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Ireland a "Different Perspective"

  • 12-11-2009 4:46pm
    #1
    tapo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭


    I have begun to write about my most recent experiences of being unemployed in Ireland.
    Check them out on www.irelandadifferentperspective.blogspot.com

    would be interested to hear your thoughts

    j


Comments

  • #2
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Hmm... signing up just to pimp your blog is not going to win you many friends. Could you at least make some token effort to contribute to the forum or at least tell us why, of the millions of blogs out there, we should read yours?


  • #3
    tapo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭tapo


    There are 450,000 people unemployed in this country and I was one of them until very recently , so I feel it is very relevant.

    It may help just one person through the current turmoil

    Have you ever been unemployed???

    But I also take your point


  • #4
    Dulwichmum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Dulwichmum


    Hi Tapo,

    I have just joined this forum too. In my experience, blog posts work best when you try to keep within 400 words. Short snappy paragraphs with no more than 2 sentences. Long passages do not work at all well, people will switch off and click out.

    If you want to build up a readership, you need to find blogs you like, perhaps with a similar theme. Leave a comment and ask for a link. Get yourself a blog roll and link to blogs you like. A site meter is a good plan too, you will find out some information about where your traffic is coming from and you may find some people who are lurking and you can link to them? Sometimes people are shy to comment, considering your blog as your personal space.

    Images are good too.

    Best wishes,

    Bea


  • #5
    tapo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭tapo


    Bea, Thank you for your kind words of encouragement

    J


  • #6
    Grievous
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Grievous


    Is the blog creative writing or reporting?

    I do love orwell's down and out in paris and london. He made that like a story.


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  • #7
    tapo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭tapo


    Check it out , its just my thoughts on the nation and my feelings on life

    I certainly want it to be creative , but i am striving for feedback


  • #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I'm not much of a blog reader but I really enjoyed some of your posts, particuarly the one about the graveyard in Letterfrack but also the airport observations. I'm a bit sick of reading open letters to the government though, so I kind of skipped through the most recent post.

    There doesn't seem to be a single consistent theme, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.


  • #9
    tapo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭tapo


    Pickarooney ,

    Thank you for your feedback. Yes you are correct there is no real theme to the blog. It is formed by my rambling brain

    I do have to produce a weekly column for the newspaper, but they have given me free rein pretty much

    Keep reading, should be something there for everyone as time goes on


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