Jul
25
I attended the “nakedtruth / Madrona / Redfin / panel discussion / party” last night. (Not sure of the name, but thanks for the invite, Greg)
An interesting panel and a packed house with great people. The biggest take-away for me is that, yes, it’s time for me to stop ignoring our blog.
I’ve been avoiding it for two reasons: First, joining a company of all technologists means there’s a massive amount of work that needs to be done immediately. It made sense to be purely inwardly focused at first. There’s still no shortage of work to do, but as our Private Alpha is getting ready to go and we’re talking with more and more people, the time has come.
Second, the role of blogs had a mixed track record in our prior industry. Serials Solutions was (and I trust, still is) an industry leader in the library technology space. We innovated not just products, but ways of thinking about problems faced by librarians and patrons. This required following a lot of blogs. There are a few excellent, bell-weather blogs in the library industry, but there are too many that need to be tracked, but ultimately say nothing. This may be true across the board, but I’d rather not contribute to the problem with yet one more.
I guess we’ll just have to risk it. I’m officially joining in the mix…
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