If You Have a Blog... [View all]

Someone I greatly respect told me last fall that having a Facebook page is tenuous, because Facebook can change the algorithm and all of a sudden, it no longer shows up in someone's feed. So, I started a blog. I really like my blog; I like writing to my blog, even though it may take several hours to do all of the research to make it meaningful. I think I have a lot to say, and some of it is interesting. It's also the point of view of an older middle-class educated black woman, and not everyone hears that point of view, so it has value. With a full-time job, I can only write once a week, but I've been consistent.

I'd love to have a wider audience. I think I have 12 followers. I'm not trying to make money from it, I'm not going for tens of thousands of followers. But I'd love to make a name for myself. I think it would be fun.

If you have your own blog, I'd love to know how you get followers.

Lauren

https://afrobougieblues.com/blogs/

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I'd also love some blog ideas.

Over the past 9 months, I've written about a wide variety of things in my blog:
- the March on Washington
- Black Superheroes
- How our values determine salaries
- Hip-hop turns 50
- Henrietta Lacks and Medical Research
- Midwest Conservatism
- Product Safety
- A Son in Prison
- Abortion
- Juneteenth
- Fatherhood
- Pride Month
- AI
- Gun Control
- Hook Ups
- Domestic Violence
- Native Americans
- Trump
- Marketing
- Feminism
- Hospice
- Good Stories
- Writing
- Spending $1 billion
- MLK Day
- Kwanzaa
I find ideas from TV, from the news, from my stories, from my life... and I LOVE writing. I love doing the research to make the blog powerful, factual, educational, enriching. But coming up with topics has been tough. So, ideas are welcome.