It was nearly two years back, in
February 2011, I was working on a SharePoint project. We had a special member
in our team, who was very good with SQL but knew very little about SharePoint. As
he was new to the project I had to work with him most of the time to transfer
the knowledge about the domain and technology. When I explain the things,
specially about technical, sometimes he pause me and asked few minutes to take
screen shots and update the things in a particular web page. I just let him do
his task and waited. Since I didn't have started blogging I didn't realize that
he was drafting a blog post with the content we were discussing.
After few days he asked me "Do
you know what am I doing?”. I said "No". Then he explained... I'm
drafting major points to a blog post. Do you know why I'm doing this? I said no…
without even thinking. Because I wanted to know his answer. These are few
points which may help you to understand why blogging is important.
- If we think about this SharePoint project, we have lots of configurations and customizations. We do it today but after few days we probably forget it. If I note it somewhere I can find it easily later when I want it.
- You can keep a note book and write those notes. But surely it will misplace after some time. You can keep documents or note in your computer, but those are also not permanent. But if you write them in a blog it will be there and you can access from everywhere if you have internet.
- In this IT world not only you who meet the same issue you met. So if you publish the answer found by you in the internet then it will help others to make their job easier.
- Also you can improve your written skills.
- When you get matured with writing posts, you might write the most useful and popular things and you will be followed by many people in the industry. It will help you to be in touch with the people.
Yeh...Everything was true. I wanted
to try blogging. I created a blog address for me and was thinking what to
write. Spending lot of time… Finally, I completed the 1st blog post. Wow what a
feeling. You should experience it if you haven't felt it yet. Not only for the
1st post but for the every post I write, I get so motivated, that feeling is
not easy to describe but everyone should feel by themselves.
p.s. Big Thank should goes to Gogula (Who
was mentioned above) for motivating me to start blogging.
