The Trust 30 Challenge – Improve your blogging

Last week I was fortunate enough to be asked by GFI Max to deliver a webinar to over 200 IT companies on my thoughts for using Social Networking in Business (If you missed the live webinar, it’s now available to view again at the MSP Business Management web-site).

There were a flood of really interesting questions from the participants, but none more so than around the topic of blogging.

I suggested that the benefit of blogging to me was less about reaching lots of people with my message, but more about me growing better at delivering my message. By learning how to positively express my thoughts and ideas through blog articles, I feel I have become a better boss, a better public speaker, a better salesmen and perhaps even a better party guest!

As Seth Godin puts it

As Seth Godin puts it in this brilliant video with Tom Peters, “If you’re good at it (blogging) then people will start reading it. If you’re not good at it, then stick with it and you’ll get good at it”.

This thought apparently struck a chord with a number of people who attended the webinar who wrote to me to say they’d been sitting on the fence with regards to blogging, but were now thinking again about getting started.

The response that brought the biggest smile to my face was from AstoldbyGel who was inspired enough by our webinar to start blog writing, and posted this blog post to explain why.

Nothing to write about?

But I received many more e-mails saying that whilst they could see the benefits of blogging, they felt they had nothing to write about, or that they couldn’t see how they’d find the time to write. I understand, because I’ve been there too.

If you’re one of those people, then serendipity strikes – check out #Trust30.

“#Trust30 is an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Use this as an opportunity to reflect on your now, and to create direction for your future. 30 prompts from inspiring thought-leaders will guide you on your writing journey.”

The #Trust30 initiative is brought to you by The Domino Project and features a “Pledge” that I think will help get those people who wrote to me about hesitating to blog, get started.

The Pledge Details

1. The #Trust30 challenge starts at 6am ET on May 31st and runs for 30 days.
2. Each day we’ll post a prompt from an original thinker and doer on RalphWaldoEmerson.me. You can also sign-up for daily emails.
3. Fill out the short form here to commit to participating in the #trust30 online initiative.
4. Blog, journal, or create something on each of the 30 days.
5. Tweet using the hashtag #trust30 to show your support and involvement.

I’ve signed up to #Trust30, and I’ll be doing my best to generate as many new blog articles in the next 30 days as is possible.

I hope you’ll join me in doing the same! If you do so, please let me know so I can let others know about your work!

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