Interview and Commentary
Yesterday, we found out that Easton is a SuperHero! He won our hearts with stories of his work at home schedule. He also shared some great comments with us and told the story of the PEZ dispenser — in the comments following the interview. Today we find out what kind of blogger Eastonis and what keeps him blogging.
How has blogging changed who you are as a person? What do you hope you will still learn from it? What so far is your greatest blogging success?
Blogging has made me more courageous and less selfish – not because of the technology, but because of the activities and relationships I’ve experienced along the way. I still hope to figure out how to decide at any given moment, what’s the most important thing to say and who to say it to, and in what way. Now there’s a lifelong pursuit! I think my greatest blogging success so far has been using blogs to benefit people in spite of opportunities to do the opposite.
What was the biggest surprise about blogging? What is the part you most enjoy? What is the part you could live without?
How personal it is. That’s what I love most about blogging, by far. I could live without the technological limitations we still have to deal with – the latency, the bugginess, the complexity under the hood.
What’s the best advice you ever got from a blogger about anything? What advice would you like to pass on?
I’ve gotten one supreme piece of advice from several bloggers, and there are several ways of saying it: Don’t give up. Be persistent. Keep at it. Stick with it. I might boil that down to one word: persevere. Change your strategy as needed, but always strive for a higher level of excellence. There’s never a lack of opportunities, only a lack of vision. So get out there, believe in yourself and your power to change the world, and use the opportunities that come to you and create them where you can’t find any. You can do it. So do it. Do it!
Easton, you are an inspiration and a friend. I feel lucky to have met you. Thank you for this interview. Thank you for being a blogger.
Meet Easton at SOBCon 07 on May 11&12 — Why SOBCon not that Other One. Register now
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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What an inspiration Easton is, as most other SOBCon attendees truly are.
Thank you for highlighting the interview. Easton is correct. Blogging is definitely personal and perseverance is always one of the keys to any endeavor.
I hope you guys can document the SOBCon, or maybe have an online round table discussion after the event to ask the participants what stood out the most for them…
I’m looking forward to seeing the pictures too!
Hi Nicholas,
Easton inspires me too!!
Blog Talk Radio is capturing the entire conference. But I so like your idea about an online round table discussion. Why don’t YOU organize one around what you think it should have in it? Email me.
Vernun of the Good Blogs is working on something tha will put pictures on Successful-Blog throughout the conference while it is happening. WAY COOL!!
Interesting read and interesting chap 🙂
Oh, and P.S. Sooooo gutted I can’t make SOBCon 🙁
Hi Chris!
One interesting chap takes note of another! 🙂
Gosh I wish you were going to be with us at SOBCon to. That would have me so Jazzed. 🙂
Maybe next year 🙂
Next year we’ll make you a speaker or a panelist — then you’ll have to come. 🙂
Ha, DEAL 😉
Thanks Nicholas! Pile it on folks, I can take it. 🙂
I really do appreciate Liz taking the time and making the space available to show pics of me being silly, interspersed with some ruminations on blogging. What’s perhaps most exciting about things like this to me is that they become great ways for us to break down the 0s and 1s a bit and see each other as flesh and blood.
Sad that you won’t be at SOBCon, Chris – I do look forward to meeting you sometime.
SoBCon UK!!!
@Easton – me too 🙂
@Liz – I can think of more exciting locations 🙂
SOBCon Bologna!!
ah perseverance … one of my favorite words in the vocabulary 🙂
an online extravaganza for those of us who cant be there (or rent limos ) 🙂 would be great
GP in Montana
Yes, GP, it’s becoming a great idea. Something like the GREAT SOBCON DEBRIEFING. Do you have suggestions about what it would look like? Maybe take the form of the virtual conference but put on by the attendees?
Thanks for those motivational words Easton!
Sure Tisha!