Laura’s Winning Ideas

Today I’m reading through postings at two very different blogs.

One is the blog of an artist, Susan Reynolds. Looking in an Artist’s mind is like opening someone else’s junk drawer, finding an odd assortment of objects, twine and string, all too precious to leave behind, and many with a story to tell. Susan’s Blog is a peek in her junkdrawer. Her website and biography are neatly organized and cross linked. Her blog is more relaxed, a place to tuck away tidbits that don’t yet belong in the gallery because they haven’t yet been transformed into public art.
I found her recommendation of a Folk Singer/Song Writer, Carrie Newcomer. I’ve heard Carrie in concert and played her albums for months afterwards. One of her songs, “My Father’s Only Son” is a favorite of mine.

Susan would enjoy another artist I’m hoping to have appear here in June, Tom Prasado Rao, who performs with his bride, Cary Cooper as The Dreamsicles. I’ll send her an invitation, even though she lives on the east coast and isn’t likely to be near Wisconsin in June. You just never know.

The other blog today is a corporate blog by Cheskin, a consulting group that practices in the consumer retail realm. Experts in diverse studies work in this firm, using every possible way to perceive, envision and imagine the needs, dreams and wants of their client’s marketplaces. Their blog is authored a collection of consultant/writers. I got an inside look at the way they do business on this blog. It is (appropriately so) more tidy. But I enjoyed the flavor of different writers style and the way they each approached their topics. The blog article Money vs. Dinero is a good example of their understanding of Hispanic consumers and their posts from locations around the globe are impressive.

If you are thinking about blogging, looking over blogs like this and analyzing why they work (and both of these work well) helps you use that understanding to outline the goals for your own blog.