But too often, we use terrible examples or scare stories to convince people how to start blogging, and that’s just not helping our case. A normal manager or decision maker at a business is going to think, “They vilify Kryptonite locks or criticize Dan Rather — that seems a lot riskier than just doing an email newsletter.He points out on another blog that geeks are "lousy at convincing others to try technologies."
I'm in the same business of translating technology and making it work for ordinary people and the avoidance language I get about blogs includes:
- I don't have time to read them
- I don't have time to write one
- I don't like the idea of a personal journal at work
- It will just give people the opportunity to flame me/my company
This is a great list! I definitely encounter a lot of these objections as well, and maybe I'll steal some of these as ideas for future posts on how to make the case for blogging...?
Posted by: Anil | April 10, 2006 11:00 AM | Permalink to Comment