Social Networks/Blogging and Self-Improvement
Posted by Rhonda Tipton on May 7, 2008
Social networks such as Twitter and blogging in general have many benefits to help with one’s self-improvement. Some of these benefits include goal setting and overall learning.
One of the best things to do to set a goal is to tell people about it and what better place to do that than a blog or Social Network. I am still thinking about my goals, but below are a few examples of people who have posted their goals for the world to see.
- Using Outlook to Help Achieve Your Personal & Business Goals Part I - Misty Khan
- Using Outlook to Help Achieve Your Personal & Business Goals Part II - Misty Khan
- How I am becoming a better developer, part 1 of infinity - Justice Gray
- Being a Better Developer… in 6 months - Bil Simser
- What I’m doing to become a better programmer - IglooCoder
As I said above, I am still thinking about my goals, but I do use Twitter to post when I go to the gym…it a makes me feel accountable, so hopefully, I will do it more.
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Another benefit of blogs and Social Networks is the learning aspect. I follow people on Twitter that I think I will learn from. It is my main reason for using it.
The other day I posted an article showing how to transfer the column headings from a SQL Server query result to Excel. Someone had just shown me how to do it that day, so I thought I would share what I had learned. I had a comment on that blog entry that gave me a much easier way to do the same thing. This is what I mean by learning. I took that knowledge back to the person in which I learned the original way. I also posted another article with the easier way and gave credit where credit was due.
In closing, Blogging and Social Networks allow normal everyday people to learn and achieve goals. I truly believe you do not have to be a professional blogger to reap the benefits.
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Happy learning and goal setting!!!
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