When blogging was in its infancy I sometimes used to think that a lot of organisations were fairly slow on the uptake regarding its potential for use within a commercial environment. Now that the massmarket has caught up with regards to social sites I wonder whether the audience's attention is elsewhere, especially now that the majority are happily ensconced within the walled community of Facebook (the collapsed community of Warwick Blogs being a case in point). In a way its a shame, as the Web2.0 software has come on leaps and bounds since those early days, and the architects are obviously trying to incorporate as many social and sharing options as possible. But as an open and transparent channel for communication and sometimes feedback, when approached right blogs can still be important, whether the audience be internal, external, or more of a personal aide-mémoire.
My summary in five words (two of which are the same): Less personal, more scope, more professional
Showing posts with label thing 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thing 2. Show all posts
Friday, 14 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
New Year, New Blog
As has been mentioned elsewhere, the most difficult part of setting up a new blog so far has been finding a good blog title. Having toyed with all sorts of naffness (“Hurley’s Penultimate Number” anyone?) I gave up, returning to default ageing geek mode...
I started blogging way back in 2003, and it became a pretty time-intensive part of who I was (sad, I know!). Since then spare time has dwindled to almost nothing, and I do feel like I’ve let a part of me fade away. It’ll be interesting to see whether this rekindles the fire (especially now its easier to do these things on mobile devices), or whether the explosion of other social media resources has rendered personal macroblogging a spent force (not that I’ve really found the time to do anything other than tinker at the sidelines of all this modern jiggery-pokery in recent years…)
Sob… I used to spend hours doing this stuff. Back then it was all fields round here… Cascading Style Sheets were but a twinkle in a blogger’s eye – we were all html-monkeys back then. Now I’m all in the dark – but looking forward to being illuminated.
Anyway, as requested in Thing 2.3, I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to acquaint myself with a whole host of new Web 2.0 goodness, and to see what's changed over the years - as it is I only really touch on some of these sites whenever the need arises rather than by choice! I've already got a horribly decrepit iGoogle page attached to one of my other Google accounts (not updated in a long LONG time), I used to be a very active Flickr user before parenthood intervened, and I've done little more than dabble in Google Docs, Twitter and the like. But as with most new technology we end up using it without even realising it, so it should be interesting to step back and see...
I started blogging way back in 2003, and it became a pretty time-intensive part of who I was (sad, I know!). Since then spare time has dwindled to almost nothing, and I do feel like I’ve let a part of me fade away. It’ll be interesting to see whether this rekindles the fire (especially now its easier to do these things on mobile devices), or whether the explosion of other social media resources has rendered personal macroblogging a spent force (not that I’ve really found the time to do anything other than tinker at the sidelines of all this modern jiggery-pokery in recent years…)Sob… I used to spend hours doing this stuff. Back then it was all fields round here… Cascading Style Sheets were but a twinkle in a blogger’s eye – we were all html-monkeys back then. Now I’m all in the dark – but looking forward to being illuminated.
Anyway, as requested in Thing 2.3, I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to acquaint myself with a whole host of new Web 2.0 goodness, and to see what's changed over the years - as it is I only really touch on some of these sites whenever the need arises rather than by choice! I've already got a horribly decrepit iGoogle page attached to one of my other Google accounts (not updated in a long LONG time), I used to be a very active Flickr user before parenthood intervened, and I've done little more than dabble in Google Docs, Twitter and the like. But as with most new technology we end up using it without even realising it, so it should be interesting to step back and see...
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