To Blog, or not to Blog? Well, why not?
A friend of mine recently told me about a blog she’d started to discuss VoIP. When I tried to search for it I was amazed to discover she was near the top of Google’s list. She felt that there was a need for a woman’s point of view on the VoIP technology and obviously she was correct.
”You should try this, Kath,” she told me. “This is your medium.”
I had never before considered creating a blog. The blogs I have read (admittedly, a very few of the many available) have either been shocking, distressingly personal, or dull. But before I dismissed the idea entirely, I remembered one I’d seen recently about creating passionate users of software.
The authors of that blog were speaking my language. Which is what? Although I work in a technical field, I’m neither an IT expert nor a programmer. I speak for the users of the software we build and it is sometimes a lonely position.
I love tech. I love new toys that are technical. I’m fascinated by how things are designed and angered when design is not well done. And I love words and writing. Maybe my friend was right about this being my medium.
I’ll do my best not to be shocking, distressingly personal, or dull.