Why I'm Going to Blog

I'm dedicating this blog post to my friend Bryan who has been urging me to blog for quite some time now. So Bryan, here's hoping that I'll live up to your musings.

Today in class, Editor in Chief Mara Shalhoup and Food & Drink Editor Besha Rodell from Creative Loafing gave advice about how our class, as magazine students, could break into the industry and get editors to give us one of those ever coveted Jobs.

Major skills I need to possess by the time I graduate:

1) Have intelligent, preferably witty conversation with the public using different types of social media tools while promoting magazine I'm working for

2) Be able to come up with great story ideas

3) Have a speciality of interest that I'm an expert on

4) Have several different kinds of skills (New Media/computer skills, copyediting skills, etc.)

Basically, I need to be awesome.

They also looked really favorably on blogging. Besha even said she preferred looking at blogs to see writing style and personality versus looking through clips and resumes when hiring interns and freelancers. So, I've decided to revitalize my old new media blog, where I posted interesting new media technologies each week. But I also want to add sections about books, films and probably anything else that strikes my fancy.

Blogging Goals:

1) Develop a personality for my blog

2) Find what topics I'm interested in writing about

3) Write wittier

Cheers!

P.S. My fourth blogging goal is to come up with a wittier signoff. I'm thinking something along the lines of "Good night and good luck" or "Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered."...something like that.