Sunday, December 4, 2011

Kelly Oxford


I've recently developed an obsession with blogger Kelly Oxford and the idea of creating a career out of creative social networking. Kelly is a smart, sarcastic, fashionable young mother, and she operates a blog with observations about her life and pop culture and has thousands of followers on Twitter. In a way, I want to be Kelly -- she seems to have it all, and a TV pilot and book deal in the works, all from Twitter and Tumblr.

How is this possible? To me, it seems like there is a paradox surrounding social networking. In order to attract followers to your blog, you have to post interesting/funny/intelligent things. But in order to have the motivation to post these things, you (or I) have to at least feel like someone is reading them. Sometimes I want to ask how people on Twitter feel about 80s movies, but I feel like a crazy person if no one replies. Or other
days I want to make a Tumblr post about a concert that I went to, but it seems like a waste of time if no one reads it.

Kelly, how did you do it? And more importantly, how can I do it??

1 comment:

  1. You have to think of it this way: You have to start somewhere. No one was reading ANYONE at first. It takes time to build an audience. Just start.

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