Help Make This Blog Better
October 23, 2009With my blogoversary only a week away, it is time to start considering my goals for my second year of blogging. So if you are a relatively consistent or veteran reader, please answer any/all of the following questions in the comment section:
- Which features do you find most useful on this blog?
- Which do you find most interesting?
- Which features do you find least useful/interesting?
- What topics would you like to see discussed in year two of Spectrum Siblings?
- What other changes would you like to see made to this blog?
- If you can recall, name (or describe) a few post which you found to be particularly interesting/well-written/insightful/useful.
Thank you for your assistance in making Spectrum Siblings the best blog it can be.
I enjoy posts about the kids you work with (charger, josh, his brother, and the kids at your center). I also like reading stories about your brother and you when you were little. Information about what life was like for you when you were younger and how you remember it and how it shaped you into what you are today is very helpful for me so that I can try to guide my little aspie in the right direction.
Wow. Honestly, Cale, I wouldn’t be able to pick a favorite, or tell you where I’d like to see changes. I honestly love your blog, as is.
I do enjoy hearing about when you and your brother were younger, and about the kids you work with, but that’s the parent in me.
I guess if I had to pick something I’d like to hear more on, it would be self-regulation. My son is having major issues with this right now, and has just turned plain ol’ mean.
That and motivation. Nothing is motivating wnough for my child to do work in school. Nothing.
Okay, so I guess that’s my two cents.
I’ll answer your questions one at a time:
* – As a reader, I suppose the most useful feature is the comment feature.
* – Your posts are probably the most interesting part of your blog. That and the blogroll. And the comments. Actually, it’s all very interesting.
* – Hmmm. The “Possibly Related Posts” are kind of misleading, IMHO. When I first clicked on one, I thought it was another post you’d written. But it took me to a completely different blog! Didn’t expect that. However, it’s a largely innocuous feature; it doesn’t bother me per se.
* – As they say in Australia, “I’m not fussed.” Write about whatever you like! I’ve enjoyed your posts so far. I also like reading about your day-to-day life, but that’s probably more fodder for your Twitter account.
I suppose you have to consider what YOU want this blog to be, what audiences you’re trying to appeal to, and so forth. But I’ll probably read it regardless.
* – See above. Up to you. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” would be my only comment.
* – I really liked the post where you responded to the “Things Every Child With Autism Wants You To Know”. I also liked the posts about your brother and your childhood. Oh boy, could I relate to that stuff.
Keep up the good work!
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Something about “Love Your Work”!
I have enjoyed reading the posts you write about scripts, as this is an undercovered area, especially in our behaviour-analysis dominated world.
Also the Try-this Tuesday anthology.
Have enjoyed several of your other posts, like about Tourettes. It was the most comprehensive one I had read in a while.
And your English as a Second Language students.
Happy blogiversary!
Something that could be improved: More links to those on the spectrum. More book reviews too.