I had run dry.
I had written about 1000+ separate blogs on The Kyle Phoenix Blog, over the course of about 4–6 years. At first I did it as a supplemental informational source to The Kyle Phoenix Show television show which was an enlarged spin-off of The Kyle Phoenix Videos on YouTube. So start it all from about 2009, with a lot of the workshops, content, books being in development and design and production phases from about 2003—-when I first got online in a direct business way.
While now, written out clearly, it seems that it was all clear and planned and connected, initially it wasn’t and I spent an entire year or so in the middle, reorganizing, cataloguing and figuring out symmetry and intra/inter relationships of material.
One of the biggest challenges of doing a cohesive and expansive media business made up of several kinds of media (print, TV, video, blogsa, podcasts, etc.) is that it doesn’t start out so wide ranging—-it evolves that way.
There came a point where I realized that the KP Blog site had to evolve as well. But how?
So I came across Quora, ironically I’d been indirectly signed up to it for a couple of years before I began writing on it, I noticed its constant alerts in my Inbox and delved deeper into why it was alerting me, what it was alerting me about and the potential usages. Asking questions and providing answers, simple. I scrolled through the questions and realized that I knew lots of answers, could type them up and that would become not one but two-five forms of blogging.
- Blogging on Quora and tagging it immediately launches me into/supports my already expansive reach/name search in Search Engines. Go ahead type in Kyle Phoenix! Or #KylePhoenix! Or Kyle Phoenix and Quora.
- The Kyle Phoenix Blog on two other platforms—-I share, replicate, duplicate my work there. Which triples——actually more——my viewers, connections, etc. because I’m reaching multiple audiences by essentially showcasing my work on multiple platforms (think of it as movie theaters or entire states.)
- Shareable work on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.. Again I can share my work—-in spite of some platforms (FB, Twitter, Instagram have all kinds of sharing rules and loopholes and I’ve counted at least 3–4 changes over the past 10 years) having limitations. This means that if I have 5000+ Friends/Followers on those platforms then if I post something and it gets an average 10,000 views/reads and I multiply that several times to say 50,000 and then I multiply that again—-there have been times where I’ve pushed my numbers from 1000 to 150,000 to 2 million to 18 million views/reads/impressions/people in the “audience”. And that’s just the first time, I can keep pushing relevant blog posts once a month for a decade or more to thousands of people.
- An expansive planned plan for blogging. At a certain point you will have hundreds, if not thousands of blogs floating around cyberspace. because it’s termed cyberspace, I use in my business meetings/design the analogy of Star Trek and astronomy terminology to describe what a piece of content is, what it does and its’ reach.
- A Blog might be simply a space shuttle/a runabout. It’s under 10,000 words, has images and backlinks to Space Ships, Space Stations, Moons and Planets. The beauty of it is that it can be launched from a platform, it can be a drone/probe and not need constant interactive-human maintenance—-you can launch some into space and they with communicate their comments, connections, demographics back to a main Ship or Platform.
- A Brief/Special Report is something I learned to design that are bigger that say a Blog article but smaller than a book. These are potentially for sale because they contain such useful and concentrated information. These could be an amalgamation of several Blog Articles or a Runabout—-a shuttle built expressly for long range/longterm missions in “cyberspace”. I have about 60–75 of these “out there”.
- A dozen or twenty well written, well received Blog articles on a particular subject can easily be assembled into a Paperback Book, an eBook or in my terminology a Star Ship. A Star Ship is an independent entity that can go into cyberspace and is self sustaining for its lifetime, which can be measured in potentially decades. It can be fiction or nonfiction but is generally exclusively one or the other BUT it can have active backlinks to a Hub, other Starships, a hub for shuttles and runabouts. Though it can go further on it’s own, it’s never quite alone—-it’s always connected to the Master System.
- A Moon/Space Station is where the material, teh Blog is constructed and launched from. You could consider Quora or Blogger or WordSense a planetary system—-which has all the bells and whistles of a solar system to be sustainable and launch content from it. Initially we’re all replicating one shuttle after another until we have cobbled together a starship and then replicate more shuttles to send them out to explore as the home group turns out not just space shuttles but better space shuttles into long range runabouts and then shuttles and runabouts into spaceships. Then one or two ships start working on staying stable and becoming the beginnings of a space station, while at the same time still constructing more shuttles, runabouts and space stations and eventually that group of starships has created a group of space stations that then colonize a moon and look at how to colonize a planet and then formulate their own planetary system.
- Imagination to Cyberspace & Ownership. I came up with using this space/ship analogy because I was trying to imagine what exactly was I trying to do? That’s when it became pleasurable when you take some time and start imagining that cyberspace is like an undiscovered universe where you can stake out as big a claim as you can imagine—-because it’s infinite. Now to understand it’s infinite potential, you have to also remember that the planetary systems—-Quora, Facebook, Blogger—-can always shut you down. They change business models, they go out of business, they disagree with your blogs/posts. If Quora goes down today or hates me tomorrow—-I have back ups of all of my Blog posts and they’re replicated elsewhere—-it would be like a ROOM in the Kyle Phoenix mansion (or space sector) going dark but Kyle Phoenix’s entire network wouldn’t shut down. That’s the overarching mentality you have to have to expand a blog—-that the content, even in the beginning when it’s messy and you’re trying to figure out what you’re trying to do or write about or you’re writing about a thousand different things—-it is inherently YOURS (mine.) And as you post it—-those companies exist because content (blogs, etc.) have monetary value.
- The monetary value of a Blog article/posting comes from the whole system—-shuttle to runabout to starship to space station to moon to planet to planetary system networking and aligning—-so you go from pennies to dollars to lots of dollars the better that network is. Large companies like QUora, FB and others simply have millions of us Blog creators/spacefarers creating millions of small networks, some good some bad, but all of value, and they get pennies, dollars, millions of times over back from our work. Think of ants carrying crumbs and every crumb giving a small percentage back to a hive—-Quora, FB, Twitter, etc. for them to sell to advertisers.
- Quality of Your Blog. When I started thinking of it as a thing that I could project/expand out into a larger cyberspace universe and that was a representation of me, my work, my knowledge, what I had learned, etc. I started to care about how it looked, the ease of reading it, the grammar, the playfulness, the research. Eventually with time and maturity, your writing should mature in the sense that you’ll have multiple capabilities and styles with which you’ll write. Fun, serious, deep, personal, etc. depending on the topic and your mood. Then you’ll get into how the blog looks because you’ll have gotten some feedback as well as seen others—-adding pictures to certain blogs, article links to your other blogs or other people’s information for depth and clarification; pictures and videos that support the text. In editing, i generally circle back around to all blog articles within 24–168 hours because by then I have a clear eye to what I was doing, meant, I may ruminate a bit moe on the subject, I might have a thought or deeper thought about some small point. Or even someone’s feedback may push me to clarify what I meant. Yes, all of the expansive network broadcasting means that I can sometimes end up updating something that thousands have already read—-so I try not to make too deep of substantive changes, just corrections and clarifications. I think about the integrity of the piece that I don’t want someone to have raved about something I wrote and then I substantially change the piece to something that might not have substantially raved about—-I play fair and maintain a level of integrity to a malleable cyber-piece just as I would to printed piece of work—-considering that one is static in time and fixed untila new printed edition and another an be altered minute to minute.
A Blog becomes enjoyable when you start envisioning it from your initial small scale to a bigger, broader, expansive scale of not only information but potentiality. It’s not usual unless you work in reality in some sort of field where you can keep such direct counting and tabulation of your output/work to know “Ok, I made 10 Blog Posts last week, 15 this week. I got 1000 reads. 37% of them were women, 79% of them were men over 50.”
When you start to see the affect and effect of your blogging, the excitement level ratchets up because you start seeing the effect of your writing. Helping people, bridging to people, making online friends, etc..
All things of value, take time. But if you have a 1,3,5, 10 year vision on your blog—-make a time commitment, you’ll slowly start to see what works, what doesn’t, what has to be changed slightly, you’ll read interesting stuff—-you’ll start to understand all the high end data design discussions and terminology—-and you’ll be able to slowly apply and design in “new” technology to your posts. Then them numbers start clicking in on posts and you’re like WOW! there’s a whole universe out there (in cyberspace) and thousands, millions of them are checking out (perhaps buying/paying for) my stuff!
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Kyle Phoenix is a teacher, certified adult educator, sexologist, sex coach and sexuality educator with over two decades of intensive experience. He studied at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, New York University, and Columbia University. He has worked, consulted and taught individuals and focused professional developments for the CDC, Department of Education, Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York City Department of Health, non-profits, Fortune 500 companies and unions. He began his career facilitating on-campus workshops addressing a wide range of sexuality and sexual health issues and then moved on to teaching at universities, non-profits, private groups and clients, hosting The Kyle Phoenix Show on television and multiple online webinars, including YouTube and Sclipo and writing extensively through his blog, Special Reports, articles and other print and E books in the Kyle Phoenix Series on relationships, finance, education, spirituality and culture. He lives in New York with his family.
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