The Blogiverse is Your Oyster
I was thinking back this morning to my first experiences with blogging. I was all fresh-faced, and starry-eyed and my mind was constantly racing with ideas for my new blog. What an exciting time! I had so much fun deciding on a theme. Theme driven blogs are often so much more interesting than general family “catch-up” blogs, but even those can be fun if they are written well.
I’ve always been a bit of a gadget-hound and a tech-fiend, so I wanted to somehow incorporate those themes into my blog. But I also happen to be a homeschooling parent, so I considered different angles of homeschooling for my blog as well. I have to admit, I’ve read some fairly dull technology blogs, and some even more ho-hum homeschooling ones. Even as a newbie, I knew that writing about the latest Vista update or highlighting our spelling activities from the current day would be the kiss of death for my burgeoning blog. I was determined not to kill my poor little blog before it even hatched!
The Blog Writing Course was so great in guiding me through the theme-choosing process. If left to myself, I might have ended up writing a blog about my love of chocolate, or my obsessions with song lyrics, but fortunately for the internet public at large, the blogging course steered me away from such “scintillating” topics. I finally settled on the creative and sometimes humorous ways that technology tends to integrate itself into and wreak havoc on every aspect of our family life - - including our homeschool! And thus, Topsy-Techie was born.
My theme has served me well, because it fits my personality and there are always plenty of technotronic hijinks going on in the Topsy-Techie household. No lack of blogging material! But although my blog theme is somewhat unique, I am always amazed at the diversity of blog themes that are out there! Have you seen any of these??
- TheDigitalNews.Tv - all digital television news…all the time
- Girls Fastpitch Softball - putting no limits on the love of an individual sport
- Sustainablog - blogging a greener world
- Vegan Ice Cream Paradise - didn’t think there were enough vegan ice cream recipes to sustain a blog about them, did you??
This short list is just a sampling of the incredibly eclectic possibilities for a blog theme. I hope they whet your appetite for the unique possibilities that are yours for the taking. The only limits to what you could blog about are your own creativity. What do you have to contribute to the blogiverse? What are you passionate about? Let me know in the comments section below, and then sign up for the free Blog Writing Course so you can turn your idea into the blog the world has been waiting for!
