In this series of blog posts at Chinwag Jobs, we present Secret Diary of a Freelancer, brought to you as part of Xchangeteam’s Freelancer of the Year 2008 awards.

Welcome to my secret diary. It’s secret because I want to be candid and give you the inside track on what my life is like as a freelance gun for hire. It’s warts an’ all but hopefully inspiring in the main, highlighting the highs and the lows of my profession. We freelancers are the future: hear it here first.

Alive and kicking

Our digital marketing freelancer is forging on with her blog – despite blogging’s recent demise

If you hadn’t noticed –  blogging is dead, apparently.

This one ain’t. And great as it is, twitter is just not going to accommodate my wisdom (ahem). The postings are too short, not enough leg room for my interior thoughts, incisive observations and industry insights.

Hearing about the death of the blog, for a digital marketer, is a bit like accountants hearing about the death of the spreadsheet. Spreadsheets are hardly the hottest item in the business armoury, but nonetheless manipulating them is what beancounters do: I imagine being told they are defunct would be a bit of a blow.

Likewise, I, as a digital marketer, use blogs in multiple ways. I now star in (this) one, I advise my clients to star in their own and then I read a bunch of other blogtastic worthies to find out what we should be blogging about so as to encourage my clients to join the conversation and leave comments.

Therefore being told they are demised, deceased (cue Monty Python bores) is not altogether good news. Yes, I know that twitter is the Next Big Thing and we media lone wolves have to be ahead of the curve as always, dear reader… tweet, tweet. But blogging, like the trusty spreadsheet, simply does and probably for a long time to come has a place.

So I blog on! Convinced Web blogging is an art form just maturing, not dying. I’m living proof.

And finally, a message to Steph, my colleague in arms, great to hear from you – and that it’s great to know you too share the same freelance enthusiasm and drives. From where you are standing there’s nothing to be ashamed of, I agree. But the lack of common understanding of the lot of the self-employed can be frustrating. We lack a voice in many respects … despite my own vociferous one!

Keep on truckin’. And bloggin’.