Communication

I've heard the mind mapping term tossed about here and there for years, but I never really understood how it differed from plain old brainstorming from the days of yore. I felt my storming mind needed a little orderly mapping, and below I outline how that process unfolded.

In my Twitter vs. Productivity entry (published mere minutes before this one), I outlined how I tweaked my Twitter usage to use the tool more effectively.

For five months now I've hardly read the Twitter stream of those I follow on the service. Also, I rarely tweet on anything except when my blog software sends a notice of a new post (via the Drupal Twitter Module), much like the automation on most news service Twitter accounts. I've been enormously productive.

In his personal blog, Seth Godin writes a short piece about two very different types of blogs.

Okay, so a LOPSA colleague of mine,William Bilancio, had some suggestions about improving the interoperability of my blog to encourage other people to use the site interactively, like leaving comments. I followed his advice and went a step further. I enabled OpenID in Drupal as a start. People can now use any valid OpenID account they have to authenticate to my blog.

So, I'm catching up on neglected blog feeds while taking a break from heavy labor on the farm (for those who don't know: I have a small farm in rural Wisconsin, USA) while I sip coffee and contemplate whether I should really come up with a solid blogging strategy.

For a while now I've been observing and partaking in networking. Yes, of course computer based networks, but lately I've been thinking (and working) on human networking. It's been around far longer than computer systems, and most professions are much better at it than IT folks.

So, in the spirit of building the habit of posting, even if it isn't the long, thoughtful, well-researched pieces I so much love to read, as I said in my last post, I bring my stream of consciousness blog entry today.

So, apparently I have to rethink not whether I want to blog, because I think I made that mostly clear in the last post, but I have to rethink my process.

I thought about why I almost never post to this blog.

So, apparently trying that blogging thing didn't work so well in the last several months of chaos. So, I think we're back to a variation of the same question:

Why blog?