Friday
Jun252010
Making Two Major Changes (EDUTech & No Comments)
Friday, June 25, 2010 at 5:37PM
As you might have noticed, I have been rather quiet this past week. This is not due to working too much (even though the 40+ hours a week are starting to get a lil' bit old), but it is rather due to a strategic realignment involving my blog and what I want to do with it.
First big change I am going to make is I am no longer going to focus specifically on tech/social media. It's too large of a niche, and I feel like I am this tiny voice amongst so many that my opinion really doesn't matter, and to be fair to myself, I have a much larger voice than many. Another problem is that I don't feel the passion that many people do about the topic, I am merely interested and enjoy keeping up while throwing in the occasional opinion.
So what will my new focus be?
Since I still thoroughly enjoy reading, participating, and commenting on technology, especially social media, I am going to integrate technology and my career path of choice which is to be a teacher into my writing. Basically, PAS is going to become an EDUTech blog. I am pretty excited about this, and it is an area that I can't wait to dig into more. I have a passion for education and a deep interest in tech, I can't see where I could possibly go wrong here.
My second big change I am going to make is disabling comments. It goes against every social fiber in my body, trust me, but I can't manage the spam/rude/unintelligent comments anymore, and I have decided since I can't dedicate the proper time to manage it, why bother with it? Instead, I am replacing the comments area with basically a big button that says "e-mail me". I live and breathe e-mail, and it is something I can efficiently manage. E-mail is also a lot more personal, which makes me that much more inclined to respond to someone. Plus, my content is syndicated on nearly every major platform, many of which allow you to comment, and I know many of my current, and probably future readers are active on. I have no problem jumping into these conversations.
Monday is when this all starts happening. I'm pumped :D
First big change I am going to make is I am no longer going to focus specifically on tech/social media. It's too large of a niche, and I feel like I am this tiny voice amongst so many that my opinion really doesn't matter, and to be fair to myself, I have a much larger voice than many. Another problem is that I don't feel the passion that many people do about the topic, I am merely interested and enjoy keeping up while throwing in the occasional opinion.
So what will my new focus be?
Since I still thoroughly enjoy reading, participating, and commenting on technology, especially social media, I am going to integrate technology and my career path of choice which is to be a teacher into my writing. Basically, PAS is going to become an EDUTech blog. I am pretty excited about this, and it is an area that I can't wait to dig into more. I have a passion for education and a deep interest in tech, I can't see where I could possibly go wrong here.
My second big change I am going to make is disabling comments. It goes against every social fiber in my body, trust me, but I can't manage the spam/rude/unintelligent comments anymore, and I have decided since I can't dedicate the proper time to manage it, why bother with it? Instead, I am replacing the comments area with basically a big button that says "e-mail me". I live and breathe e-mail, and it is something I can efficiently manage. E-mail is also a lot more personal, which makes me that much more inclined to respond to someone. Plus, my content is syndicated on nearly every major platform, many of which allow you to comment, and I know many of my current, and probably future readers are active on. I have no problem jumping into these conversations.
Monday is when this all starts happening. I'm pumped :D
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