Comments on: Why Blogging is Like The Wizard of Oz and There’s No Place Like Home. A Polemic or Maybe a Manifesto. For all the Red Shoe Bloggers.

By: Anderson Bode

Anderson Bode — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:02:30 +0000

I always say that to succeed in the internet, your post should either be useful or entertaining. This post passed that test! Thanks.

By: Carlos Velez

Carlos Velez — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:54:44 +0000

I could make some ruby red slippers looks sexy. thanks, great post.

By: ecommerce73

ecommerce73 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:45:29 +0000

What a post!!thanks a ton.Liked the way you presented your point.Without planning it’s difficult to succeed.I have bookmarked this page for future requirement.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:22:48 +0000

Loved, loved, loved this. What a fun post. “Red-shoe bloggers.” Love it. (BTW, I don’t have any red shoes I can spare; I only have one pair that I purposely had dyed to match a dress I only wore twice because then I got pregnant with my fourth child at the age of 39 and somehow the body has not come all the way back but I am holding on to those shoes JUST IN CASE.)

Again, just a totally fun, and true, post.

Anne @alivenkickin

By: Ciprian Rusen

Ciprian Rusen — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:37:04 +0000

I would say just:
“The home address of success is passion.”

If you are passionate about something it’s because you love doing it and have a talent for it. If you’ve got passion you create, contribute, collaborated with similar minded people.
If you’ve got passion and create something, you will start conversations and you will gather your own community.

For me, it comes only to this: “The home address of success is passion.”

By: Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:08:57 +0000

Kelly,
You are TOTALLY a Red Shoe Blogger. This is where fantasy meets truth and passion is the fuel which feeds our souls. Bloggers like you feed your readers – you infuse them with inspiration because your writing is alive and carrys the promise of truth, not just keyword repition.
It doesn’t hurt that red happens to be my favorite color, so I already know Dorothy had great taste!

By: Jo Guerra

Jo Guerra — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:01:43 +0000

Loved it and just shared it with someone on LinkedIn Answers that was wondering why no one was buying his new product. Yes, I agree with the one person that said it was quirky and you interpreted this as creative – way creative writing in my opinion. I have been writing my new blog from passion – not enough attention to strategic keywords. However I’ve noticed that my old blogs still get a lot of hits because I optimized them for keywords. I did not stuff the entries with keywords, just used perhaps one or two that had low competition and and received a lot of hits on Wordtracker. So, perhaps a combination of passion and a bit of keyword selection is better for me anyway – although I prefer writing from the heart.

By: Kat Weitzel

Kat Weitzel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:56:30 +0000

Thank you for posting this. It makes me feel like if I really care about something and spend the time researching and blogging… pouring my heart into something that I’m passionate about that somebody does care if it is a real person behind the curtain. I wasn’t sure if anyone noticed anymore. Muah. Kat

By: umar

umar — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:16:19 +0000

First time listen about these

By: Leah Rubin

Leah Rubin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:19:31 +0000

You know, you really know how to ferret out that kernel of grit that creates the pearl– you write with a depth and an understand that astound me. I love this, and not only because I totally agree with it, but because you want to get everyone to do better. (Karmically, not monetarily.)

Loved it.

By: J. Money

J. Money — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:16:02 +0000

I just wanted to say that I totally love your style here. So refreshing!!!

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:33:26 +0000

So… what exactly was your point? Nothing you’ve written above is even half as magical as the REAL wizard of oz. So are you borrowing someone else’s ideas to do what exactly? Write prettily? Tell us to promote the hell out of something so as NOT to make any money, but just feel like we are “home” because we have a big ol platform called our blog to spew from?? Huh?

I am really really really really tired of bloggers thinking that the medium IS the message. But they aren’t. Without a message blogs suck. Worse – they are a BORE. You can have really cute metaphors all you want but without any depth or meaning or something NEW there is no there there. (PS Another writer’s work you might consider glomming off of.)

You sound like a nice person. You pick out pretty words. But one of these days I hope we find some substance somewhere, oh please oh please oh please!!

I’ve read about Dorothy and you are No Dorothy! L. Frank is rolling in his grave.

By: Spokane Carpet Cleaning

Spokane Carpet Cleaning — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:32:22 +0000

Sometimes we just need to get home to start the journey all over again. I love the analogies here.
Sam

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:41:30 +0000

So true…it is all about passion and keeping at it. It will pay off, all hard work does!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:09:31 +0000

Wizard of Oz has long been one of my favourite modern fables. The most powerful part of the story for me is the fact that not until the various yellow brick road walking companions form a little community are they able to start solving each other problems. We tend to be rather blind to our own strengths and of course the biggest lesson of all if we need to look further than our own backyard for our blogging home well then we’ve got no real need to hit the yellow brick road in the first place.

By: hokya

hokya — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:28:03 +0000

however, individual blogs may ever “out of topic” about they main idea

By: Kelly Diels

Kelly Diels — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:34:45 +0000

@y’all. I want to make money too. I’m figuring out business models as we speak. I just want to marry The Purpose with The Cash. I don’t think it has to be one or the other but it seems like bloggers are in one camp or the other. How about we do both? Have fantastic, amazing, breath-taking, creative content AND market and monetize the flying monkeys out of it?

By: Carma Spence-Pothitt

Carma Spence-Pothitt — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:03:07 +0000

Love this post! Not only was it a joy to read with all the wonderful playing around with words, but it was informative and inspiring. I now so much want to be a Red Shoe Blogger that I can feel it welling up in my soul. It makes me want to join the Lolly Pop Guild. It makes me want to grab a basket and put a dog in it! It makes me … oh, well, you get the picture. ;-)

By: Jan Middleton

Jan Middleton — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:20:17 +0000

Excellent way to give us your artistic views on Dorothy and her story. You went around the block with your opinion on The Wizard of Oz and I, thoroughly mezmerized, went with you. Do I totally agree with all of it? Nah, but you blow me away with your talent.

Do I totally agree with your on the parallels of Dorothy and marketing? Yes.

Really brill, Jan

By: jennifer888 @ Negotiation Board

jennifer888 @ Negotiation Board — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:35:29 +0000

Kelly, Iove your voice! The story you told was great!

Although I do disagree with you on one major point. I don’t think it is wrong to provide your readers with something great while trying to make money at the same time. The idea that you want nothing for providing something of value is a little too idealistic for me personally.