Feb 2, 2006 | blog
While I ramble a bit on this post, I’m using IE7 Beta 2. Looking good, and an improvement over previous betas. I’m not posting here much, but am staying busy on my other blogs.
The new features added to Spaces is nice, but it still is not camparable to professional blogging software like WordPress (I’m convinced its the best).
Busy at work, busy at home, busy trying to launch Rick 2.0 (warning geek humor), and finding that there is just not enough time in the day. Many challenges at work, many projects that I’m all of a sudden becoming the Project Manager on – be carefull of what you wish for.
The challenges are great because it allows me to grow and learn every day (sometimes every minute!), and keeps pushing the boundaries that I thought werer further down the path for me professionally. More and more I wonder if just limiting myself to IT is the answer to my professional growth. Of course its not, but a person is hesitant to make too many changes or too drastic a change as it is uncomfortable to think of failing.
At any rate, its fun to be challenged!
Jan 26, 2006 | blog
I was quite surprised today when an IT Mgmt staff member asked a few of us about blogging! This is really interesting, as there are many reasons for our company to set up both an external blogging presence, and an internal one as well. There are many simple Mgmt –> employee communications that could be done through a short blog post. There are many things employees can communicate to each other and different departments instead of mass emails that many don’t read. Notifications from HR or IT could be done in this fasion as well for non-critical items. Blogging in general is simply one more way for people and companies to communicate. With the use of XML feed technologies such as RSS and ATOM, any user can have a constant stream of news being fed to their computer so they don’t have to go surf the ‘Net for it.
Can’t wait to see if anything comes of this – its an interesting year at my company, lots of opportunity for new things.
Jan 26, 2006 | blog
Its been awhile since I’ve posted here on my space – I’ve been very busy with work and am really starting to favor WordPress over MSN Spaces and Blogger (see
Rick’s Ramblings and
Rickster). There just seems to be more flexibility in both those environments than Spaces has to offer. Especially WordPress – I’ve really fallen for its power and ease of use. The extensibility is fantastic as well. Blogger has some good customization options, and integration with Google’s AdSense program is cool, though I understand Spaces has just added a similar feature.
I guess overall, it just is a simple thing of Spaces seeming to be a "starter" blogging service, and something like WordPress a much more mature platform. I’ll still keep this blog updated periodically, but my main posting will probably end up on the WordPress blog – I may change my domain to point there as well just to make it easier to find.
Jan 22, 2006 | blog
Well now that Naked Conversations is available, I’m getting motivated to investigate WordPress a bit more. Its more powerful for blogging than just about any other blogging software that I’m aware of, but I’m not certain how it would benefit me over Blogger at this time.
I’ve moved from MSN Spaces, which I still think is interesting, to Blogger – but wonder if WordPress would allow me to create the blogging experience that I’m after. Blogger has captured most of it, but more flexibility would be nice.
Anyway, the book mentioned above is written by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, and really is making a case for business blogging – check out the reviews at Amazon for more information on why people are thinking its important. I think I’ll order the book, I’ve been reading Robert’s blog for about a year and find it interesting. Congratulations to both on their latest achievement!
Dec 24, 2005 | blog
Well I’ve updated the site to include some Dell Small Business links. Interesting program from Dell, similar to Google’s AdSense program in a way. We’ll see how it goes, and if it has the desired affect.
UPDATE (1/29/2011): The content mentioned above has been removed.
