You Learn To Blog Like You Learn Most Things

About once a week I get an email from someone who wants to know how they should get started blogging. I used to launch into a discussion about software and various options for hosting and driving traffic, but lately I've come to the conclusion that you get started blogging like you get started doing a lot things. So, here's my new answer. To get started blogging I suggest you do the following 3 things. 1) Download an RSS reader or subscribe to a web based service. Favorites for me are FeedDemon for RSS reader and Bloglines for web based. [Here's a good Business Blogging Resources Page too] 2) Go to Bloglines or some other Blog Directory and find blogs that are somehow related to what you want to blog about. [Bloglines make this pretty easy as it will suggest relevant blogs and FeedDemon will seemlessly integrate the two] 3) Now, just read for about 30 days. To me, that is the best way to get started on the right track. Learn what other's are doing and find out how you might do a better job of it.