Reading my 2008 archives on afroginthevalley shows an average of about 3 posts per month… I have diversified my posting activity a lot, feeding my twitter, del.icio.us and google shared items streams, but as my friend Sebastien so rightly put it in his resolution post for 2009:
Your blog is your home base. It should be the foundation upon which you build your online presence and your personal brand (…) you should not abandon Twitter (or Friendfeed). They’re great conversation vehicles but you end up with very ephemeral results. You don’t leave much behind. Twitter is an information stream, your blog is your personal mindspace. Make sure you use them both, but use them the right way.
Your blog is your hub. But putting your ideas in writing (and linking) is hard work. I know I need to be cultivating a writing habit. I know authority in networked communication is built on trust and I know trust is built with repeated interactions on an extended period of time. I also know the process from idea to written form is a great way for me to think further.
So I need to write more. I’m tempted to commit to writing once per day but I’m scared I will not be able to meet this commitment. But I must commit to move forward. So be it. I’m booking all my lunches in January to write one blog post per business day. We’ll see how it goes and what comes out of it…