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Blogging Story: Chasta Piatakovas
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 10:00AM
This blogging story comes to us from Chasta Piatakovas of Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies.
I started Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies on February 27, 2008. Love the Game started as a personal online diary to explore thoughts and feelings surrounding an emotional event in my life using the sport of ice hockey as a metaphor. After I overcame the event and really became more involved in the hockey world, I transformed the blog into a more reflective sports journalistic site with interviews, commentary, and articles about the Washington Capitals and hockey.
The blog has afforded me – a young woman of color and hockey fan – the tremendous opportunities to receive credentials to cover the Capitals from the press box and locker room; to meet or to interview prominent figures in the hockey community such as hockey legend Peter Bondra and Capitals majority team owner Ted Leonsis, and four-team ice hockey Olympic medalist and world champion Angela Ruggiero; and to contribute to the Scarlet Blog, the first women's initiative in the NHL to attract more women to the Capitals and to ice hockey.
I think a blog is the perfect tool for networking and self-discovery. Anyone who wants to blog should pick a topic – a niche – that they are passionate about to establish credibility and start writing.
How did you begin blogging? Who (or what) influenced or inspired you? What has blogging brought to your life? We want to know! Send your post to staff@blackweblogawards.com in text (500 words or less), audio, or video, and we’ll post them on the Black Weblog Awards blog! Visit our Blogging Story post for more information.
I started Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies on February 27, 2008. Love the Game started as a personal online diary to explore thoughts and feelings surrounding an emotional event in my life using the sport of ice hockey as a metaphor. After I overcame the event and really became more involved in the hockey world, I transformed the blog into a more reflective sports journalistic site with interviews, commentary, and articles about the Washington Capitals and hockey.
The blog has afforded me – a young woman of color and hockey fan – the tremendous opportunities to receive credentials to cover the Capitals from the press box and locker room; to meet or to interview prominent figures in the hockey community such as hockey legend Peter Bondra and Capitals majority team owner Ted Leonsis, and four-team ice hockey Olympic medalist and world champion Angela Ruggiero; and to contribute to the Scarlet Blog, the first women's initiative in the NHL to attract more women to the Capitals and to ice hockey.
I think a blog is the perfect tool for networking and self-discovery. Anyone who wants to blog should pick a topic – a niche – that they are passionate about to establish credibility and start writing.
How did you begin blogging? Who (or what) influenced or inspired you? What has blogging brought to your life? We want to know! Send your post to staff@blackweblogawards.com in text (500 words or less), audio, or video, and we’ll post them on the Black Weblog Awards blog! Visit our Blogging Story post for more information.
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Great story - you've definitely found your perfect niche