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Philosophy

Missing In Action

March 26, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

While I've been at work the last few weeks, I've been MIA from Talkshop. It happens to all bloggers from time to time. Life starts moving too fast to stop and write. Work gets so busy that carving out time for posting slips. "Well, no excuses Miss Jones. Give us a post."

Here are a two things that have been on my mind lately. Each could be a post in itself, but I've tried to write each of them and it just isn't happening. Tidbits, if you will.

1. Book to read. I picked up The Trendmaster's Guide: Get a Jump of What Your Customer Wants Next by Robyn Waters. It is a slim "A to Z" guide written by the woman who helped transform a number of large companies into the brands we know today. It is small enough to slip into your laptop bag for light reading or an inspirational flip-through. I keep it on my desk. (I think it also makes a nice gift to a client or peer. More memorable than a thank you note and an easy commute read.)

2. Online generosity. I often talk about how links are currency in the online world. A coworker said it even better when he said that links are votes, but like votes in a developing country. Some links count more than others. I try to fill my posts both here and at "home" with links to the right people. That is being generous.

Then I came across a form of generosity that astounded me. I was looking for blogs about gardening and found an OPML file that contained over 200 feeds to gardening blogs. (And now I can't find it to give the link-love it deserves. Bad Leah.) "Wow," I thought, "I could make OMPL files of some of the themes I read and make those available to people." I haven't yet, but it is such a great idea that I wanted to put it out there.

Do you read a lot of feeds? Could you group them into subcatagories and share them with colleagues or readers of your blog?

There you have it. I'm back in the blogging game with a book recomendation and a thought about online generosity. How do you define online generosity? What is on your reading list?

posted by leah.jones

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