The other day in an e-mail, a colleague noted my last blog entry was in June. Implied query: what’s up? This hiatus began with a vacation in Little Compton, R.I. It’s a beautiful area on the spit of land across the Narragansett Bay, east of Newport butting against Westport, Mass., an equally lovely space. I needed the break. Besides that, there would be virtually no connectivity. Okay, our friends had a great Comcast cable hookup.
Still, the expectation was that I’d do nothing. I did, and when I returned I backslid — dealing with current priorities and making no attempt toward any interactive thought leadership. I have been reading a lot of blogs, loving it though feeling a bit guilty.
Thanks to Robert Scoble, a preeminent blogger and author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers (written with Shel Israel and published by John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken), I discovered it’s okay to take a blog break. Back on August 13, Scoble announced he’d be stopping for a while.
I found the many warm comments in his direction to be very encouraging. Okay, in no way have I been blogging as hard as Scoble, but I have been working too much. Getting away from blogging commitment has been good. I’m back at it, but with thanks to Robert Scoble and all his friends for making it okay!
Robert Scoble http://scobleizer.com/
Little Compton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Compton%2C_Rhode_Island
Westport, Mass. http://www.westport-ma.com/
