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By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:43:33 +0000

My story is not nearly as cool as yours…

My first ‘blog’ was a livejournal. I just went back and looked… I created it on September 11 2003, inspired by my online friends in the poetry world. A bunch of us had been on ezboard and bbb forums whipping poetry back and forth for years. Some of those friends were on livejournal. I created my first blog on Blogger around that same time (2004 I believe, although that blog is no longer online).

I just went back and looked through the old posts… and though my livejournal name was tryin2evolv (seriously!) it looks like I haven’t changed *all* that much. As a matter of fact, my first post on livejournal was titled “Beginnings and stuff” — and it isn’t so different from one of my more current posts called “Beginnings and endings”. Though the posts were about different things, it’s a concept I write a lot about… apparently because I’m better at beginning things than I am at following through.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

By: Rosa Say

Rosa Say — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:28:38 +0000

Aloha Terry, it wasn’t a single post for me, but I do know who and when (though I can’t remember how I found him): Scott Hodge, July 2004. I was blogging a month later.
Scott back then:
http://happyweeble.blogspot.com/
Scott today:
http://www.scotthodge.typepad.com/

Whatever I have since done online since then; blame Scott!
(I love you Scott

By: Jackie Cameron

Jackie Cameron — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:43:57 +0000

I met a guy who was a coach on the same programme as me. I sent him my electronic newsletter by e-mail. He said he had a great idea about how I could reach more people and he would share if I bought him coffee. He has a design company and put together my website with blog as an experiment. I was not really convinced but gave it a go . Baby steps at first and now just past my 2nd blogbirthday. Twitter is a logical and fun add on for me. I can’t imagine not being connected in this way now.

By: Arnie McKinnis

Arnie McKinnis — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:01:01 +0000

Terry – in 2001 we started looking into the evolution of the “internet” from a global phenomenon to a local one. At that time, blogs were just starting to gain some traction – Blogger was out there as an online service, but most were “downloads” that you ran on your own site.

The site we were developing never too off, but what stuck with me was blogging – and how people could just throw anything out there, for the world to read.

I blogged some then, but didn’t really get into it until a few years later. I felt “stifled” by my day job and wanted a more creative outlet for my thoughts and opinions. So, I went back to my blogger account, and began posting again.

So, there wasn’t a defining moment, more of an evolution of my thinking.

By: Luke Gedeon

Luke Gedeon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:20:19 +0000

That was so many years ago I honestly cannot remember. I lost a lot of my early posts so I am not even sure when I started.

It did not even occur to me that I might care back then. The funny thing is that most things since then have been well documented.

By: VickyH

VickyH — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:10:40 +0000

It was a massive group of people. The entire conference at SOBCon08, when I saw how energetic, genuine, and committed they all were about their blogs, I knew this was the medium I wanted to use.

Twitter, was different, @CoolCatTeacher asked me to sign up, asked ppl to say hi to me… SLow at first, then when I signed up for SOBCon I added all those people and now I have a great group of friends that are priceless.

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:17:56 +0000

Oops time frame memory blip. It was 8/24/07 that was near death date. Don’t know why I didn’t tweet between June & September. BUT, I remembered how I learned about Twitter. SO’s daughter started twittering her blog and I asked her what “twittering” meant. How many wish that never happened? Raise your hands? lol

By: Grace

Grace — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:06:56 +0000

I have memory issues. Can’t remember how I learned about twitter. But began blogging passionately in September out of anger to the world for lack of knowledge, compassion, or openness to change–to save children!

First tweet was 6/24 then jumped to 9/2 cuz had 3 surgeries between those dates. My blog also started early Sept cuz 8/24 was my near-death date. Maybe that inspired me to do something with my life.

What inspired me about Twitter was its acceptance of me and my issues and my cause and just caring people everywhere doing good things for each other. Probably not the answer you were looking for but I have been greatly inspired by many tweets.

By: Posts about Web 2.0 as of December 18, 2008 | The Lessnau Lounge

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