We've been doing a somewhat-regular blog for almost two years now. As we've built readership, I hear one question more than any other: How on Earth do you find the time to write this thing and still run your business?
As our late-summer hiatus should make clear, the honest answer is that I sometimes don't have the time.
It's also the case that our blog system only provides room to credit one author, so I sometimes get full credit for work that's only partly mine. I'm tempted to chalk that up to being one of the perks of being CEO, but probably shouldn't. The fact is, many of these posts are a team effort.
I bring these items up because over the next couple weeks, we will be re-tooling the blog and a number of other elements of our web site. During that time, I'd be surprised if we manage to post any new pearls of wisdom. But when we come back in mid-September, we're going to have a new structure and a clearer focus. I'm also hoping to indicate shared authorship more clearly when it applies.
One of the many interesting things about working at MyRAQA is that we must constantly bounce back and forth between seeing the forest and planting the trees. Our hands-on work is what makes our strategic work valuable and vice versa. So it shouldn't be surprising that we have wavered between writing lofty ruminations and nuts-and-bolts nerd bait.
To address this tension, I've decided to pull the classic CEO move: I want to have it both ways. So we will be moving to a twice-a-week format where posts will alternate between the technical and the strategic. Whether you're interested in one side or both, hopefully this change will make it easier to know when to show up.
That brings me to one final thing we're adding for sure: email notifications. I barely have time to write this blog, but one thing I sure don't have time to do is keep checking a web site that only changes a few times a month. I don't think we should expect our readers to have this kind of time either.
If you are interested in being notified when new posts go up, please send an empty email to blog_subs@myraqa.com. Obviously, email addresses will be held in strictest confidence.
Before we go set all that up, I also want to say thanks to everyone who's picked this up over the past couple years. I wasn't entirely sure this made sense when we started it, but your comments and support have made it clear that there's room for an industry forum that isn't afraid to have a little fun.
See you in a couple weeks!
