Reasons for blog creation & blog managing

[Geonz]

I like the ongoing nature of a blog - and have kept mine up 'cause there are people who read it I keep telling myself that if I were more consistent with my educational blog, people would read that too, but it hasn't happened yet.
I also like setting up a Google automatic search for terms, which is how my blog got found its first day and got a comment (totally floored me!). When I was shopping for a Dahon I put that in and then added Xtracycle. So now I get a couple links a day to people who've said that in a blog somehwere, so I can return the favor of saying "hi! you go dude!" from out of the blue.

[SouthernBelle]

I started mine as a record of my cycling all in one place that I could refer to later.

My little cycling history.

There are 2 or 3 people that cycle from places other than TE that read it to keep up with me and I read theirs.

[Kimmyt]

As a way that my family can stay informed of what I'm doing. And also so I don't bore people by droning on and on about training. If they want to read it, they can, if not... shrug. It's also a good way to be accountable. I used to find writing really therapeutic as well, but haven't had enough free time to really get back into it with my blog.

[OakLeaf]

Mostly DH and I just post links to news stories that we want to make sure our friends see. Once in a great while we'll post some commentary.

[kelownagirl]

I have had a couple of blogs which I started as a record of my thoughts and experiences in weight loss at first, then cycling, and now triathlon training. Sometimes when someone would ask me about something I had already blogged about, I would just point them to the blog. Eventually, people started reading it. It's not important to me that people read it because it's mainly for my me, but it's nice to get comments once in awhile. I would imagine that to most people, my blog is just a boring commentary about my training (my family says so, lol), but I guess if you're in a similar situation, it's nice to see someone's else's experiences. I enjoy reading people's blogs and keep up with a number of them.

[mimitabby]

I saw no good reason to have a blog until i saw how handy they were for displaying art. An easy interface and a nice format.

And because of the way the blogs are set up, you might have visitors unexpectedly.


http://mimitabby.blogspot.com

[Sheesh]

I started blogging because my students were blogging. It was a good way to keep up on the goings-on in their lives, and because they started visiting my blog, I was able to advertise events and programs that I wanted them to know about.

Then, as those students graduated, I kept blogging as a way of staying in touch with them, and others in the cyber world.

I recently started a new blog that I'll use for commenting on other cycling blogs and for pimping out the photos that I take at local races. I didn't want to widely share my other blog, so I started a new one.

velosnaps.wordpress.com