How blogging has impacted my work

So Kyle James wants to know how blogging has impacted my work. I honestly don't think that it has. Isn't that kind of like the tail wagging the dog? I would be doing the work I'm doing regardless of whether or not I blogged about it later. I almost view work as separate from blogging. My job is to advise my "clients" on their web, email and e-marketing strategy and to produce collateral material to help them execute their strategies. My advice and execution of my job functions are not going to be affected by whether or not I think it will make for good blogging later.

I wrote a manifesto a while back about why I blog. I think a few of the points are relevant here. I primarily blog as a way to wrap my head around a particular thing that I'm working on at the time. In that way, I suppose it has affected my work because it's my method of preparation and assessment. But I could just as easily do that in a private forum. I choose to do it this way because I believe in free sharing of information within my professional community will ultimately benefit the group as a whole. I would kill for there to be a true aggregater of ALL blogging content produced by higher ed web practitioners. If you work in higher ed on the web in any form and you are daring enough to write about what you do publicly and your opinions on it, you're in no questions asked. At that point, it becomes a tool for all of us to learn from each others experiences and maybe question our own perspectives. What an amazing resource that would be for everyone.

I don't know if I answered Kyle's question (I suppose I kind of nullified it within my first few sentences), but that's the best answer I can give as to why blogging is important to me professionally.