This blog is not a sales tool; it’s a discussion tool.
It was never meant to sell products or be anything other than the joy of connecting with different people and hearing their stories.
It started in 2011 with a post about social media but the fourth post is here and I believe I am still true to what I did five years ago.
I will not structure this for maximum sales impact. I will not criticise organisations such as the GDC to get copy or numbers or likes on Facebook. I won’t embarrass or upset people for my own gain or benefit but I will continue to tell the story of what I see around me and use it as a diary of how I felt at the time.
When I started in September 2011 I didn’t really think that anybody would read it. It continued to gain some sort of connection and traction over the proceeding years and then went a bit mental around about the time of the publication of my GDC case in February 2015.
Sometimes it might come across as a bit evangelical and sometimes it might come across as a bit preachy, that’s because sometimes I write the blog when I am upset or annoyed.
Please don’t feel you ever have to comment on this quietly, please comment on it openly. The point of it is to open discussion amongst the profession. I won’t stop writing it because too many times I have been to places where people have quietly come up to me and said “Thank you for writing it”. Recently someone told me that they walk to work because of my blog. It was hard for me not to cry when they said that because rarely do we get the opportunity to affect someone so profoundly.
I have used this quote before and I will use it again; at a Frank Turner concert at Nottingham Ice Stadium in 2014 he said “We will keep doing what we’re doing and if more people come we will put out more chairs, if less people come we will take some chairs away”
One of my greatest privileges is reading back on my own blog to see how I felt at the time that I wrote it, sometimes delighted and delirious and sometimes depressed and miserable; it charts the progress through what, for all of us, is sometimes quite difficult.
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