Why?

March 25, 2008 by Kevin.Haas.

This is my first blog posting. So bear with me.

I thought the best way to start off would be to say “why do a blog?” There are a few reasons. First, it’s clear to me that the whole blogging thing is a great way to make your individual mark. Sure, I did tease bloggers at the time this whole “movement” started up, but it is a nice way to make public statements without hurdles and limits. This “internet” thing is pretty great, once you use it a bit.

When I did some work out on the west coast, the company I worked with really supported the idea of public communication with things like blogs. I like this concept. While I may agree that more information is not always better, the idea that organizations want their employees to share ideas in a public forum is great. It allows all kinds of people to contribute to the dialog, no matter who they are. And you never know where the next great idea may come from.

Also, I’m using this as a mechanism to improve my writing. As we increasingly work independently, face-to-face interactions are not as common as they are when worked together in the same location. Technology has enabled this, but we must remain vigilant not to let this isolate us. We need to take advantage of technology’s ability to allow us to communicate and share ideas, not just to allow independent thought. By better being able to communicate in this medium, I hope that I can contribute to the greater dialogue.

There’s just so many of us, each doing our own part. It’s nice to think that if we each recorded these thoughts and that we could access and share them, we could do something together that we never could have done separately.

And you never know. This might be the seed of the next great American novel.

Well that’s it for my first post. I’ll try not to wax so philosophical on my next posting. I did want to just lay some foundations out there so you know where I’m coming from, and where we can go together.

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