What you say is really true, and I see the point come up on WoW blogging guides quite a bit. I would feel like somewhat of a hypocrite to give that advice myself, though, since I have a distinct pally-wow name and I love it. I know I’m not going to change my class in my time playing WoW, and if I change games, I’ll probably abandon this blog.

But if I were planning to write about a variety of games, I’d choose a name that reflects that. I’d probably just be the Bossy Giant Spoon or something…

I like that our CEGEP system pushes boundaries and forces us to think, but it can get a little weird. I remember doing a one-on-one verbal dissertation of an erotic poem to a teacher who was kind of pervy. The entire time I was thinking “Yes, I know what the author means by ‘ferns tickling our thighs’, no, I don’t want to tell you.“)

Tobold once told me don’t paint yourself into a corner with being to specific with your site. You may start off into WoW, but one day you might not play WoW at all.

I started off video gaming blogging with Warhammer online, had a pretty popular site called Way of the Chosen. (Mythic even included me in a live event), then one day I wasn’t play WAR anymore.

So I made a more general site…thus High Latency Life was born, cause I wanted it to be more about Geek Lifestyle then just one or two video games.

Promotion tools like Twitter and Facebook can help get the word out about your blog and alert your readers to new updates, but whether you need them or not depends on your goals. You don’t need them to have a decent sized, interactive audience, but if your goal is to see how popular you can make your blog, then the more advertising you do, the better.

Do you need to set up a Twitter account just for your blog? Of course not. Whether you should or not depends on you. Do you think your readers will be turned off by your personal tweets? Do you want your offline friends to know about your blog and read tweets about WoW? If none of that matters to you, you can use the same account for everything. In the WoW community, Twitter is more for socialization than anything else. Just make sure you have some info about your blog in your website and “about you” fields so the people you add to your follow list will know you’re Gabriel from Infernal Glory.

As for Facebook, it’s not used much by WoW bloggers. The podcasters seem to use it quite a bit, but not us bloggers. I think we tend to be a bit more private than other blogging communities. Even the World of Matticus facebook page, and Matt’s really big on the marketing game, only has 26 “likes”.

Wow – my school experience seems kind of boring in comparison, with having “The Iliad” and “To Kill A Mockingbird” as required reading!

I did do some moderate searching to see if anyone had taken it, but it seemed free of any prior use. Here’s hoping that doesn’t come back to bite me in the arse.

I’ve heard some of the ‘how to start that WoW blogging!’ guides say it was absolutely necessary to have a blog Twitter and/or Facebook going. Right now I’ve got it set up to pull from my personal twitter (which happens to share the same name as my author name, go me), but I’m wondering if it’s necessary to set up a completely new twitter account specifically for blog followers and shameless self-promotion. Or do you think running with what I have is the best bet?

I like your blog name. Now that I think about it, it fits you well. You’re very graceful and have a lot to talk about, but you’re not one to compete for the limelight. So your writing often does seem like you’re peaking out through the branches, sharing what you see.