Epiblogger

Just over a year ago Lee and I launched Epiblogger and now we are calling it quits. I am done with this blog, I says. What are you supposed to say when you close a blog.

I woke up this morning and thought—there are at least 3 posts I have in my head that I need to write for Epi. I have the time. But I am not making the time. What’s wrong? I got to work and Lee IM’d me and said we need to talk about Epi…

It’s me, not you

I think I’ve started to understand that I am not a teacher. I am a do’er. Though I like to think a lot about theory and ideas, I don’t know that I have successfully been able to communicate them or I have communicated them to death. I haven’t been able to connect universally. One-on-one I have had great success. While I wrote about organic blogging, I found that I spent most of my time wishing that I could just be organic blogging. I don’t know how to write about writing, but I do know how to write.

I have had the oppurtunity to make some great relationships over the last year and that’s what I’ll take with me. Thanks to everyone who commented and started some really great and meaningful conversations. As Lee is about to talk about, I will be moving my posts over to my blog and Lee to his.

This was a great experiment, but I have come to understand that my passion lays in other directions. Feel free to stop by either of my blogs.

Changes, Changes

Life is full of changes. When Rhett approached me with the idea of Epiblogger little did I know that in the next year of launching Epiblogger that my wife and I would move to Regina, my blog would require more time, and that my family would need more time from me. I think Rhett and I both knew the writing was on the wall for Epiblogger back in August, but change is hard for me and I don’t like to give up easily. Now in January 2009 though I have to focus more on my business and my family. My business has been growing steadily over the last year and is requiring more of my time. My family also needs their Dad, especially my little girl, who has a speech development delay. Add it all up and 2009 meant changes, and that change had to be Epiblogger.

There is some great content that Rhett and I have written here and to keep it alive, Rhett and I will be moving our posts over to our blogs. You will be able to find Rhett’s posts over at Rhett Soveran - Web and Blog Consulting and Communications, and my posts will be available at the LGR Internet Solutions Blog. I have created a post already highlighting the Epiblogger content and tagged all the posts from Epiblogger so they are easy to find. I have also created redirects for my posts to their new locations on the LGR Internet Solutions blog, so you should be redirected to the new location.

For all of our great RSS subscribers, I would encourage you to check out both my RSS feed and Rhett’s RSS feed and subscribe. We both blog regularly on our sites and you might see me guest posting on Rhett’s blog or Rhett on mine.

While Epiblogger is closing, this site will remain online for awhile. The hosting is paid for, the domain name is paid for and there are some posts here that will remain. It has been a great experience working with Rhett on Epiblogger and I know that Rhett and I will keep in contact and will partner up again at some point. Thanks to everyone that has been a regular reader here, commented and been a part of Epiblogger. It has been fun.

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