My main job within various websites for the past few years has been to analyze data. Data that was found within the analytics of visitors, trends and audiences. From this data it was my job to than manipulate or “milk” the website to create more audience and visitors.
In all that backend development and crunching I lost the feel and excitement for content. Nightly I would spend time filtering spam, checking plugin updates, and compatibility issues. Content became something that needed to go up, not something that was exciting for me. I haven’t been excited to sit down and write in a while because it became a job to talk but to talk the way the search engines would read – not how I would write.
RSS Readers or Real World WWW
Recently I’ve spent sometime reading my favorite websites outside the standard RSS feeders and back on the world wide web.
I was, pleasantly, surprised that some of the most creative and entertaining sites were well designed, but designed to catch your eye and then allow the content to do the speaking.
You Don’t Have to Be Best in Class
For the past few years I’ve been so worried about having the best in class in everything I do, I stopped cold-turkey in many of the things I love. Writing to write, taking a photo for the joy and recording podcast for the love of talking to others. I was left learning all the trends for social media, social marketing, analytics and SEO, which benefits me to know but was never my goal when creating my own websites.
September Goals
My goal for September is to create content.
It may end up crappy content but my hope is two fold. 1. Get used to creating more content over directly associating content with SEO or targeted audience. 2. Somewhere in the crap there should be a gem or two.
Podcast will be posted.
Photos taken
Reviews wrote
Miles ridden
Journals filled
Content is Still King
Once I kick this content goal, the next step is creative content. The articles, photos and thoughts I am known for.



















