It seems like the ideal job; roll out of bed around noon, write about your day, sleep, repeat. But there is more to being a professional blogger than sharing anecdotes in your pajamas.
First, let’s get past the stereotype that bloggers and p.j.’s go hand-in-hand.
Professional blogging is a career, whether it’s done at home or in an office.
Heather Armstrong, author of dooce.com, understands the amount of work that is necessary for making a blog a business. She has become one of the most well-known professional bloggers, with more than 1.5 million followers on Twitter (@dooce) and her blog, and she’s been named as one of the 30 most influential women in the media by Forbes magazine. She and her husband work full-time on the blog, as well as raise two children.
At the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, we caught up with Armstrong before her presentation at the WestlawNext-sponsored CLE, “Legal Issues Resulting from the Social Media Explosion,” which you can read more about here. She told us about why she became a professional blogger and the obstacles that come with living under public scrutiny as a blogger in the first clip, and what a “typical” day in her life is actually like in the second clip below.
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