« Alan AtKisson at Earth Charter | Main | Blogging Enterprise » Identity Crisis: Onward, through the Fog! ... with or without the penguins!At today's Blogging Enterprise conference, I'm appearing as a 'citizen journalist.' In the new book Blog! by David Kline and Dan Burstein, I'm interviewed as an 'activist blogger,' but Weblogsky is listed as a 'business and finance' blog. In my work as a consultant, I focus on web strategy and information design. I've also been guilty of occasional futurist planning and thinking, economic development work, and event coordination, and at Weblogsky I blog about... dang near anything that piques my interest. It all seems to fit from where I'm sitting, but it's probably confusing to everybody else. I'm remembering Oat Willie's battle cry... "Onward, through the fog!" (Which incidentally gets 282,000 hits from Google,.. though only 322 hits show proper attribution. One thing I didn't do very well was attempt to coordinate a Penguin Day for Austin this Friday, (with a San Antonio event the next day coordinated by my colleagues and pals Dean McCall of SalsaNet and George Cisneros of Urban 15. Penguin Day brings nonprofits together with Open Source developers, the primary goal being to get nonprofits the kind of information they need in order to adopt and/or better use Open Source software. I made the mistake of thinking that, if we built it here in Austin, the nonprofits would come, it would just be a matter of getting the word out. Wrong assumption; only a handful signed up, and I realize we need to lay some groundwork so that the nonprofits will have a better idea what we're talking about and why they should care. Dean and George did a better job of that... so we're postponing the Austin event and focusing on San Antonio. If you want to help build support for the Austin Penguin Day, which will probably happen in February, let me know. jon posted this at 6:49 AM |
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