For those expecting a technology blog today, you can skip this posting.
The most common comment I get from people reading my blog is “thanks for the original content”. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Many of us are tired of “me too” postings. Reposting Youtube, reposting of this, reposting of that. Why is this? Why is there essentially a culture of copy out there? What can we do to fix it? Many of my readers are recruiters. Well, if you are a recruiter then you must recruit or better yet, adopt a blogger.
What stops someone who has much to say… from saying it? As easy as setting up a WordPress blog is, it will stop most non-technical people in their tracks.
I was having a discussion with Dan Hughes, one of the people who helped build and grow Broadlook Technologies with me. Dan wants to blog. Dan did not know where to start. We even thought of a name for his site (The Sales Trench). Weeks later, no blog. So I’m adopting Dan. I registered SalesTrench.com, installed WordPress for him and configured it.
Adoption is not a one time event.
I will be pestering the heck out of Dan to get some of his great ideas down. Right now, the site is empty, so, Dan, you are out there, the world is waiting, now you have to write.
Dan and I talk almost every day, he can’t escape. I’ll be a blog-parent until he flies from the nest. Dan, happy birthday. Have fun with the site!
Call to bloggers
Who will you adopt? Can you think of someone with great ideas that really should be writing them down? Adopt them, help them, encourage them, pester them if you must. More unique content will lift us all. Send me a note about your adoption.
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Awwwww…………………..I want to be adopted…..I’ve got some ideas!
The suspense is killing me….did Dan write anything yet?
HA
I need to get off my (*& and start a blog as well. Which of you established bloggers will adopt me?
I would be one guilty of “reposting” stuff – with links to it, of course! The reason I do this is that I don’t have an original thought in my head – and sometimes picking someone’s else’s content up and running with it a little ways helps to elicit some small fresh thought or direction in my own understanding.
ESPECIALLY when someone picks up on it and wants to discuss it! How fun!
I find reading a wide array of content gets my toes (and fingers) tapping. Every so often something original comes out of it.
Adopting someone is a great idea – I don’t know though, how grateful, after some time they’re going to be, being harangued. “Cause that’s what I feel like I’ve done to a few people and if they’re not ready – they’re just not ready!
Many people are reticent about posting a response online, let alone blogging. I have seen many good bloggers appear on the scene and then fade away – I think Animal posted a “Whatever in the world happened to…” post a ways back and it was interesting.
I wrote a series a week or so back related to this subject – it was called “Get a Group, Get a Blog, Get a Website”. You can read the series here: http://tinyurl.com/33by8h
Ecclesiastes 1:9-14 NIV What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. {10} Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. {11} There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow. {12} I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. {13} I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! {14} I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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