I'm excited to be back blogging again. Being a blogger, especially about a specific topic, has a really interesting way of changing your perspective. It makes you much more aware of that topic and how things relate to it. Just in the last week I've made a list of nearly a dozen different things I'd like to write about based on things I saw, conversations I had, or other events I experienced.

However this topic of the dead blog is prettty interesting. I tried to do a little research this mornings and nobody seems to agree, but it is believed that there are over 100 Million Blogs! Unfortunately some huge percentage of those blogs are likely dead. (How Many Blogs Are There? Is Someone Still Counting?). I'll define a dead blog as one that hasn't had a post in over 30 days. Of course many are much worse than that.

In the past when I was blogging much more consistently and also speaking about business blogging I would often warn people that the most important thing to think about if they wanted to start a blog was how committed they were to it. Starting a blog is easy, continuing to blog consistently over time is the hard part. What I didn't know then was: For how long? Life changes, circumstances change, we change. So how do you gracefully stop blogging. (Hint: don't do it the way I did).

Knowing what I know now I think the best way to end a blog, or to take a blog break is to have some type of final post that explains the status of the blog. Without that all of the posts you've worked so hard on can lose a lot of credibility when all of a sudden your blog just ends at some date that was months or even years earlier with no explanation.

To combat this in the future, and just to have it in general, I've decided to create a Best of My Blog post. In this post I'll simply have a list of what I believe are my most relevant posts, their title and a link directly to that post. So far I've been amazed at how much I've written about networking in the last few years. That way if I choose to take a break again in the future I'll be armed with a way to quickly add value and then will only need to write a quick explanation as to why I've chosen to not blog for a period of time or permanently.

Well, enough about all of this blog talk, it's time to get back on topic.  Stay tuned for more business networking tips and insights.

Happy Networking!

Scott Ingram
NetworkInAustin.com