Master Blogger

While reading and pondering, I wonder, since anyone can and millions have written a blog, what is there to consider to improve blogging, both as a writer and as an effective influence in an audience. What sets a common blogger apart from the extraordinary blogger? What makes a Master Blogger? What is a Master Blogger?

Essentially everyone can bounce a basketball but there's only one Michael Jordan. We all have something we can teach or a story to tell, but it is a treat to learn from the master teacher or listen to the master storyteller. These masters have taken the basic skills and refined them into an art, telling not of the story, but telling it with inflection, with timing, with animation, with colorful forms of speech that draws the listener in; or handled the ball as if it were a part of the body and handled the body as if it were magic.

This is the goal of a Master Blogger. To take the basic skills of using the blog, to take the understanding of human behavior, especially as related to learning and teaching, to take the societal and cultural patterns of the day; these are parts of the Master Blogger's resume.

While I am not that blogger, I can applaud one who is. I can encourage one who may be. This then is our goal: to discover the basic technology, to incorporate the use of the English language effectively, to write to affect change and hence learning, and to promote that the audience is appropriate.