Tuning up the site #1
This is one of those updates that may not wow you if you’ve been following the site for a while, but which I think will help make it more useful for new readers.
I’ve been writing www.succeedsocially.com for about two and a half years. I’ve put up around 75 articles. At the time I wrote each article, I was focused mainly on whatever points I wanted to get across for that topic.
If you take the site as a whole though, it’s gotten a little messy as the articles have accumulated. Themes that should be more prominent are scattered all over the place. Some ideas get repeated too often. Some articles discuss too many things at once and would be better off split up.
I felt it was time to go through the entire site and give it a clean up to try to make it more organized and cohesive. This will take me a while, but I’ve grouped the changes I need to make into rough batches. I’ll update the site when I get a ‘batch’ done.
A new article, based on a question I get asked fairly often:
How Long Does It Take To Improve Your Social Skills?
Some of the material at the end is moved over from an older article called Overall Attitudes That Will Help You Improve Your People Skills. That one has had some new concepts added to it.
The importance of practicing gets its own article:
Directly Practice Your Social Skills To Improve Them
The idea of there being no magic shortcut gets it’s own article too:
There’s No Quick, Effortless Way To Improve Your Social Skills
The article My Take On Social Skills And How To Improve Them was really three things at once. The original is gone now. First, it was about why I created the site. That’s in its own article now:
Next it talks about what social skills are. Maybe I’ll write about that one day. Lastly, it gave some general principles for how to improve. That should be coming fairly soon.
I’m working on this site-wide overhaul straight through until it’s done. I’ll post the next batch of updates as soon as I can.
February 22, 2009
