subject: 3 Ways Blogging can help Your Career [print this page] 3 Ways Blogging can help Your Career 3 Ways Blogging can help Your Career
Blogging can help your career in several ways, assuming you do it right. A personal blog typically won't do much. Writing on what you had for breakfast, your cat, and what's on your mind isn't much help. However blogging on an area in your professional area can pay big dividends. You do need to stick to it, write colloquially yet well, and enjoy yourself however for it to work. Here are three ways blogging can help your career.
1) Blogging raises your visibility. People are always googling each other these days, both professionally and personally. Blogs are typically extremely visible in the search engines and a professional blog will represent you well. You will be surprised at how many colleagues find it and comment favorably.
2) If you blog on a topic, even one you know well, will only increase your expertise. The more you blog the more you'll learn, both because you are writing as well as naturally networking with those in your field. You can't help but blog and meet others with the same interests both online and offline.This can only help you.
3) Writing is a critical business skill, and the more you write the better you become at it. Blogging will have you regularly writing and improving. Practice may not make perfect, but it will hone your writing skills.
There are lots of ways blogging can help your career, and we've briefly discussed three of them above. Blogging is something easy to do, and the way to start is simple by reading some blogs in your professional area and perhaps starting to leave comments.
