Guest post by Julius Kuhn-Regnier of AndBreak!
Blogging has become quite popular within the last few years for good reasons. A blog let’s you share your ideas with other people, people that are like you. It is ultimately a way to get heard. Not only is it that but also a means of getting other people to be heard. Through that you can actually change the world.
You probably think I am nuts. How does it make a difference when you give other people the chance to be heard? Let me show you some of my ideas here.
If you have read David Meerman Scott‘s book The New Rules of Marketing and PR then you will understand the kind of power bloggers have. It’s so easy to change the world but so many people simply don’t think about this.
One Step at a Time
You won’t change the world simply by creating a blog. Even if you have a blog where you write about helping others you will not radically change the world.
But here is what you can do. You can change the world one step at a time. That’s what all great people have done. You can change the world by helping someone out today. Even if it’s just a small contribution, ultimately it’s about contributing something to make the world a better place.
Help the People You Want to Help
As a blogger you have the power of choosing to write about whatever you want. There is no such thing as a limit. This of course gives you the ability to change the world. Change the world by writing about someone who needs help.
Recently I came across a blog from a young teenager who lives in Nigeria. His name is Onibalusi Bamidele and he is 16 years old. He has been building up his Internet presence for some time now. By talking about him you ultimately help him with achieving his goal:
I hope to change the blogging world by helping people achieve their dreams through my articles. My motivations are my goals and my top goal is to impact lives and that is why I can return when I am off-track.
– Onibalusi
You have the possibility of telling your readers about other people. People who are in danger, people who need help, people who are successful.
The connections you have made through blogging can be so powerful. Especially well-known blogs have the power to expose flaws within companies or products, a privilege that only the media has had up to this point.
Have a Mission
If blogging is not enough for you to help people then pursue your mission. I recently came across The Give Project. The idea behind this site is to help people, who are in need or don’t have enough money, by using social networks such as Facebook.
The idea seems to work out great and there already have been numerous success stories.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
What do you think? Can you really change the world by blogging?
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