Kathleen: Unique, interesting & expert – spot the odd one out

Friday, 8 September 2006 @ 11:20pm by Kathleen Bright

Am I interesting? Is my blog? Is this article?

Seth Godin wrote an excellent article about how it's more important to be different, than it is to be better, which is just as well because I'm more of a fellow traveller than an expert. Which is to say, I'm exploring topics in which I'm interested and sharing what I learn & experience with you, so we can increase our knowledge together.

It does mean that it's very important for me to think about my Unique Selling Points and to convey this in my writing. What makes my blog unique? What makes my posts unique? Even, what makes me unique?

So far, the main differentiating factor I can readily identify is I'm female + geek + entrepreneur.

Other elements that make me interesting:

creative
intelligent, intellectual, educated
passion, will to succeed
love of learning
addicted to blogs

I believe the combination of all the above make me unique and I hope All Things Bright reflects that. I'm always working on defining & refining the meaning of inspirewithhope.com, it's aims & purposes etc. I'm fairly introspective, which I think is great but meets with varied opinion…

Resources

I wasn't able to release the Glossary as planned earlier this week. I am still working on it, never fear! The main difficulty is that I have so many excellent definitions, but that the aim of the Glossary is not to overwhelm visitors with tonnes of information; the aim is to make everything simple.

So the challenge becomes how to reduce all these wonderful definitions to the essence of what the words mean; it becomes a practice in only selecting the essential complexities requiring simple definitions in the first place. For example, one might not know what RDF is, but do WordPress beginners really need to know? No.

Personal blogging

So concludes this week's personal entries about Kathleen. I hope you enjoyed them. If you did, you'll be pleased to know I'll be writing more personal entries in the future. If not, you'll be pleased to know I resume my regular explorations of entrepreneurship, blogging, marketing etc. on Sunday. Either way, let me know what you thought.

Until next time, ta-ta!