Tomorrow Was Such a Better Time: Final

It is very easy to make an assumption on the audience in this blog. The main content is meant for James’s friends and people his age. Since it is a diary blog I couldn’t see anyone else, like a college professor or a business person wanting to read his blog.

I sent James an e-mail with three questions. I got an answer about 5 days later. The bold questions are exactly what I asked him and below that is what he exactly wrote.

Why did you decide to make a blog?

I decided to make a blog because one day I was perusing the internet and came across the blog of an old college teacher of mine and it was hilarious. I was promptly motivated to start my own, jumped over to www.blogger.com, and got all signed up. Originally my intentions were to update on a regular basis about whatever random musings were going on in my life, however "regular basis" quickly turned into "once every three weeks". But I fully intend to change that and have been a little more active in the last week or so. Essentially, I just felt that having a forum, such as a blog, to air my thoughts and complaints would be a good thing psychologically... whether anyone read it or not.

Who do you want to reach out too, who do you want your audience to be?

My intended audience would primarily be my friends. A lot of my friends have blogs and we tend to use them as a way to voice our complaints over each other without hurting anyone's feelings; it's almost as if these blogs only exist in some kind of para-normal dimension that doesn't rationally apply to anything we are readily exposed to. Therefore, by being annoyed with my friends in cyber-space, it's as if I'm not really annoyed with them in real-life. Make sense?

Do you know what type of audience you have now?

Well, I assumed that it was just my friend... that is until I started getting emails from students at random Minnesota College’s. But more than anyone else, I think that my principal audience is myself, seeing as how after I post a message I recheck my blog about 18 dozen times to see if anyone has left a comment - but alas, they rarely do. Maybe I'll complain about that in my next post.

My observation was correct. He wrote that the main people who read his blogs were just his friends. At least he wants more than his friends reading it. It is hard to get people to just radically find his blog. A good idea that I have seen is advertising blogs. Some good ways to advertise is showing the link on another webpage they have. I do the same with my own blog, I made a link to it on my main homepage. You could also or write it in your e-mail signature. Anyway to get the link out there will hopefully generate more audiences to your blog.