Recently I’ve found that I have more to say to an audience of fellow digital design and technology professionals. Actually, I’ve found that I have more to say about lots of things to lots of people. I’ve been posting long comments on other peoples’ blogs, chewing my colleagues ears off, tweeting lots. I think it’s time to have a home for my musings.
My dispersed blog contributions can be found on The Greater IBM Connection blog:
- Is social computing biting the heels of the enterprise (June, 2008)
- Searching for my civic life (January 2008)
- Career maintenance for a former IBMer (October, 2007)
...on Ed Brill’s blog post, Network World: Why freemail beats business e-mail (June 21, 2008)
...and on Len Devanna’s blog post, Social Software and CMS (July 2, 2008)
Back at the ranch, I started an affinity group focused on the post-sale customer experience, I’m also helping out with our mobile affinity group, am part of an emerging twitter sub-culture, and have been called a contrarian in our content strategy discipline. This will hopefully become clearer over time through my writing, but the umbrella business topic for me, I believe, is business culture and how we work.
Outside of work, I seem to have lots to say about this wondrous New York City, the blight of suburbia, citizenship, cats, garments, food, and fitness.
I drew inspiration for this blog from Abagond, who writes five hundred words a day on whatever he wants. In times past, I would have needed a focus, but something changed recently, and I think I can attribute part of it to Twitter. The constraints of the medium have caused me (maybe us) to be focused our communications in a new way -- maybe not new to the universe, but new as a community. We tweet about a wide range of topics, but always within some range of acceptable boundaries. Whatever those boundaries are, they're different from conventional business communications. As with Twitter, I hope for this space to help me get a better sense of what is blendable, and how:
- personal and work life
- personal friends and contemporaries / employer / client / former employer / future employer audiences
- my workouts and business culture
- citizenship and twitter
- technophilia and fashion
- ...
I know that all of this blending is widespread in digital media -- perhaps your blog is a great example. My hope is simply to connect the dots that emerge in my own mind. I have trains of thought that tie these particular topics to each other in ways that I think are interesting, and I hope to be able to articulate them well enough here to make a meaningful contribution to the public conversation. In other words, I'm just another blogger. Welcome, and thanks for reading.
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