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Blogosphere, Career Style
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Daily and broadcast journalists are trained to report hard news that embraces the serious topics and events of the day. Everything else is considered soft news. Both hard and soft news, however, are based upon facts.
Then there are the blogs, which have ascended to a powerful information source for millions of people. Blogs reside in the growing blogosphere. A blog is a Web diary--one person’s take on a subject.
The blogosphere encompasses thousands of blogs on the vast Internet. One blogger described it as “the aggregate by-product of a mass of undiluted conversations.” According to online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the term “blogosphere” (a made-up word that combines “blog” and “stratosphere”) was coined by Brad L. Graham on Sept. 10, 1999 (a bit of useless knowledge to impress your friends…).
There are no requirements or prerequisites to write and launch a blog. You don’t have to be a journalist or a writer, you need no credentials, degrees or certifications, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re right or wrong. If you have something to say, the Internet is a ready-made platform for you to air it in, and the blog is your medium.
How does it all relate to the workplace, your career--specifically, the IT universe? To everything? Who would have guessed that blogs …
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