The Huffington Post Complete Guide To Blogging by the Editors of the Huffington Post
Simon & Shuster, 2008 ISBN 13: 978-1-4391-0500-9
x + 230 pgs.
To preface. Although my intention with this humble blog is to focus on Mental Wellness and recovery from "mental illness", it will be helpful for me to say now what this blog will NOT be (at least for the first few dozen posts, anyway.). I am not going to make this into an online diary where I tell of my triumphs and woes daily (or semi-daily). I will interject a helpful experience I've had on occasion, but for now I'm going to focus my attention on reviewing books I've encountered and sometimes find helpful.
During my first year of sobriety, I've gone on a weekly basis to the largest thrift store in Stockton, CA and have started to accumulate a considerable library. I now have covering 1/4th of my living room floor over 300 books I've yet to read. About a 1/3rd of them are in the self-help genre. So at least every other day I'll post a review of what I've read so far...and also books I've gotten from the Library...like the one I'm about to review now.
Actually, it isn't fair to do so right now, since I'm only about halfway through, but what I've read so far has been helpful. I'll go to the news sites like Google News for material if appropriate, and the book recommends that I post often and find my own voice.
My ambitious goal is to get at least 100 people reading this on blogspot & my Facebook page by the end of the year. Then to double it each year until 2015 (or thereabouts) I make it into the Technorati Top 100. Hey, I can dream can't I?
Anyway, I do recommend this book and of course, let me give a mention to the #1 blog on the Technorati Top 100, the Huffington Post. As time permits, I'll be going there more often.
As always,
TJS
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