My first blog: my path towards blogging

As the first blog ever for almost everyone turns out to be a quite boring one, I will be traditional this one time. After almost a year of consideration, worries (does the world want to hear my opinions? Do I have anything interesting to say?etc) and a lot of urge I finally gathered courage to start blogging.

A lot of things happened for the last couple months which served as a catalist for me to take this step, though. First of all I made a decision to write a dissertation on social media. Reading around it made me curious and engaged. I have always believed in a power of word of mouth, and online social media empowered it even more, by allowing one to many communication, yet two-ways.

The next step on my path towards blogging was participating in EuroBlog 2008 conference in Brussels last month, where I met extraordinary and extremely interesting people like David Weinberger, Neville Hobson, Bruno Amaral, Philip Young, Thomas Pleil, David Phillips and many others. I hope one day I will be able to express myself as elegantly and witty as they do.

And of course, my professor, supervisor and mentor, Richard Bailey, has contributed most to boost my self confidence when it comes to writing publically. I will always appreciate it.

And finally, today I have also started twittering. If all great journeys start with one small step, it is definitely my case. How great this journey is going to be remains to be seen