Comments on: A Blogging Identity Crisis http://www.multitaskingmommy.com/2010/02/blogging-identity-crisis/ A Boston career mom's adventures in stay-at-home mommyhood Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sheena http://www.multitaskingmommy.com/2010/02/blogging-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Sheena Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:44:47 +0000 http://www.multitaskingmommy.com/?p=487#comment-434 What you can do is maybe stream the MTM feed on the sidebar of MFS and vice versa. I just went through a blogging identity crisis and it resulted in me leaving my "popular" parenting blog for my personal blog. I couldn't take it anymore because I felt like I couldn't be myself. I was hindering my success by hiding. Showing your personality is always good. Go with your gut and good things will happen! What you can do is maybe stream the MTM feed on the sidebar of MFS and vice versa.

I just went through a blogging identity crisis and it resulted in me leaving my “popular” parenting blog for my personal blog. I couldn’t take it anymore because I felt like I couldn’t be myself. I was hindering my success by hiding. Showing your personality is always good. Go with your gut and good things will happen!

]]> By: AlyGatr http://www.multitaskingmommy.com/2010/02/blogging-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-430 AlyGatr Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:40:38 +0000 http://www.multitaskingmommy.com/?p=487#comment-430 Wow, it must be in the water! I blogged about my own identity crisis...well maybe of a more encompassing nature, but my blog and where to go with it was a big part of that. I'm grappling with keeping my personal blog and just building separate categories for the different things I wanted to discuss...but then I worry about trying to cover too much...but I'm afraid to start an all new blog and having to build readership all over again. UGH!!! Wow, it must be in the water! I blogged about my own identity crisis…well maybe of a more encompassing nature, but my blog and where to go with it was a big part of that. I’m grappling with keeping my personal blog and just building separate categories for the different things I wanted to discuss…but then I worry about trying to cover too much…but I’m afraid to start an all new blog and having to build readership all over again. UGH!!!

]]> By: Boston Mamas http://www.multitaskingmommy.com/2010/02/blogging-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Boston Mamas Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:13:16 +0000 http://www.multitaskingmommy.com/?p=487#comment-429 Hmm... I would follow your instinct (trite, I know, but it works for me) but IMO, MFS seems clearly delegated to product things but here, by virtue of your name, it can be whatever you want. Maybe building out a separate fitness category would help. Another option is starting a new blog entirely. This is what I did with PopDiscourse.com which truly is my personal blog. I don't care about the metrics (actually, I don't really look at metrics at Boston Mamas either...) and it's purely my outlet, for all things random and interesting to me. It's extremely liberating! At some point I realized I was writing less about pop culture (my original intent) and more about personal things, but then I decided I didn't really care. Using comments as a barometer, people seem more interested in my personal ramblings than pop analysis anyway! -Christine Hmm… I would follow your instinct (trite, I know, but it works for me) but IMO, MFS seems clearly delegated to product things but here, by virtue of your name, it can be whatever you want. Maybe building out a separate fitness category would help.

Another option is starting a new blog entirely. This is what I did with PopDiscourse.com which truly is my personal blog. I don’t care about the metrics (actually, I don’t really look at metrics at Boston Mamas either…) and it’s purely my outlet, for all things random and interesting to me. It’s extremely liberating! At some point I realized I was writing less about pop culture (my original intent) and more about personal things, but then I decided I didn’t really care. Using comments as a barometer, people seem more interested in my personal ramblings than pop analysis anyway!

-Christine

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