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On not blogging

Gordon McLean — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:39:28 +0000

A product release is imminent.

A trip to visit two customers in the US of A.

Ongoing complications with the new ISTC website (soon, soon!).

Planning for 2012, including a major restructure of our content.

Actual writing some documentation (a rare occurrence!).

Plus all the usual things that life is wont to throw at us.

Maybe look for me on Twitter instead?

How rude

Gordon McLean — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:13:45 +0000

There is one thing I haven’t done here for quite a while. It’s rather remiss of me so please accept my apologies.

Quite simply, I wanted to say thank you. To you. Yes YOU.

Thank you for visiting this blog, and more importantly, thank you for coming back and visiting again. A lot of the ideas I talk about here are made better by your comments, and I continue to find blogging to be a useful way to work through some of the thoughts and random ponderings that float around in my head.

I tend, like many, to do most of my blog reading through RSS and I know that making the effort to comment on a blog is something that not everyone will do, and which some blogs can struggle with. It continues to amaze and delight me that anyone reads this blog, let alone takes the time to share their own hard-earned thoughts.

So, sincerely, thank you.

Not written, yet

Gordon McLean — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:59:18 +0000

Quite a lot going on at the moment, but don’t worry dear blog reader I’ve not forgotten about you, I’ve still got plenty of things to post here just not really finding the time (or requisite brain power) to focus on them and think them through properly.

Here are some of the things I’ve started to write about but not yet posted.

In other words, “here are the posts languishing in DRAFT”.

Content from the ISTC and STC publications, why isn’t it all free?
Social Media Models, where I try and outline what I think are the models that we, as technical communicators can get the most value from adopting
The evils of presumption
Embracing user-generated content
Small social media. If your ‘community’ is very small, what will work for you?
How to stop thinking about documents

I will hopefully revisit some (all?) of these in the future, but before all that I have an eSeminar to prepare for, more details on that soon.

Present and Future

Gordon McLean — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:42:15 +0000

As we roll into the holiday season, I’m going to be pausing this blog until the New Year. I’ve found it tricky at times to get into a regular posting schedule here, so that’s something I’m hoping to rectify in 2010.

Looking back it’s been a good year for me, and I’m hoping to take a lot of things forward in the coming year. All of that will be covered here, of course, and I’ve got some plans to revisit some of the topics that I’ve shared with you this year.

Rather than write up a review I thought I’d just see what Wordle thought of my website, which is interesting in and of itself:

Thanks to everyone who has commented or emailed me direct. It has really helped me and I hope it’s helped some of you.

All the very best for the coming holiday season, and here’s to a wonderful 2010!

Guest Posting

Gordon McLean — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:33:39 +0000

A few weeks ago Scott, from the always relevant DMN Communications blog asked me if I’d be interested in writing a guest post.

I immediately said yes then, after a short pause, I set the expectation that I wouldn’t be able to write one for a few weeks as I was coming to the end of a project.

So, last week I finished off my guest post and I’m now waiting, somewhat nervously, to see how it will be received. The post goes live on Wednesday, so not long left to find out.

It’s quite liberating, writing a blog post for another website (not done that for years), and it sparked a few ideas for this place as well. You’ll start to see some of those soon.

Thanks to Scott for the opportunity, and keep your eyes peeled to the DMN Communications blog on Wednesday.