{"id":990,"date":"2009-07-19T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T16:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-08-02T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T23:58:31","slug":"focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello to the three search engines that seem to be my primary visitors. Yes, I know it’s been months since I posted here. I’ve been too busy posting elsewhere, like on Bedford Bits<\/a> and @newsfromtengrrl<\/a>. I seem to have an overwhelming problem with focus these days. <\/p>\n

I just want to keep up with too many topics and write too many things. In the end, I get nothing done. I may be able to blame NCTE partially. In my jobs there, I had to have the breadth to speak to everything from kindergarten to grad school. When I stop myself and try to step back to pre-NCTE days, I realize I never was all that focused in the first place. I want to do too much. I have ideas and ideas and ideas, but never the time or energy to pursue them all with the attention they need.<\/p>\n

Take my posts to @newsfromtengrrl<\/a>. I am finding stories in the news that touch on technology and education, language arts, teaching literature, and college English. Working on NCTE’s Inbox<\/a> for all those years has its benefits. In the last couple of weeks though, I’ve posted only a few stories to the news account. I’m having trouble putting in the energy when the posts just don’t seem to go anywhere. <\/p>\n

I use bit.ly<\/a> to track click-through on the article URLs. If I’m really lucky, I may see a dozen people click on a link. The overall average for the 4 months I’ve been tracking is closer to half that. I’ve posted the RSS feed of the posts here on tengrrl.com<\/a>, on the English Companion Ning<\/a>, and on the NCTE Ning<\/a>, but that’s not really influenced traffic from what I see.<\/p>\n

What’s missing? Why aren’t the posts used? <\/p>\n