Cruisin'

...around the world? Sure, that's part of the Artemisia experience - different people from around the world are brought together to foster and work on common ideas. I am not here to elaborate more on how awesome this whole thing is, especially when I haven't even arrived to my destination city and start my internship yet.

What I'm talking about is cruising on the net as a spokesperson of the many initiatives, ideas and concepts that come along with being an Artemisia intern. Yes we love it already, obviously, but how do we make it big and as interactive as possible other than, say, blogging about our experiences?

This is not by any means to convey a negative feeling about the blog. Don't get me wrong! I've started blogging in 1999, creating from scratch blog designs and only recently dropped from updating my blog. I was too lazy a high school student to bother keeping a hand-written journal, and loves the way one can play around with blog designs and meet people from all walks of life online via blogging. I'm just curious to find out who reads this blog, how they'd found it, and what we could learn from the people who stopped by and read our thoughts.

I guess I am particularly intrigued by the question since I'd be working in the communications and media area in my internship, and online marketing is obviously indispensable in the whole shebang. Also, I've seen more than a few blogs which, despite a lot of organized effort and steady updates, somehow just didn't make it to the newsfeed of the targeted group we were trying to reach. The blog my team and I worked on during my MC term was exactly one of those.

No offense to any of the contributors here, as this blog is already seeing a constant feed of updates, and most importantly, updates of various kinds- Francis shares her feelings on her first days in Brazil; Rob talks about the ongoing challenges and cool facts about his work; news from Romania and Artemisia contest finalists, etc.

I just thought the below blog post, via www.chrisbrogan.com (currently one of the net's biggest, larger-than-virtual-life social media gurus), proposes some of the answers into looking at the challenge. Not that we are blogging for a living. But perhaps it's quick tip if ever we are looking into increasing virtual exposure for ourselves, or for our work?

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-to-blog-almost-every-day/