Allright… I just updated my blogroll/links page to include a few more good ones. And now, I’ve got another couple on my radar now. I’ll put ‘em up as I go.
One of the new entries is a blog by Alan Jones, called Doing Words. Alan is a consultant who helps startups find an identity – branding, writing, marketing, strategy, and so on… cool stuff and good work. He found my blog a couple days ago, and we’ve been talking (on twitter) since. We do similar stuff, and thus, we get along.
Earlier today, Alan wrote a piece for his blog (inspired by another blogger’s work), about social media. That we do it (and we follow it) not only for the utility and entertainment, but to define ourselves – to show who we are in a given moment, but also who we evolve to be over months (if not years). A sort of virtual biography that’s reflective, revealing, and most of all, engaging. A pure (and better) form of reality TV… just with more-sane (and actually interesting) people.
It’s a great post (as is the preceding one by Nic), and gives us a lot to think about as we see new-media develop. However, what’s most compelling here, at least for my blog, is the idea of a personal narrative. Taking a blank sheet (whether it be on a twitter, on a blog, or on the next new thing), and writing your identity onto it. Writing quality stuff that goes to the core of who you are (or who your company is), and puts it out there for people to connect with. That’s good content. The type people like to read… the type that creates a solid brand… and the type that startups should write.
That’s the type of writing StartupWriting.com is all about.
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