Good blog-manners means the host responds to comments, re-blogs, and pingbacks in a timely way. But for a while now I’ve increasingly taken you, dear readers, for granted.
I again plead the demands of commitments I’ve made to the two Boards on which I serve.
And there’s this: I miss the time I spend here. I love the interaction. I enjoy the opportunity to clarify my own thinking or share a laugh. I miss my blog. And hanging around with you.
Last night I thought about all this and decided something has to give. And I decided further that letting the blog take the hit, as has been happening, is not what I want.
So next week, I plan to meet with the president of one board and tell him I’ll serve out my term but will be reducing my workload. Right now I publish (and write, design and build) the newsletter, and handle our publicity. These I’ll continue because they’re my own areas of expertise and why I’m on that board.
But somehow, over the last year I’ve allowed myself to be pulled into working on the website, promoting membership, doing a bit of database maintenance and acting as the organization photographer at sponsored events. All that will have to get re-assigned.
Over the last weeks, I started a number of posts that I never finished because they needed more detail or editing or fact checking. As that didn’t happen, they’ve sat, lonely and waiting to be published, as neglected as the comment threads have been.
Stick with me? I’m gonna fix it.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
