Trying to Improve Blogging

Learning to blog is a process that like many other skills, develops with practice and experience over time.

Personally, I am beginning to analyze my blogging to make it a more enriched experience for the reader. Check out my most recent posts to my Greenbrier East High School Band Blog . Here you can see the evolution of the blog I post on the most.

At it's earliest incarnation, the band blog was simply about announcements and passing my thoughts to the reader. As the blog has developed though, I have introduced videos, links, and other media which can allow the reader to interact with the blog and have more personal investment in the experience.

As a way to promote my band blog, I have registered it on the Blog Top List site. The theory is that registration on this site will allow people who search for blogs related to my discussion topics to easily find and read my blog. Since it has only been registered recently, data is not yet available as to the effectiveness of this service. I'll post later about my findings in this experiment.

Blogs that I've added to my blogroll

I had the opportunity to check out a couple of blogs of interest today. They seemed pretty cool so now I have them listed in the right hand side menu.

One of them is about music used in games. It has some nice videos embedded of live performances of orchestral arrangements of the music used in several iconic games.

Another is a blog featuring guitar lessons and tutorials. This is a great resource for me as a guitar teacher as well as my students.

Check them out, along with the other links in the menu.

Blogging Lesson

Right now, Rachel, the Globaloria Blogger is giving us a lesson on blogging. She is inspiring me to post on this blog which I've not done in a long time. But...to see an example of the blog I have been working on, check out my Greenbrier East High School Band Blog.

By the way, Rachel if you read this, give me an evaluation of the Band Blog and what you think could make it better.