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I Think I Went Over the Edge

By on May 5, 2009 in Journal

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am officially crazy. Yes!

That is all….

No I’m just kidding but that’s not to say what goes threw my head and what I do isn’t beyond normal. So in the last couple months while trying to take steps forward, I have probably managed to step back. Last October I started off with one blog, The Bushman, it was going to be my personal blog and so it will be. Sometime in February I came up with the marvelous idea of starting a new blog about something more direct. Something that would bring in traffic for one general thing; rather than stuff from every end of the spectrum. CanLiving was born a month later, My Canadian Living Blog. The blog is about things I do on a day to day bases, my experiences, etc. That site is slow coming but it is slowly shaping and I see a good future for it.

That would bring us to mid April, when I registered the domain ykonline.ca. I don’t even remember why I registered it. When it only cast $9 to register a domain I don’t hesitate very often as that is cheaper than a meal out these days. I continued on blogging at my 2 blogs, more frequently at The Bushman and even more specifically blogging about Yellowknife. I noticed that I took to writing about this place I call home, whether about local companies online or my opinion on that weeks Yellowknifer. What I have always wanted to do is make a blog the best it can be, so I saw an opportunity to make something. The other day I installed a fresh version of WordPress under YkOnline and imported all my “Yellowknife” related posts onto it.

The Plan

CanLiving will stay the same it will not change. It will continue to grow and unfold. Watch out for more Kooking with Kyle

YK Online will be where I write about anything Yellowknife. A Pretty simple concept. There will be reviews, pictures, opinions. You could even be on there if you wanted. There is no real plan for this blog, I will just keep doing what I was doing before and let it take me where ever. The interesting part will be when I go to school in the fall, I haven’t quite figured out what will happen to it then. We will cross that bridge when we get there.

The Bushman will be more me again. What I’m working on, what I’m thinking about, what is bothering me. Personal stuff. Simple as that.

Okay now you can tell me I am crazy. Its ok I can take it. We’re all searching for something, this is just how I do it.

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Lets Get a Intro: Follow Up

By on March 20, 2009 in Social Media/Internet

Clare made an interesting point when he commented on Lets Get a Intro. He said that He likes to post at least 2 posts every 3 days but lately has been able to post more, so I thought it would be an excellent time to go deeper into scheduling post times.

If you do decide to schedule you posts, say 2 a week. That’s excellent, especially when you are having a hard time coming up with ideas for new material. The pressure is on the, deadline is approaching and you are able to get something done because of it. But lets look at the other end of the spectrum; you are writing more than 2 posts a week what are your options.

1. You could publish those posts as soon as you finish writing them.
Pro: Gives you reader’s new material quicker, they become more interested with you blog.  Your followers grow as your style is established quicker.
Cons: Your readers start to expect the same amount of entries from you all the time. Your quality of writing goes down because of the rate your posting. Posts become unexpected and even unwanted because of conflicting scheduling.

2. Don’t publish right away. Publish it on the next empty publishing date
Pros: You are consistent about when entries are published. Readers know when there will be new content from them to read. Your posts become strong because they don’t need to be published right away. You are able to edit them a day or 2 later and make changes you other wise wouldn’t have.
Cons: You forget what will be published on that day. As you get more popular your readers want more. You over analyze posts and make them to reporter like instead of your own opinion.

I’m sure there are many more we could list here, but I’m sitting in the middle of a field trying to get internet so this post con publish tomorrow morning.
Just to let everyone know that I don’t even take my own advice, I don’t schedule posts on The Bushman because it is a more personal blog. Made up of what ever comes to mind at the time. When or if I ever get this project of mine rolling I will defiantly schedule posts, especially considering I will be going to school in the fall.

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This Site is a self made Mess

By on February 26, 2009 in Journal

Well I fail and this is now a mess.

I’m trying to accomplish too much I forget to do what I started with. I’m trying hard to find my niche and but I can’t seem to get it to click and it is preventing me from doing the things I started out with. When I originally start The Bushman it was going to be my personal blog about my life and adventures I encountered. So for the first couple month that was all well and good, I would have the odd topical post that would drive up my traffic like the Ice Thickness Chart but other than that my followers were just friends and family that knew me.

But then my imagination got the best of me, I started exploring the blogging world more and more, and got hooked. My idea for a blog changed, or maybe not so much changed but I saw two possibilities rather than one. I wanted to keep my personal blog going but also wanted to write a blog that was topical and I would write about my niche (which I still don’t have). So the first thing I thought of was and probably still is a simpler and better idea, was writing two separate blogs. I have a bunch of domains already and registering one is only 10$ a year so that wasn’t the thing that stopped me. I actually started to try that with my iTalkout domain. If you go over there you can even still see it….. The thing that made me just use one blog was the fact that The Bushman was already out there and established. I have it register with Technorati, Blogger and many others, have a Google sitemap set up, SEO intact with the blog and some people were already following it, so I initially it would just be easier to go with The Bushman. As I looked back on it now, it would have probably been just as easy to start a new blog and market it.

Lets move on to my niche, (A Niche being the topic I write about and am passionate about) if you look at iTalkout it is directed towards a Canadian Living. Let me explain how I got to that and my many other niches I tried.  You can all take a guess that I like the internet and technology, so one of the topical ideas I considered was a blog about whats happening in the world of the internet. Like Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc. like some of the things I have on The Bushman currently. But lets face it I don’t have the in’s to all the news when it happens to be able to blog about it quick enough for people to care for it and with me being so far away from where there is more of a tech population it just didn’t seem possible. My next idea was definitely more local, I wanted to write a blog to students and eventually get some of them to write posts. A blog with tips and tricks for students, where questioned would be answered and advice would be give, as well news from school would be posted. But with the all the social networking sites out there like Nexopia, MySpace and Facebook I would have to really work hard to try and make it appealing to students. Its funny as I write this I think of new ideas for that site and think it might just be possible, so I wont scratch that off the list yet.  I don’t remember if this next idea was before or after the students idea but it was a more broad idea. I wanted to write a blog about Yellowknife, not so much about the History of Yellowknife but more the happenings of Yellowknife. I have looked for a site such as this but have yet to find one. I find Yellowknife is still a victim of static websites or the original web, so by making this site would be a way to try and show that the web is now very interactive. I also had a personal goal with this idea which was to get more involved with the community. If I was going to run a site about Yk I would need to be out there to be able to write about it. The only thing that stopped me from doing this was the fact that at the same time I came up with that idea, I was applying for school which would take me out of Yellowknife. Knowing the possibility of leaving Yellowknife I had to broaden my idea to the entire of Canada. So that’s where My Canadian Living came from, I would write about things I encountered while living my life. This would be an excellent topic to full fill my life goal of working online while living out of my truck, driving across Canada. The reason I don’t think I could do this topic is that I am still too young and do not have the experience to be able to write to the fullest.

So now its your turn. You have read my blog and some of you know me personally. What do you think I would write about best? Think about what and how I currently write and think about who I am as a person. Then leave a comment below. Thank you.

So because I have tried to pull off doing two different types of blogs on one site it became a mess, at least I think. It is slightly confusing because only my “journal” category posts go to the blog page therefor making it difficult to find the topical posts. I also have that shop page but that is just for kicks. I wanted to make a Bushman shirt and then I ended up setting up a free online shop, I think I’m going to get rid of that. I also don’t think the recipe page goes with the site when I write about technology…hmm. Like above tell me your thoughts.

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