Master New Media:
1. Open-minded - knows no standard and can use and adopt any specific one offered. Can easily let go of long held beliefs and adopt new ways of working and seeing things rapidly. Uses flexibility, humbleness and focus as her key propulsion engines.
2. Curious - wants to understand the why and how of things. How they work, why we do things in a certain way and not like everyone else. Leverages sincere curiosity to ask, explore and discover what is not superficially evident.
How can you tell: Your would be pro-blogger candidate doesn’t say ‘OK, sure, I know… oh yeah I know that too…’ as you explain new things to her. She is silent, takes lots of quality notes (which sHe will later share with you) and asks relevant questions when given the opportunity to do so.
3. Humble - is not eager to show off her talent and to credit herself for things she knows only very little about. She knows that true credit is the one given by the readers and not the one she self-awards on her personal blog. She often credits you and others publicly for the your good work.
4. Perseverant - A professional blogger is someone that strongly believes, beyond factual evidence, that today’s new media technologies do offer an opportunity to anyone to provide useful, entertaining and at times self-sustainable content services without needing to be hired by anyone. Realizing such confidence requires tons of will and perseverance. It is in fact over the day to day commitment and dedication to improve and refine one’s own skills that any would-be blogger can self-elect herself to a ‘professional’ level.
5. Responsible - Taking responsibility for one’s own action and mistakes while acknowledging them in the open is one of the most valuable traits a professional in any field should have. For a professional blogger being responsible means taking double care in approving content for publication, making sure that readers and comments get their due attention, reporting problems and issues found along the road and making sure they get fixed instead of looking the other way around.
6. Picky - blogging doesn’t mean that you always need to favour and spontaneity for quality writing and proper grammar. A professional blogger will always take the time to spell check, review and check in detail his formatted article before submitting it for approval or publishing it directly online. Attention to detail is the single most underutilized competitive advantage component by bloggers. Attention to references and use of links, ethical use of other people images and content, are all key strategic components for building high value and highly credible web sites.
7. Committed - bloggers that are only after the money, last only so much. Unless you would-be pro-blogger has a bigger cause and motive behind her interest for writing and reporting you are going to find yourself short-handed when you most need it. Great professional bloggers are those that are first serving their self-interested needs to voice important ideas, to sincerely share the insight provided by the intelligent application of new tools, those that truly serve a purpose before selling their supposed skill.
8. Passionate… continue reading.
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