I was at a friend’s house last week. I was talking to a group of guys who were all in telecom. They all read BearOnBusiness and one of them was so daring as to have written a few comments. I asked them if they read Telecom Ramblings .
"What’s that?", they asked.
"It’s another telecom blog," I said with a tone of surprise. If they read my blog, how could they not have discovered this? Given how they like to banter about telecom, why wouldn’t they read this daily? Silly me. I assumed way too much.
"Where would we find it?" they asked. I guess it was not much more than a year ago that I might have asked the same question, though the question left me perplexed.
"Look at my blogroll," I answered. They responded with looks of confusion.
"Google Telecom Ramblings," I offered and they understood. I added: "Then you can put it on your blog reader," which lost them.
Here is the point. Do you want to get ahead at Zayo ? Figure out what blogs you should read on a daily basis. Get signed up with a reader–I use Google’s reader and recommend it. Write comments on the various blogs so that you understand what it is like to be part of the blogosphere. If you want to really be hot shit, guest post on Sandi’s blog , my blog, or on Envysion’s managedvideoblog.com .
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Dan,
If it makes you feel any better, I read your blog every day, and I know several of several other telecom or DWDM professionals that now do so as well. You may not see us on your page hit counts, but we are here on RSS, or via consolidator pages, or even via Google RSS alerts.
Sincerely,
Ray
p.s.- By the way, we read both Rob and Darren’s blogs as well. Please don’t tell them that though, ha! Make them earn their RSS feeds!
Wow, thanks for the free publicity Dan! FWIW, I spent years thinking that blogging was some bizarre fad, now I can’t imagine life without it. It just opens the door on so many conversations and new ideas I’d never have otherwise. – Rob
Ray, it does make me feel better. I enjoy blogging but at times it feels like work. Getting feedback like what you offered is what inspires me to continue.
Rob, I’m sorry. Did you mistake the publicity I gave you as “free”? There is a cost for everything. Now you need to say something nice about Zayo or Envysion in your blog.
Haha, yes Dan actually it’s still free that way since I would do it anyway, I’m planning to ramble on a bit about salesforce.com versus in-house development before too long.
No disrespect meant, but I think you must think people have more time on their hands than they do. How else would you describe you’re being perplexed and their confusion? For me, family, work and life comes first. Then a person needs sleep. What if someone is already working 12+ hours a day? To stay ahead, they need to spend more time reading daily blogs? I guess if it’s part of work, but it doesn’t sound terribly enjoyable to me…
Dear SMS–I hate to be the one to break it to you, but it sounds like you need a life. “Doesn’t sound terribly enjoyable,” you say–maybe you need a personality as well. You strike me as the type who watches The View and complains to whoever will listen to you that you can’t believe people waste their time on such trivial matters. Then you are late picking up your kid from school because you can’t turn off the soap operas. Do you still drive-through McDonald’s five times a week to pick up cheese burgers for your kids? Thought so. Maybe you’d accomplish more if you didn’t sleep the other 12 hours a day. (P.S. to other readers as I don’t want to scare off commetns–I am just having fun with the person who wrote this….half of this comment I wrote while laughing on the phone with her.)
Well at least you didn’t correct my use of you’re. I think it should have been YOUR, but I was too sidetracked watching DAYS to catch it.
ps I’ve never watched the View a day in my life.
Next you come over; we are not discusssing blogs, telecom mergers, or poker. We used to waste away hours over a pint or two embellishing the past. Can we give that a try? Let’s talk about the glory days.
Ironically, I heard Glory Days on the radio yesterday. “Now I think I’m going down to the well tonight and I’m going to drink till I get my fill. And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it but I probably will. Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of, well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days.”