Blogger to Blogger.

As a blogger just starting out, I am constantly looking for ways to improve my blog and find inspiration to keep me going. Today I had the opportunity to listen a well-known political blogger in the Oklahoma area and it was really an awesome experience. His name is Kurt Hochenauer and he is the writer of Okie Funk. He is an English professor at the University of Central Oklahoma and all around just a normal guy who's blog really took off. Hochenauer started as a journalist for the Tulsa Tribune and other publications when he noticed the need for a more liberal perspective in the Oklahoma area; this is why he started his blog. He told us that he looks to articles online and does his research before he posts a story, which he does about 3 times per week. He has faced a lot of controversy for what he has written but he felt, especially as an educator, that it was his responsibility to the community.

He gave the class some advice for starting our blogs and that was that we needed a good platform, which I feel like blogger does really well. He encouraged us to be unique in our writing and that "good writing is the number one thing about a successful blog." He also told us that what we were doing is important for us in a professional aspect and that was really great to hear. It was very reassuring that having a blog that is sports themed could be great for my future. The final thing I took from his speech was that journalism can sometimes become shallow so having something like a blog that you can pour out your passion into is really important.

If you'd like to check out Kurt's blog, here's the link below.
Okie Funk