Reason number 45

A few months ago I blogged a list of 44 reasons I blog.  I just stumbled across reason number 45 as I prepare for a speech.
My job (your job, anyone’s job who talks to customers or donors or board members or the media or just about anyone) is to create and to tell stories.  Stories [...]

Someday…

…I’ll be a week ahead on blog posts.
I meant that day to be today, but it’s not. And I’m going on vacation.
This is the kind of thing that should stay behind the curtain for you as a reader.
Next time.
Happy summer.

I missed you

Between trying to catch up on work and a publishing glitch this morning, there was a gap in my blog posts.
I was talking to one blog reader yesterday who said, “What happened?  You didn’t post today.”
That’s great news.  If you want to influence, if you want to lead, if you want to have voice and [...]

Don’t forget

Everything you write online (email, blog, twitter, text) can and will get anywhere else in an instant.  This isn’t news, but ask yourself:  do I write EVERY email/blog/tweet assuming that the people who are closest to this can and probably will read and share what I’m writing?
This isn’t just about search and the fact that [...]

Twitter echelons

I recently was talking to a friend who I consider to be successful on Twitter: he has cracked 10,000 followers in a few months, tweets regularly, and his tweets regularly get picked up (retweeted) and cause a stir.
From his perspective, he’s a long way from the top of the Twitter foodchain, where people have hundreds [...]

I’m beginning to wonder

If blogging is “here is what I think.”
Is Twitter “here is what I think is interesting?”
Very different, both influential.
(Food for thought: why is it so much easier to get Twitter followers than blog subscribers? Does it feel like a smaller commitment to follow someone on Twitter? Does that mean that in the endgame [...]

Ski bum insight

A few months ago, I had arthroscopic surgery on my knee.  This was my first surgery since a 1993 ski injury, when, younger and without much good sense, I skied off a marked “cliff area” that had no snow, and partially tore my ACL while causing considerable cartilage damage.
Four months ago, after my surgery, I [...]

44 reasons I blog

“Why do you blog?”
I get the question a lot.  So here’s a list.  I originally wanted to come up with 99 reasons, but 44 is where I ended up.
(If you have serious additions to the list please comment and I’ll approve.  I’d still like to get to 99, and if I do I’ll repost the [...]

Know enough

You don’t have to know everything to start something.  You just have to know enough, and be willing to let the other pieces fall into place over time.  In the act of doing you’ll learn how to do “it” better and you’ll learn more about what “it” is.
For example, it’s taken until now for me [...]

10 things I knew nothing about a year ago

Here’s a short list of things 10 things I knew absolutely nothing about at the start of 2008, before I started writing this blog:

What an RSS feed is / how it works
The differences between Bloglines and Google Reader
Which is better: WordPress or Blogspot
The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
Technorati rankings
What a trackback is, and whether they [...]