[stylist] Info on Sites

[Neil Butters]

Hello Donna,

It is probably a good idea to introduce myself to the group. I am a 
freelance medical writer with a PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology. I have 
edited and written articles for publication in scientific journals and on 
websites (for a general audience).

I became legally blind during my last year of study, and complete blindness 
followed a year later. I wrote an article about my vision problems, called 
Fade to Black, for an online magazine, You and Me Magazine 
(www.youandmemagazine.com). They publish first person health-related stories 
written by anyone. Readers of this list may be interested in publishing 
there.

Neil



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From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Info on Sites

> Neil,
> Just curious, what are you doing now? Your topic sounds like it would lend 
> itself to an online magazine or article directory.
> Donna
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> Neil Butters wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am a little late with a response to Judith's post concerning the 
>> usefulness of social networking and blogs. In my experience, blogs are 
>> useless for networking.
>>
>> I wrote a blog for over a year and averaged maybe 2 or 3 visitors a week. 
>> I never received comments. I didn't get any jobs or meet anyone. I 
>> "advertised" the blog on several directories, but I don't have a Facebook 
>> page, so that was the extent of my advertising. Working against me as 
>> well was the topic: pharmacology and toxicology (although I wrote it for 
>> a general audience).
>>
>> I think there are very few blog success stories relative to the number of 
>> blogs. I think popularity and usefulness are dependent on many factors, 
>> such as topic, promotion, SEO, etc.
>>
>> I also question the usefulness of blogs as writing samples because they 
>> are self-published, and are therefore not subject to critique or the 
>> challenges of being good enough for publication.
>>
>> Neil
>>
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