Welcome to the BWAB community.

Like Natural Woman (who does all of the assignments), you have just completed this one and aced it:

Social networking is extremely time consuming. I find when I go back to the basics and concentrate on writing, and reciprocating comments, my passion for blogging doesn’t become diluted.

BTW: I like your current post of how you lost over $10,000.00 blogging. That is funny, and maybe not that far from the truth.

That’s a great idea to use your Twitter account. It also helps to build a community of like minded people.

My Assignment:

“How much time do you spend on social networks?”

1/3 to 1/2 of my blogging activities are related to social networking:
I consider much of that time as “research” for my blog. I make webcomics based on other peoples’ posts. But I have found how easy it is to get distracted and waste time.

“Has social networking helped to gain exposure for your blog?”

Yes, but not in the way I thought it would.

I’m a Stumbler like you (we’re friends) . I’ve discovered that a good Stumble friend is much more valuable than the random stumble traffic. For example; I’m here taking the time to post a comment on your blog because you are my stumble friend. You will likely visit my blog because of this. Your one visit will mean more to me than a 1000 random stumblers blowing by at the speed of light.

“Are those that you follow, reciprocating and visiting and/or commenting on your blog?”

I believe folks that I follow are visiting, but my blog really doesn’t lend itself to a lot of conversation, I make my comic point, and then send readers away to the article being highlighted. Down the road I may do more to elicit conversation.

“Is it time to get back to that which you’re passionate about (writing)?”

After reading your article, I will be more conscious about keeping my social networking productive.

@-Cath Lawson – Thanks for Stumbling my last webcomic!

MonkMojo’s last blog post..how i lost $10,762.51 blogging

You are right about the time it would take to comment on every blog you read. When I first started blogging I tried that but didn’t like it very much.
The last few months I’ve found an other method of attracting people to my blog.
I just love to scout the web for beautiful and unusual art sites which I post on my twitter account ( http://twitter.com/HenkTerHeide ) and slowly but surely the number of people following me and my blog are increasing.

Henk

Henk ter Heide’s last blog post..Beautiful and unusual art sites found on 2008-04-11

You’re welcome.

Happy Blogging!