Technically Speaking

Last night I received a tweet from a friend who had just posted on her blog a rather great tip on managing Excel data and I got to thinking… not necessarily about Excel, but about how important it is to share your content with others and how doing so might be beneficial in many more ways than readership increases.

Since this blog isn’t about gaining readership for your content, let me see if I can explain.

We all have a niche, and lately mine seems to be support and some content publication, in my support hat there are times when I need to look for help with things.  Where better to find that help than on a blog?  Sure I could email or tweet or <insert communication method here> to get the information, but finding it on a blog might allow me to find other solutions or ideas I hadn’t thought of before.

Since Google Reader and other applications allow subscriptions to RSS feeds and most blogs today support RSS, the information on these blogs can come to you after adding it to your reader.

Even the best IT professionals need help once in awhile.  It seems as problems get bigger or more abundant, that it is easier to overlook the simple solution, perhaps a checkbox or incorrect selection that doesn’t rear its head until weeks later when computers decide that 8:00 am is a good time to reboot to finalize an update. – Oops…

Here is the link to that post I read about Excel. Give it a read, maybe it will be helpful to you, if in no other way than to keep you thinking about all the avenues where help might come from.