Mentioning my fall off the second page of top blogs on Onestopblogs in my post How I Became Sandy MacManus led to the serious navel fluff examination that became this similar post – musings that were reinforced by the fact that nobody seemed interested in whether I was really Sandy or not!
When the TEFL blogging boom happened a year or so after I started TEFLtastic I wrote some very presumptuous pieces telling people how to blog successfully (see links below), but now at last I really can teach TEFL bloggers something – don’t do what I did! And my big mistake was:
Avoiding Twitter.
Having a blog that veers around wildly in topic and no longer commenting on other people’s blogs probably doesn’t help either, but I’m pretty sure not Twattering is the big one.
Ain’t gonna make me change, but if you don’t want to end up where I am, you have no choice but to sign up for that Satanic service.
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You’ve identified the problem, Alex, now go and resolve it. Email me if you want to have a chat about how to make it work for you without it consuming too much of your time.
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Not exactly that (unsurprisingly), but email coming your way
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I think you’re immensely relevant for the vast majority of English language teachers the world over. Most of us don’t have the time or energy to be endlessly tweeting and musing about web 2.0, we actually have students to teach, families to bring up, other interests in life. The materials you come up with are really useful and inspiring and the articles you produce have just the right balance of humour, irony and information. Thanks.
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Thanks Emma, very nice of you. Don’t think I was fishing for compliments there, but if that was the effect I might try it more often!
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I’ve followed your blog for years Alex precisely because you’ve mastered the art of the long form rather than bleating a constant stream of self-aggrandising nonsense. I wish a few more people would get off twitter, sit down and actually think for themselves about what it is they’re trying to say.
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