{"id":5934,"date":"2011-12-21T20:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2011-12-28T06:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T11:46:59","slug":"lessons-from-relishments-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/lessons-from-relishments-a-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Relishments (+ a Giveaway!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/?p=5875\">Monday<\/a><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">,<\/span> a lot has changed since 2008.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also learned a lot since I began Relishments 3 years ago, both about life and blogging. Listing all the things I\u2019ve learned about life would take forever, so I\u2019m going to limit this particular list to just blogging lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Relishments Has Taught Me:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>bloggers are awesome:<\/strong> 3 years ago, I would\u2019ve thought you were crazy if you suggested I meet up with people I knew from the internet, but now some of my best friends are bloggers and I know people all around the world.\u00a0 I know there are a lot of crazy people out there, but the healthy living and food blogger communities have been very inviting and I\u2019ve really enjoyed their company.\u00a0 Also, the community routinely impresses me with their support and generosity.\u00a0 Every time there\u2019s a need, people deliver and it\u2019s amazing to see the power the internet has.<\/li>\n<li><strong>new vocabulary:<\/strong> When I started Relishments, I didn\u2019t have any plans to make the site a major part of my life, but clearly that\u2019s not the way things turned out.\u00a0 In my efforts to improve this site, I\u2019ve also improved my vocabulary.\u00a0 I now regularly use the following words in every day conversation: blend (blog-friend), SEO (search engine optimization), analytics (a way to track web traffic statistics), Twitter (the microblogging service), vlog (video blog), WordPress (my blogging platform) and Live Writer (the program I write posts in).\u00a0 My apologies to those no-blogger friends who have struggled to follow my conversations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>do your thing, the rest will follow:<\/strong> it\u2019s only been in the past 6 months or so that I\u2019ve really felt comfortable with my blogging.\u00a0 That is to say, I suddenly found my grove, stopped trying to do what I thought I was \u201csupposed to\u201d and just acted like myself.\u00a0 As a result, I\u2019ve gotten more positive feedback, recognition and publicity without even trying.\u00a0 My site feels like less work and more like something I\u2019m excited to work on.\u00a0 I have a feeling this sort of approach would work for other parts of my life as well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>practice makes perfect:<\/strong> the more I write, the better I feel.\u00a0 The more I practice photography, the better my pictures are.\u00a0 The more I talk to other people about my blog, the better I can explain it.\u00a0 The more I cook, the better things turn out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>its more than just a website:<\/strong> I thought Relishments and learning to cook were going to be the hobby, but it\u2019s turned into so much more than that.\u00a0 Writing Relishments has exposed me to information that has changed my entire lifestyle (the way I eat, what I purchase) and allowed me the opportunity to get involved in other things as well.\u00a0 The past 2 summers I\u2019ve experimented with container gardens on our back deck.\u00a0 This fall I got involved with a local organization trying to promote local food in the Berkshires.\u00a0 I never would\u2019ve done these things without the blog.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What I Want to Teach Others About Relishments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I never want to do this as a full time job:<\/strong> several of the bloggers I was reading when I first started Relishments have since turned their sites into full time jobs.\u00a0 That\u2019s really awesome for them, but I have no interest in doing that.\u00a0 As nice as it is to make money from my blog, I wouldn\u2019t want to rely on it.\u00a0 I have a feeling writing Relishments would stop being fun pretty quickly if it meant paying the rent.\u00a0 Plus, I\u2019m a pretty big fan of teaching.<\/li>\n<li><strong>this is serious work: <\/strong>that said, I take this blog kind of seriously.\u00a0 I really want to make it into something awesome.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly getting there and I have a lot of ideas for how to keep it moving in that direction.\u00a0 Sometimes when I tell people I have a food blog they get all \u201cOh, that\u2019s cute\u201d, but it\u2019s not.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a huge part of me, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d do without it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I love hearing from you:<\/strong> I know you\u2019re out there, but you don\u2019t often say much.\u00a0 I appreciate that you\u2019re reading, at least according to my analytics data, but I\u2019d love to know what you\u2019re thinking as well.\u00a0 Do you hate my CSA posts?\u00a0 Do you love Highlights?\u00a0 Do you want to know why I cooked something a certain way?\u00a0 Do you have a solution to one of my regularly mentioned problems?\u00a0 Let me know! Unless you comment on my posts, there\u2019s no way I can make Relishments better for you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>blogging eats all my free time<\/strong> &#8211; I work hard on this site. It\u2019s hard to explain to non-bloggers the amount of work that goes into blogging, but there\u2019s a lot more to it than just putting words on a website. There are comments to reply to and networking emails to write and reply to and the actual cooking and shopping takes time. I spend a lot of my \u201cfree time\u201d reading other blogs, working on upcoming posts, cooking or doing behind the scenes work. There\u2019s a reason I lovingly refer to it as \u201cmy other job that hardly pays\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/new-camera-dec-20111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"new camera dec 20111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.relishments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/new-camera-dec-20111_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"new camera dec 20111\" width=\"338\" height=\"482\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, to say thank you for sticking with me, I\u2019m giving away a gift to one of my awesome readers.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been reading for a long time, you probably know that one of the first cookbooks I purchased and one of my most relied upon volumes is Mark Bittman\u2019s <em>How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.<\/em>\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d do without it and I know many of you would appreciate it as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The prize:<\/strong> One randomly selected commenter below will receive their choice of a brand new copy of either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0764578650\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=relishments-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0764578650\"><em>How to Cook Everything<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; 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