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Newcomers to the blogging world are often very, very surprised—it's not just a world, it's a community in the truest sense of the word. It's warm, inviting and friendly, just like an old-fashioned real world community. Community is a word that is tossed around so often that I thought it had lost all meaning -- and my career includes a stint running portal technology for a set of 60+ internet sites with over 300,000 users in total. In my blogging experience, what I have found online is a level of community that hasn’t been seen since the late 1980s before the Internet became a piece of everyday life. A good analogy for the blogging community is the following:
Blogging feels like a small rural town. The roads may not always be paved, sometimes the electricity goes on and off but the people are friendly and everyone is happy to help you.
When you start blogging, you won't find the fit and finish of a commercial product like Microsoft Word (the road isn't paved), the technical support is, well, interesting (the electricity goes on and off) but what you will find is worth the journey. If you need help with your blog or something that you are writing, post it to your blog and you’ll probably be surprised at the level of help you are offered. Detailed examples are here:
http://www.fuzzygroup.com/go/?blogCommunityExamples
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