Why?
27th March 2008 by David North
So why am I doing this now? I’ve been in the web industry for getting on 10 years and I’ve never, I repeat never had my own website let alone a blog that tends to require an ongoing effort of writing eloquently written entries (yeah right - I am from Somerset you know).
The first reason is a couple of people I work with - Mark Steadman of Bluemilkshake fame and Kevin Rapley or DigiKev as he likes to be known. Apart from making my working day more bearable by being the target of my many rants or unprovoked expletives they are also great for bouncing ideas off. Their encouragement is probably the main reason I’m actually putting some of my rants into words rather than just leaving their ears ringing! Not that it’ll keep me quiet unfortunately for them.
However not wanting to leave the boys in too much of an open position when I’m looking to blame someone when I need to write a blog entry and haven’t really got the time - why else would this be happening after all this time?
Maybe recently my priorities in life have changed, certainly my impending fatherhood makes you look at things differently. So rather than just working during the week for various clients I need to take the time to further my own online presence.
Another major reason for setting up a blog specifically is the whole social media movement - it’s about time I practiced what I preach to companies. This is going to be an even bigger year for social media no matter what the doomsayers are shouting - it’s just going to mature.
Confidence is another issue as for some unfathomable reason I’m quite happy to dispense recommendations during my working week (which I would hope work) but haven’t really had the confidence to publish these thoughts online for fear of being attacked. Why this is the case I’m not sure as I do have strong beliefs and I do love a good argument!
It’s also true that Mark’s New Media Junkie podcast that I sometimes make an appearance on has also boosted this confidence - if I can get away with cannibalism here what have I got to worry about?
So here is the first post of hopefully many - rant on.
Well it is about time! It is great to see you getting started with this Dave and this is a very well crafted first post, I knew you were able to string a sentence or two together.
Well I get a chance to review it before posting here not like the unrecognisable drivel that I spout most days!