I am often asked if there is a future for blogs, bloggers, and blogging. It has been 20 years since they showed up on the scene and so much has changed by then. Can they really have a place even in 2020 and beyond? I am convinced they can, and I say that based on a number of good reasons which I’ve laid out elsewhere. But a question remains: If you want to get started with blogging in 2020, how would you go about it? It’s a great question and one I am going to answer as simply as I know how.

Pick a Theme

The first thing you’ll need to do, of course, is figure out what you’d like to write about. You might decide to be a generalist (as I am) and write about whatever is especially interesting to you. It might be better, though, to pick an area of particular interest and focus in on that. With so many blogs out there, there is something to be said for being (or becoming) an authority in one defined area, then perhaps broadening out later. What are you interested in? What are you passionate about? Where are


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