My journey in blogging started when I saw a great blog of a friend.  A week later I attended an event on Internet Marketing that further pushed me to experiment with www.wordpress.org. Subsequently I got my son “Nipun” interested and since then there has been no looking back.   Today I complete “13”  months and “1” day of Blogging.

Blogging has opened up people journalism to the masses, now instead of reading news created by trained journalist; you can create news, tips and share your ideas with masses.  www.Wordpress.org has given us the tools to do so; a free web site that requires no designing, formatting or hardcore programming.  If you could invest an hour on wordpress you could be up and running with your first Blog.

Why create a Blog?  What is the benefit?   My answer would be just go ahead create one and the benefits are many.

1. Your blog is your digital identity.
2. Every one of us has a talent, latent or erupting. Blogging is an ideal platform to script and share your Talent.
3. The habit of writing will help you pen down your ideas and track them over a period of time.
4. Blog title and content connects you with like minded people.
5. Blog builds your expert status.
6. Blogging could be the beginning of your dream to write a book.
7. Blogging makes you think proactively, because any writing requires thinking and creating.
8. Blogging translate your ideas into the written word which many would find a big challenge.
9. Blogging improves your language and vocabulary. 
10. Your blog is your body of knowledge.
11. Blogging helps you write and invite critics and receive free feedback on your ideas.
12. Blog is a repository of your content accessible from any place and a platform to point your followers, friends and prospects to the content reflecting expertise. 
13. Blogging does not have to be text.  It could include digital photographs or videos as well.  So if you’re a keen photographer publish your photos on a blog.
14. Blog is your content and reflection of your expertise.  It works 24x7
15. Blog content can help attract awareness to your cause.  After all published data carries the power of persuasion.

Blogging is a new wave of thinking.  It’s power in the hands of people who value power. So go ahead visit www.wordpress.org and create your first Blog, and embark on a digital journey with your thinking, writing and creative skills