Corporate Blogging and Unexpected Interruptions

David Strom posted How to be a better blogger — and still keep your day job provides advice from many experienced bloggers and me. Blogging is still new to the business world and its rules continue developing and changing. If you follow nothing but one rule, it would be what I was quoted: “When you go on that job interview, do you want the interviewee to have read the [blog] entry?”
Been having one of those two weeks where things keep popping up and nothing gets done as you spend more time putting out fires than taking steps forward. Two family cars stopped running, so I had to schlep my mom and hubby to the cars and repair stations.
Kids summer activities are slowly starting up, but it’s crazy in between. Makes having a home office both a curse and a wonderful thing. If it weren’t for a home office, the kids wouldn’t have the opportunities to do as much stuff or I would be stressing over making up for lost time at the corporate job. However, I lost some writing work because I couldn’t be depended on twice a week. Yes, I made mistakes and a client wasn’t happy. I had to sacrifice his assigments for others. So that’s the curse.
Still, I wouldn’t trade this job. I enjoy working with a diversity of organizations and even countries and the challenges. But not making clients happy makes me feel terrible as that’s my number one priority in my business: happy clients. If they’re not happy, I do what I can to fix it or admit I can’t do it and take the proper steps with regard to payment.
Just published an article yesterday that I am proud of thanks to the five people who contributed to The Pandora’s Box of Social Networking. I hope the legislation gets killed quickly. Congress doesn’t need to waste time on it.
Oh yeah, today is this blog’s sixth anniversary.