Always a step behind

One of things I have noticed about some fellow bloggers is that they don’t understand the technology they are using.

I am not a finger pointer… I also struggle with some of the technology I use too.

I understand HTML and Photoshop enough to design my own blog, which I am proud of, but I don’t understand enough to make it look exactly like I envision it.

Things like SEO, meta keywords, and other empty fields in the background of my blog have been a struggle, but lately I’ve been getting more and more comfortable with using them and understanding what it can do.

I’m in this blogging business to write, but to be heard, but I love being heard.

The focus of making sure people hear me is a move to business from hobby that I have dragged my feet on.

So when the Feedburner drama began to happen, I didn’t panic. My wonderful 8 subscribers, I believed, would miss me and come and find me if there was a reason why the emails stopped.

Luckily, I have smart women like MomComm and Kludgy Mom on my Facebook feed, and I’m currently trying out MailChimp for my subscribers.

So, my loyal subscribers, you will be getting an email shortly.

But I have also been pondering the panic that some have exerted at this, and my moment of ‘What the heck will I do?” when I read the comments filling up my Facebook.

So, on top of my other blogging homework I have for myself this weekend, it’s to go out and understand feeds just a little bit more while I’m understanding my MailChimp feed.

Hopefully I did it right, I keep thinking over and over as I hesitate clicking on ‘confirm’.

I should not have.

With so many bloggers adding extra income of other options to their lives, we cannot afford to get so blindsided by this. This is a little like not understanding the office equipment at work- right now the message is not getting out, as small or large as it is.

So I encourage anyone who is a blogger reading this to go learn about something that still befuddles you, whether it’s looking into new RSS feed services or even just a way to make your pictures look a little better.

And please consider taking off that Captcha.