Do you have any idea how much time I spend here at my keyboard, blogging my little heart out? On an average day I spend 12-14 hours either blogging or doing blogging-related activities such as research and networking, which help me be a better blogger. I do this because there are a number of traits that are part of being a good blogger and it is my goal to acquire as many of those traits and integrate them into my blogging life.

Though being a speedy typist isn’t necessary to be a good blogger it helps in that it frees you up to do more of the things that you may want to do online that are not blogging. Yes! I’m speaking of taking the occasional break to surf!

Truth is, I’m not a fast typist, even though I passed a typing class back in high school in the old days when there were no computer labs. In my rural Connecticut high school there were no computers whatsoever and even though a typewriter keyboard and a computer keyboard are very similar, by the time I’d switched I was fully mired in my 40 wpm keyboard abilities.

Though I may have improved somewhat I’m still by no stretch a fast typist; I spend extra hours every single day staring at the screen, typing my fingers to their nubs (I exaggerate only slightly). Would I welcome with open arms a way that would, in essence free me from this daily drudgery? That can help me type up to 150 words per minute? Of course I would! It would completely change my quality of life! I am not exaggerating. I maintain four blogs in which the quality of my work is assessed and one blog for my own enjoyment and networking. Sadly, by the time I get done with all the composing and typing on my first four blogs the last one–my “fun” one often goes ignored.

Would I like to find a way to be more productive but spend less time in doing so? That question seems like a no-brainer but I’ll answer anyway: Oh heck, yeah!

If I utilized Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Preferred I could do this and more.

Besides making higher-quality use of my time, I could dive in and get to the true juicy bits of a topic. Often, I’ll be writing about something or someone and I have much more to say but time issues prevent me from doing so.  Sometimes I have the time but my wrists, after spending so much time at the keyboard just flake out on me and so what could be a really good written piece is only just good. I’m quite particular about what I put “out there” into the blogosphere and it is truly a compromise that I do not like to make when I cut a written piece short for the above-mentioned reasons.

Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard is the newest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking. I’ve seen Dragon Naturally Speaking’s earlier Version 9 in action several times and I’m simply blown away at how easy to use and how accurately it reflects the speaker’s dialogue. You can see for yourself in the two videos in this post (above and below).

It’s pretty rare that I get this excited about a product but this one seems custom-made for me as a full-time blogger. After you watch the videos be sure to read the  NY Times Review of DNS10 and see what the reviewers from this prestigious publication are saying about Dragon Naturally Speaking.

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