How Blogging Helps Your Career #10 – The Trophy Case

(The roundup for the “How Blogging Helps Your Career Series” is here)

Ever been in an interview and wondered how you prove you know what you’re doing in that short time?

Ever tried to convince someone of your competence if, say, you’re trying to run a convention or help them with a project?

Ever wonder how, in the end, we can kind of ever prove in a few minutes that we’re good at things?  Because it seems way, way too much of our life involves that.  If you’ve ever been on the job search or tried to justify a promotion, you know what that’s like.

We have to show wins.  We have to show proof.  This is one reason I try and end every in-person interview by giving someone a copy of one of my books, because it’s hard to say “you can’t do project management” when I can self publish.*

The proof in many cases has to come quick, fast and solid.

That’s your blog.  Your blog is a trophy case.

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Dead Blogs, Sadness, and Concepts

So I’ve been looking for information on estimating methods for SCRUM.  Yes, I’m sure that sounds unexciting to most people, but really this is something PM’s and SCRUM masters nearly get into fisticuff’s over.  Oh, you think hours are going to work, don’t bet on it . . .

So anyway, I dug up a blog that shall remain nameless, and it was filled with great stuff – and hadn’t been updated in 2 years, it’s creator’s twitter feed had posts every few months.  Yet it was filled with wisdom.

I guess I can consider it dead, but doesn’t that seem wrong?  I mean it has active, vital, useful information in it?

Somehow I think we need to rethink blogs.  Maybe they have to stop, and so be it, but is it really dead?  Is it dead if the information is good?  Is it dead if it has meaning?

Maybe we need to rethink blogs as part of something larger, of archiving, curating, creation.

Maybe we need to create metasites that archive old blog information for people.

Maybe we should “reincarnate content” as I mentioned earlier.

Blogs may be dead, but the information is alive.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

 

Some thoughts on 3d Printing

The latest news on 3D printing got my attention, so I have a few thoughts at Fan To Pro.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.