Broadband and Me

Blogging: What's it all about?

Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Networking Stagnation: Fatigue or Growing Pains? III

• the paradigmshift behind knowledge management is really fundamental, and is at its core about personal empowerment in a networked environment. It's more about philosophy than about business science.

• having tapped into a community of people with amazingly bright and provoking ideas, the need to be able to tap into (these type of) communities, to keep being provoked to grow shows itself to be vital.

• reinforcement of the belief that if I want to see change, I have to work towards that change myself

• blogging is about people first and people only

• personal relationships are the stuff of our lives

• I want to be self employed to be able to put my (new) beliefs to work

• cybernetworks are reinforced and stabilized by face to face meetings

A very thoughtful and passionate piece from Ton, which outlines his experience from 14 months of blogging. I'm not there yet but I can see his points clearly and I agree enough to shout loud, "YES!"

Blogging has provoked change in me already. I am starting to make use of some core skills which have been neglected, like research; and like Ton I would like independence to pursue some of these goals (although I'm not in a position where working for myself would work yet) and most of all I would like to be making the pudding rather than thinking about it, because I love eating the pudding and proving my point.

Thanks Ton.