{"id":3734,"date":"2005-01-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/waiting-for-someone-to-tap-me-on-the-shoulder\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:31:09","slug":"waiting-for-someone-to-tap-me-on-the-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/waiting-for-someone-to-tap-me-on-the-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came upon a colleague&#8217;s web site yesterday. He works in a completely different business line and office than I do, so it would seem unlikely that I&#8217;d ever see his blog. If it weren&#8217;t for the fact that I read wide and far on subjects that are completely outside my job description, I wouldn&#8217;t have found it. Macro economics? Yes. I&#8217;ve been reading about the current account problem. Mea culpa.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, since very few of my co-workers blog, I took the opportunity to call him and ask a few questions about his experiences with blogs and the benefits\/problems he saw with blogs in our workplace.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing he said to me was, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder and ask what the hell I was doing.&#8221; So, what the hell has he been doing? Building web traffic for his and our organization&#8217;s research, having discussions about economic issues, building a dialog with colleagues, exploring the possibilities of this medium and the implications for how we run our sites. He came to many of the same conclusions that I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogs increase our accountability while building our reputation<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a better way to publicize research<\/li>\n<li>Discussion about our research with the public is healthy<\/li>\n<li>Easier to find out what&#8217;s important to our audience(s)<\/li>\n<li>Improves the way we communicate (less academic, more conversational)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also agreed on many of the downsides to actively doing this in our organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reputational risk caused by negative comments<\/li>\n<li>People in power who do not use the web and don&#8217;t see the value of blogs<\/li>\n<li>Perceived technical barriers (though he admitted it was easy to set one up)<\/li>\n<li>Remaining politically neutral\/not advocating policy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m encouraged to see this blog in the wild because it means that our organization&#8217;s policies haven&#8217;t hemmed in this creative avenue. It&#8217;s a sign of positive change that I can build on&#8230;until someone taps me on the shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came upon a colleague&#8217;s web site yesterday. He works in a completely different business line and office than I do, so it would seem unlikely that I&#8217;d ever see his blog. If it weren&#8217;t for the fact that I read wide and far on subjects that are completely outside my job description, I wouldn&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}