If you’re immersed in the blogging world, at all, you often hear the word “niche” come up. What’s your niche. Niche-blogging. Developing your niche. It’s basically “the focus of your blogging”. I have to laugh at that because, well, I think I blog because I lack focus. In a way.
This blog was created this past fall when I decided that I really wanted to write about tech and gadgets on a regular basis and it didn’t seem that those topics would fit with my personal blog, Stacey Says. My feeble attempt at focus.
The problem with niche blogging or at least with the tech/gadget niche is that each post takes so long to write. Typically I can ramble off a post in an hour or two. Tech posts take me days. Unless I’m just writing about a program or gadget that I’m already using, there is research that must be done. I don’t want to post about something that I don’t know anything about so I first need to learn about it and then write about it a unique way. It takes a lot of time!
Too much time. More time than I have. Between writing at Stacey Says, writing for 5 Minutes for Mom, planning the Gleek Retreat, and, oh yeah, taking care of the house and kids, I just don’t have the time to dedicate to another site. Posting once every two weeks isn’t going to keep my readers coming back for more. So, I’m hitting the pause button on Girls Gone Gadget. But, I’m not hitting the pause button on writing about tech and gadgets.
I’ve decided that, since this blog is an extension of me, then writing about gadgets and tech at Stacey Says isn’t completely out of place. So, from now on, I will be writing tech posts over there. This isn’t to say that I’m completely tossing Girls Gone Gadget away. I just might resurrect it when I get a little better handle on my time!
I’d love to have you follow me over to Stacey Says and, if the family stuff isn’t something you want to read, then skip over those and just read the techy ones.
This is me continuing to find that illusive balance of blogging!
