Blogging and Meetings. What is the connect?
Blogging as a phenomena is old enough to have developed its own rules of behaviour.
Well, it is nice that some standards have developed, but I am not happy about all the expectations.
Let me digress.
About 10 years ago, I offered to help out a committee of a professional association I belonged to at the time. I said, I volunteer to do anything at all that you need done but do not ask me to attend meetings. Of course, I was asked to attend meetings. First it was about working out what needed to be done. But thereafter meeting attendance was an expectation of volunteering.
Everybody hates meetings. I researched this and prepared a workshop on how to have effective meetings. So I find it difficult to sit through a meeting that is dawdling, dragging, or imploding. Don't ask me to be there.
Back to blogging. I want to support other bloggers that I enjoy reading. But do not ask me to do the memes, the lists of 5 things that blah-blah, and so on. Do not ask me to take up your theme for the month.
Appreciate the fact that I am a subscriber and that I read you everyday--whether you know that or not.
So, for the record, I don't like the fact that you are not considered a member of the blogging community if you do not play along and meet the expectations of other bloggers. I am just trying to meet the needs of my own readers.
Well, it is nice that some standards have developed, but I am not happy about all the expectations.
Let me digress.
About 10 years ago, I offered to help out a committee of a professional association I belonged to at the time. I said, I volunteer to do anything at all that you need done but do not ask me to attend meetings. Of course, I was asked to attend meetings. First it was about working out what needed to be done. But thereafter meeting attendance was an expectation of volunteering.
Everybody hates meetings. I researched this and prepared a workshop on how to have effective meetings. So I find it difficult to sit through a meeting that is dawdling, dragging, or imploding. Don't ask me to be there.
Back to blogging. I want to support other bloggers that I enjoy reading. But do not ask me to do the memes, the lists of 5 things that blah-blah, and so on. Do not ask me to take up your theme for the month.
Appreciate the fact that I am a subscriber and that I read you everyday--whether you know that or not.
So, for the record, I don't like the fact that you are not considered a member of the blogging community if you do not play along and meet the expectations of other bloggers. I am just trying to meet the needs of my own readers.
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11:45 AM
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