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Has the fad of blogging died out yet? I – like Darren Rowse of Problogger.net – hate the term itself. Sounds like some bodily indiscretion: “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go blog.” However, publishing through the Internet offers great opportunities to improve several important abilities. You’ll sharpen your marketable skills, make some new friends, and possibly bring in some extra money as you start sharing your ideas through blogging.

Blogging Can Help You Improve Your Communication Skills

Personal note taking and journal writing often give license to poor spelling, incomplete thoughts and poorly-expressed feelings. Knowing that your writing will be made public should cause you to be more disciplined about writing clearly.

The visibility of what you write also exposes your vocabulary, grammar, and spelling to millions of editors. And they will let you know when you’ve mistyped or used poor grammar. They’ll also argue with you, but I’ll address that in a few paragraphs.

Blogging May Help You Increase Comprehension and Retention of Information

When you use blogging as a channel to share lessons you’ve learned, things you’ve researched, or as a study record, you’re inclined to fix that information more permanently in your own mind. Reformulating ideas into your own words will help you grasp difficult concepts quicker.

Do you believe that I really thought much about how blogging can help you learn before I wrote this article? Now – if anyone asked – I could share a few ideas about the topic fairly confidently because of the thought I put into this post. Is there some difficult concept you’re trying to master? Plan on writing about it in one of your own posts and it will make your concentration much more effective.

Blogging Will Develop Your Critical Thinking Skills

There are many critical people scouring the Internet for some slipup or weak idea to tear an author down for. If we’re insecure and can’t handle that criticism, we may shut down the commenting ability on our blog. Inviting, even welcoming differing opinions about what you write presents an opportunity to develop your logic that much more.

Knowing readers will hold your feet to the fire for documentation, evidence, or further proof of your writing should cause you to be more responsible. Though I’m too pressed for time now to include all the sources for what I’ve written in this post, I’m readily prepared to cite sources and research defending what I shared. I’m an Instructional Designer by trade and can go toe-to-toe with any of you who want to argue these points.

You May Learn Business or Technical Skills through Blogging

Depending how serious you are about your blog, you may want to make money doing it (a Problogger) or just do it for fun (a Kumbaya blogger). If it’s the money you want, blogging professionally brings with it the necessity of learning things like Internet marketing, search engine optimization, ecommerce, web site administration/design, and much more.

If you’re serious about making money and want to learn from people that have done very well at it, I recommend Yaro Starak’s free Blog Profits Blueprint eBook, and Darren Rowse’s $20 eBook, 31 Days to Build a Better Blog.

So, if you’ve blogged regularly (excuse you), what are some of the things the process has taught you?

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