Skip to main content

Naked Conversations: Corporate Blog Tip #10 (get out in the real world)

Robert hits on a good point on the Naked Conversations blog (yikes! I was just about to call it the Naked Couch).

Two years ago, when one of the conferences were being set up to talk about blogging, I posted about why I thought blogging was the perfect way to cut down on conferencing. Ted Roche immediately whacked me over the head on that.

And in reading Robert's post, I can certainly agree. I missed out on DevCon this year due to some family issues and home life makes it difficult to travel (try finding a good home-sitter for 2 sick dogs) - for that reason I generally don't get out much.

But I would certainly hope people don't see the blog as a one-dimensional view of me. There's the FoxShow, OttawaPodcasts, my other news blog and more. But I also listened to Julie Leung's talk at Gnomedex and appreciate that too - there must be a separation. I have some public personal , blogs, some business blogs, and I also have some private ones.

But I do like the idea of photoblogs and moblogs - I love that Blogger now offers it - I wish they could extend it to the entire North American area.

You can also choose to participate in a network - I'm on TechPodcasts.com

You may also choose to take a page out of Lloyd's book and do sound seeing tours.

But for right now, my easiest way to talk to me directly is via email, blogs or Skype (akselsoft).

Naked Conversations: Corporate Blog Tip #10 (get out in the real world)

Comments

Vlad said…
Very inspiring and helpful. Thank you so much for sharing this great blog.

Popular posts from this blog

Blogs and RSS come to Microsoft.com

MS has just introduced their portal and it's pretty comprehensive. Nothing quite like learning that some people use AIM instead of MSN messenger, or that there really may be a need for supporting 4 monitors ( Cyrus Complains ) However, it's really a great sign that MS is serious about supporting the blogging community which seems to have um, exploded in size in the past year. Blogs and RSS come to Microsoft.com

Programmers vs. Developers vs. Architects

I received an email this morning from Brandon Savage 's newsletter. Brandon's a PHP guru (works at Mozilla) but his newsletter and books have some great overall perspectives for developers of all languages. However, this last one (What's the difference between developers and architects?) kind of rubs me the wrong way. Either that, or I've just missed the natural inflation of job descriptions. (maybe, it's like the change in terminology between Garbage man and Waste Engineer or Secretary and Office Administrator) So maybe it's just me - but I think there's still a big difference between Programmer, Developer and then of course, architect. The key thing here is that every role has a different perspective and every one of those perspectives has value. The original MSF create roles like Product Manager, Program Manager, Developer, Tester, etc - so every concept may pigeon hole people into different roles. But the statements Brandon makes are often distinction

FoxInCloud Stats

FoxInCloud sent this link a while back about their statistics regarding visits to their site: http://foxincloud.com/blog/2017/12/27/VFP-community-lessons-from-foxincloud-site.html What's interesting here is the breakdown of people. Yes, I think it's understandable that the Fox community is getting older. Another factor is the growth of the mobile and web environments taking over development. These environments really do push people towards the newer non-SQL or free SQL/hosted environments but more towards hosted storage options like Amazon and Google. A tool like FoxInCloud that helps MOVE existing applications to the cloud inherently competes with those environments. But FoxInCloud also allows developers to extend their application further by giving them a starting point using Javascript and the basic CSS (such as Bootstrap). If you're not rebuilding your application from scratch, it's certainly a great step forward. FoxPro VFP