As I work through creation of my new blog I realize I am coming to many more crossroads than I planned. If it were simply a "brain dump" it may offer some value in getting your thoughts on a screen, but it would soon become a disorganized mess with no purpose and a waste of time (at least long term). How careful should I be with what I say? I plan to use this to promote myself to future (and current) employers and folks with whom I would like to network (for a variety of reasons). Therefore, I want them to know the true Donald Hasson, but not to be turned away by words taken out of context, without understanding my tone, by not understanding my whole life or why I am saying such and such or whatever.
A big thing that I'm starting to realize is a very valuable key to building a blog; you must think thoroughly about what you're writing. Random thoughts that pass through the mind are almost worthless. But as they are formed on the screen, edited, cut, pasted, researched and re-edited, they can become quite valuable. This point is discussed in many places. Quality content is very important. Therefore, if you want your blog to be at all valuable you will think through and research your post to be sure you are accurate and even provocative. Also, I thought Sandhill Trek had good feedback to his question 'Why do we blog?'. The first quote from Anne Matthewson from fishbucket.net starts with "We cannot live for ourselves alone...". What a great and fitting statement for people trying to find purpose. Selflessness is truly a key to success and happyness. What easier way to be selfless than to share information that you've acquired with the world?
Likely more on this later.
Good evening
Donald W. Hasson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhasson
http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
What's with the word?
As I clearly stated in my first posting I have several goals for starting this blog. Before pursuing methods of meeting those goals I must say I really dislike the word "blog". weB LOG; yes I realize from where it originated. Some words are beautiful; even poetic. Autumn, roses, love, cherish, blog. Something amiss here? Couldn't we as an internet society, joining races, countries, cultures and all of mankind, come up with something a little better? How about "intournal" (INTernet jOURNAL)? Or "moughts" (My thOUGHTS)? Or even "who cares?", which unfortunately for must of what is written I my site may be true. I admit mine are no better. Maybe you could post some suggestions for me to use in place of "blog"? Unfortunately "blog" is now a noun and a verb; not good. Since I'm quite certain I have said too much on this topic, I'll sign off now.
Good evening
Donald W. Hasson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhasson
http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com
Good evening
Donald W. Hasson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhasson
http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com
First Post
Interestingly enough my initial post will likely turn out to be very uneventful and useless. I suppose if the beginning of our country were to have felt like this first post, we would all be communists now. Thankfully our founding fathers put more effort into the birth of our country in 1776 (I'm very interested in this book, 1776 by David McCullough) than I likely will in this initial post; the genesis of my blog.
Basically the goal here is several-fold:
1. I work out a lot of problems, often in creative ways. Why should everyone else have to go through the same things just to get the same solution? I want to share what little knowledge I have so people can quit spending 5 hours a night trying to get the answer to "Why does my house plant have brown leaf tips?" or "What are some American companies with facilities in Italy?". I work hard to get accurate information and run it through my own personal filter (brain) honed by years of experience, blood, sweat and tears and all that jazz.
2. I want to promote my skills in the professional world. Again, I work hard to become very good at whatever I do. These skills stay with me wherever I go. I want people to be able to tap into this experience. If possible, this will be an avenue to broaden my professional career.
3. I have a lot of thoughts; who doesn't? More importantly, I would like to part of the huge network of experience and life's lessons called society. Everyone has different talents and views of the world. If thought through, concise and well written and, if possible, backed with data/research/good arguments people may actually benefit from what's in my head.
4. Networking (http://www.linkedin.com/, http://www.ecademy.com/) - personally or professionally. Somewhat of a combination of the first 3 reasons, I want to do all the above in a networking fashion by promoting my blog (http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com/) on other's websites (http://www.cfo-coach.com/index.htm) and post other's thoughts on my blog; or at least link.
5. Finally, again applying this to the previous reasons, I don't want to forget good stuff. Probably 5 years ago I posted my one and only guitar tablature on a website designed for this purpose. Every other tab for this song (Drive by Incubus) was very poorly done. I had developed a pretty good ear after playing guitar for several years and was confident my tab was correct (actually now 5 years later this one is exactly how I play it). Well, now looking for that tab online I can no longer find it. Likely legal issues with copyrights and such have stirred up the online guitar tab world enough that my post may be long gone. If it were on my blog, I'd have control over it. Another thing is all this stuff I'm learning about PERL programming language, MatLab, and Vim Text Editor to just name a few. Some of the discoveries I make come only after and hour or two of web searching and experimentation. It would be ridiculous to keep that just in my head. This blog is a good forum to which to do "brain dumps" at the end of the day.
I'm not sure how personal I'll get. I'm sure most will understand when I say I don't want a few billion people knowing that I had a bad day at work because of whatever. That's me and my wife's business and maybe the dude who caused the bad day.
Good evening
Donald W. Hasson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhasson
http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com
Basically the goal here is several-fold:
1. I work out a lot of problems, often in creative ways. Why should everyone else have to go through the same things just to get the same solution? I want to share what little knowledge I have so people can quit spending 5 hours a night trying to get the answer to "Why does my house plant have brown leaf tips?" or "What are some American companies with facilities in Italy?". I work hard to get accurate information and run it through my own personal filter (brain) honed by years of experience, blood, sweat and tears and all that jazz.
2. I want to promote my skills in the professional world. Again, I work hard to become very good at whatever I do. These skills stay with me wherever I go. I want people to be able to tap into this experience. If possible, this will be an avenue to broaden my professional career.
3. I have a lot of thoughts; who doesn't? More importantly, I would like to part of the huge network of experience and life's lessons called society. Everyone has different talents and views of the world. If thought through, concise and well written and, if possible, backed with data/research/good arguments people may actually benefit from what's in my head.
4. Networking (http://www.linkedin.com/, http://www.ecademy.com/) - personally or professionally. Somewhat of a combination of the first 3 reasons, I want to do all the above in a networking fashion by promoting my blog (http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com/) on other's websites (http://www.cfo-coach.com/index.htm) and post other's thoughts on my blog; or at least link.
5. Finally, again applying this to the previous reasons, I don't want to forget good stuff. Probably 5 years ago I posted my one and only guitar tablature on a website designed for this purpose. Every other tab for this song (Drive by Incubus) was very poorly done. I had developed a pretty good ear after playing guitar for several years and was confident my tab was correct (actually now 5 years later this one is exactly how I play it). Well, now looking for that tab online I can no longer find it. Likely legal issues with copyrights and such have stirred up the online guitar tab world enough that my post may be long gone. If it were on my blog, I'd have control over it. Another thing is all this stuff I'm learning about PERL programming language, MatLab, and Vim Text Editor to just name a few. Some of the discoveries I make come only after and hour or two of web searching and experimentation. It would be ridiculous to keep that just in my head. This blog is a good forum to which to do "brain dumps" at the end of the day.
I'm not sure how personal I'll get. I'm sure most will understand when I say I don't want a few billion people knowing that I had a bad day at work because of whatever. That's me and my wife's business and maybe the dude who caused the bad day.
Good evening
Donald W. Hasson
http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldhasson
http://donaldhasson.blogspot.com
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