantic Web, etc.

I also write because, I used to dream about being a writer (as a kid), so this is my closest approach to that.

I started writing to make money, my first blog (long since gone) was a parody news site and I made quite good money from it, but I got burned out a bit and abandoned the site (boy was that a mistake!) At the moment I write to try and motivate myself, rather unsuccessfully at the moment….

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I found only one problem with my strategy and is that Gmail apparently has a limit on the number of different emails you can refer in one account, but anyway, the email could be forwarded to any other account, but in this case, the headers should be rewrited to answer with the original sender address, because Outlook Express only use real email addresses to send email, not forwarders.

But this is a solution to the spam problem once and for all, without filtering email and not receiving even 1 spam message, and it only takes a little work to add your contacts.

Writing has even provided me with a form of entertainment and reasons to go out and do things that I wanted to do anyway (just so i could write about it).

Of course writing is self-expression, creativity is at the heart of me. I have a need to express what’s inside through writing and music and more recently art too.

With In Love With Lisbon it’s about sharing my love of the place as well as providing practical information. My other site (This Dreaming Heart) is a creative and spiritual journey that anyone can peer into. The best that can happen is that something I have said or created touches someone and evokes a response or recognition. Essentially I guess for me it’s all about making a connection…

I got started blogging on vox, it was very easy, and allowed my mind to play and have fun, and after about 8 months realized that I needed more. It wasn’t the right format for me to share all of the things that went along with our adventures.

we are currently developing our wordpress blog, and I had no idea how much fun that could be! wow! and now as it turns out, with the new upgrades of wordpress, we are able to integrate our website, our blog, and connect our online community all into one! Thank goodness we just switched over, or we could never be accomplishing what we are doing. ;)

(hopefully launches within a week or so, keeping our fingers crossed) we learn everything as we go, shone and I, have learned coding, web designing, graphic designing, and photography, blogging, all by just the desire to do so. We are in our fourth year of planning and have been live for 14 months.

anything is possible when you have the passion and desire, writing also helps me share my love and hopefully re-lite some others passions who are fading out. I believe!

I write because I love to connect with people. I love to share my perspectives, and get others input. I love to learn, and I love to share things with others, inspirations, health, and anything else in life I am curious about.

Our website is for those 18 and over, so I am free to share my silly little brain, and the pictures that we take.

We take a lot of pictures for our website, which is another reason I blog:

to help navigate our ship through the internet, promoting my favorite artist ever, the love of my life!.

To share our adventures, and to find others who want to join, either as a member (subscriber), or as a participant( in pictures).

We walk in many different worlds, and our hope is to connect many different earthlings, to share inspiration, collaboration, and fade away the judgements when others are different.

We share our love for the planet, and animals, in a non pushy, celebrated manner. It is one of the underlying fuels for our worldy navigations. Writing makes it so easy to connect with others who have similiar interests. Our new blog is not even up yet, and I already have comments and a wonderful new collaboration. I love that!

We promote artists! of all kinds, and are so honored to collaborate with the majority of other artists we meet. So much can be done on the internet, so many introductions, connections, and love!

we love every second of everyday that we live! and we share it all, our adventures, explorations, festivals, sexual adventures, self expressing adventures, life is here to be lived!

thank goodness for blogging! the greatest way to share and get all of the benefits, just cause: internet trafficking, google searching, etc., and learning more everyday

wishing you all a magical day

I am now going to categorise the blog into several wedding related categories to help brides and grooms and guests plan for the day, and even have fun with general thought-provoking topics.

I have set up Google alerts for several of my proposed topics and that has helped me learn even more about my industry.

Just added a wedding day blog page where newly weds can read messages left by guests after their wedding – from their honeymoon if they like.

The world really is your own personal oyster with a blog, and I am just looking forward to finding more and more pearls.

Keep up the EXCELLENT (not just good) work by the way Darren: INSPIRATIONAL!

As an adult, I write journals, online journals, blogs, websites, and for a while I was writing songs – music, lyrics, arrangements. Why? Great question. I feel like that’s who I am. Pop psychology would have us believe that we shouldn’t identify who we are with what we do – but … oh well, you know?

I just finished writing a novel, and it was something I’d been planning to write for many years. It took on a life of its own. The main character became so real I almost thought I was her!

Another reason for writing – you mentioned this and it struck a chord with me: community. How strange. Writing is a solitary activity! But here we are, in community, sharing ideas and feeling like we have a strong bond.

All I can say is, thank heaven for the 21st century. I remember the days of the IBM Selectric II. I thought we were ready to shoot for Mars. My Queendom for a laptop!

After awhile, I started getting paid to write but the FIRST impulse? It was sheer joy, no pay (although I did win a set of encyclopedias as a kid) and having to reach a wider audience.

Writing felt like my calling. It still does.

Having an archive of thoughts, even if a bit nutty at times, is nice to have. Also, knowing that my children will be able to read this stuff (and maybe even comment!) someday, is a bit of a comfort, too.

But when I sit down to write a post, despite all the other reasons already listed above, the primary one is to get something out of my head. Yeah, that might sound a bit too “Unabomber Manifesto-ish” to some who don’t understand it. Which is a shame.

Our children grow up not knowing how to write – and being made to feel ashamed of their ideas. They days of the essayist and the idea-man (Chesterton, Buckley, C.S. Lewis) seem to be declining, at least when it pertains to writing. Cultural commentary is reserved for experts: television media pundits, newspaper columnists, talk show hosts, singer/songwriters, and comedians. We, the common man, are constantly advised not to bring up certain issues in mixed company – which pretty much means in front of anyone.

And so, no one thinks anymore. No one analyzes. No one states the painfully obvious at times. And while there are those who think it is ridiculous to blog, there are those (like me) who find it increasingly shallow to keep a man’s opinions all to himself and are afraid to put their voice out there – just because they might later be wrong.

Sure, it’s great to make money from blogging, or to network (love it), or to help someone understand something, or to temporarily escape into the writing. But, for me at least, it’s mostly about getting the ideas and commentary out of my head out in a public forum where, over time, with good feedback, it helps me to form a worldview that is increasingly consistent. I suspect that for many other bloggers it is also a primary motivator, even though some of them, knee-deep in AdSense shenanigans, may not realize it.

– I write primarily to express myself
– I write to inform (I guess)

The other reasons, I don’t know – but the reasons are there nonetheless – just can’t wrap my tongue around ‘um at the mo’. But I write. And that’s that.

Well, I’m on a mission to destigmatize the anxiety disorders. Stigma is what keeps people from getting the help they need, because they know how they will be judged, since they have judged others before.

I say enough of it. So I blog for my passions. My spiritual life. and the anti-stigma of anxiety disorders.

As to why I write? I have all kinds of stories all over this house, and probably in houses where I have lived. It’s fun, It’s life giving.