The Blogging Blues

There is so much happening in the HR blogosphere, it is mind boggling! With a quick check  of my Google Reader and long over due visits to some of my favorite sites, here is what I found:

• Laurie over at PunkRockHR gave a Sunday HR shout out to Kris, our favorite HR Capitalist;
• Breanne is analyzing her Google Analytics at The MBTI Blog to tell her what her readers want to hear;
• Dan is hosting the 3rd edition of the Leadership Development Carnival at Great Leadership;
• Ann is introducing us the the Carnival of Trust at Compensation Force;
• Your HR Guy, PunkRock HR and HR Wench joined creative forces to establish a newly charged HRM Today.

The HR blogosphere is buzzing. I am not.

I think I have the blogging blues. My ideas are so fleeting lately. I can't get them to the page.  Here's what I am thinking: this awesome train is passing me by (I fell off of Alltop!); the Internet is great and it offers what you need when you need it; I am connected to an on-line community and I don't want that connection to wither over time. (Wither? Yes, I did say that and frankly don't know where that word came from either but it works doesn't it?!)  So what's going on here . . . little bit of guilt, little bit of F.O.M.O, little fear of losing my audience . . . .

Could it be an educated woman with a husband and daughter (beginning her second week of second grade), working 50 hours a week, house training a 4 month old puppy, managing an HR department transitioning from paper to electronic files in 14 (!) days, while trying to maintain a regular exercise schedule and carving out family time?

I am so glad we had this little talk.

Comments

[Wally Bock]

You haven't fallen off my reader, Lisa. From decades of doing newsletters and columns and radio commentaries and now blogs, I offer you this. The neat thing about blogging is that you set the pace and the goals. If you can, find a way to use this to give you strength or release. If you can't consider having a funeral and memorial service for the blog where you celebrate the wonders of it all and vow to return in a different time, place and form.

[Lisa Rosendahl]

Hi Wally, no funeral services or memorials on the horizon! It felt good to get something out there today and that was some release in and of itself. I set the pace and the goals - thanks.

[Rachel - I Hate HR]

We all go through these phases. Just let it progress naturally.

[Breanne Potter]

OMG!!! You talked about FOMO! Well, new best friend, you haven't fallen off of my radar either! I think if your blogs slow down it probably means you have a life! I posted my last blog on a Saturday night when I had nothing to do. That's just sad!

BTW, if Wally Bock is your first commenter, then you're still wicked awesome!

[laurie ruettimann]

Doooood, the good thing about the RSS reader is that we're here for us when you're ready to write. No pressure. We're just happy ur writing -- especially while puppy training. How is puppy training like HR? Now there's a post I want to read!

xo/laurie