Kirylin’s Voice

If you just thought my blogging voice was complicated after Lorelle’s last blogging challenge, you’re really going to wonder about me after this week’s blogging challenge!

This week’s challenge asks us to consider who we blog for. Let’s start with the easy ones:

• CareerNiche- This blog is geared toward those consider some sort of change in their career. There is information on changing careers (including writing resumes and interviewing), freelancing, and becoming an entrepreneur. The log for this blog seems to indicate that it’s successfully reaching some sort of population interested in changing their career, and it has been linked to by other career-related bloggers and career sites.
• DesignNiche- This blog has a split personality. On the one hand, it’s a storehouse for my links and observations related to graphic and web design, something I’m really not finding the time to practice these days. Most of the visitors to the site are looking for this information. The other side of this blog’s personality talks about my experiences as a handcrafter, something I seem to have zero time for these days. A few people visit for this information, and are more likely to contact me with questions relating to handcrafts than computer work. I’m really not sure if I have a determined audience for this one as it’s more about documenting my own leanring experiences.
• EducationNiche- This blog is intended to share what I’m learning about informal learning as I try to stay well-read on the field, as well as my reflective teaching moments. It’s been linked to by a variety of places, some of which I can’t determine, even with the help of all the blogging tools online. The most popular posts seem to be the reflective posts where I’m recording thoughts and procedures on teaching math concepts, or those that talk about my own informal teaching experience.
• JewelryNiche- This blog has two deliberately targeted audiences- potential cutomers and fellow designers. Potential customers are treated to stories on various materials and designs present in my work. Fellow designers are treated to my adventures in designing my jewelry and trying to open a web business. It may seem a bit odd to arm my “competition” like that, but I figure we all started somewhere, and in the end, we all create to different tastes. (This is also the single hardest to navigate blog in the collection! I really need to fix that.)
• WritingNiche- This blog originally had no real point to it. Now, it’s become a storehouse for resources, reflections, and writing prompts (which I really need more). I guess it’s grown to have a target audience of fellow writers who are just starting to become serious in their writing like me. From what I’ve noticed, though, more experienced writers seem to find the place useful, too.

Then there’s this blog. The audience I expect here is primarily friends and family, maybe the occasional former student (although current students have found me here as well). This blog is as diverse and random as I am, and so I really don’t expect it to appeal to anyone except me. Admittedly, I do have this wild fantasy about certain talented gentlemen finding it and defending themselves or sending me a cease-and-desist email, but I honestly don’t expect either.
Interestingly enough, the log for this blog reveals that people read this blog primaily because of my obsession with a certain company that dubs Japanese cartoons. Even when I have written nothing related to 4Kids recently, the majority of my hits are related to 4Kids properties. It’s crazy! Other popular topics on this blog include EverNote (which recently brought me to the company’s attention unexepctedly) and the old logic problem concerning two doors guarded by an honest man and a liar.

For the most part, all of my blogs are written to help me keep track of and process my thoughts on what I read, but I do understand there’s a chance they’ll be read by other people. If anything I’ve learned, read, or figured out can help someone trying to learn about that topic, then the part of my personality that adores the power of peer teaching gets quite excited.

I guess you can say that my ultimate audience is the person who comes with the deliberate intention to learn something about the topic contained within that blog.