… is, I think, the most common refrain I have heard over the last several years when talking to people about blogging and participating in the use of social media.
My response has typically been that if you’re anything like almost everyone else that sits down behind a screen at work, you’re already doing 80% + of what you would be doing if you were to take up blogging or the use of social media.
Harold Jarche, Dave Pollard and others (including me) call this interaction with information, images, links and other people "personal knowledge management (PKM)".
Basically, I think you don’t have the time to NOT do it.
I’ve borrowed Harold’s graphic (below) without asking permission, though I am pretty certain he will grant same. I am not certain that it is a graphic he has developed, though there is no attribution in his post and so I am assuming (Harold being very net savvy and all) that it comes from him. Thus, I am attributing it to him.
The "blog – discuss – reflect" loop at the bottom of his diagram is such a basic and powerful dynamic … it underscores why I think blogging more or less as we know it will last and last, on and on, as a basic element of Net sociology. It engenders and propels personal (and sometimes group) learning and development.
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I know people who get hundreds of e-mail each day. I don’t.
I also meet people who work in companies and have to make decisions or set direction but who do not have time to read.
I can understand how time constraints force you to reduce “discretionary” activities such as reading, but how are you able to learn if you don’t take the time to read, listen, reflect and then make your own understanding explicit for others to understand?
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