I know, I know it’s been a LONG time since I’ve posted and I’m not the world’s most reliable blogger (at least this blog).  But I’m going to do better.  I think collaboration with others is important and sharing ideas/thoughts even more important.  Well, to do that, I NEED TO POST.  I’ve actually been thinking a lot about it since the new year and I’m going to try and post once a week, at least.  I’m going to start there and after that, who knows.

I hate to make excuses but I think one of the reason I haven’t posted is “information overload”.  I think most of us can identify with that.  You know, having something like 130 RSS feeds, getting magazines a couple times a month in the mail and not having the time, or notion to read them all.  For me a degree of guilt comes with all of that.  I would LOVE to be able to sit down and read, read, read but I don’t.  Instead I choose to watch shows on TV with my husband, work or just enjoy life a little more.  I started cleaning things a bit last night getting rid of those feeds that I don’t read much or where people haven’t posted for over a year.  I’m not sure how many feeds I have not but I might be under the 100 mark.  I’ve got my magazines stacked and ready to read and my notebook next to it to take notes.    My husband and I have also agreed to turn the TV off from 6-8pm too so that’s going to help too.

Here’s to things picking up and posts/knowledge improving.

OK, can I just say, I really, really wish that when someone posted a comment to my blog, I got an email telling me so.  I am so SO used to that because of RSS feeds, and other blogs I have that it would be nice if WordPress did the same.

Anyone know how to do that? If it’s not possible, how do those of you out there remember to go check your posts to see comments?  I’d be interested in hearing your processes.

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Ok, tell me this isn’t TOTALLY cool. I love wiki’s and blogs and things but think of the ability to put comments in the margin, etc. What a great collaboration tool. This I HAVE got to check out!!!

For those of you that don’t know, I was laid off from my previous employer (Intel) back in October. I sort of thought it was going to be coming because my old group was very political and because I was one of “those people” that bucked the system and dared to ask upper management questions, I wasn’t really liked. That in addition to some other political things lead to my lay off. At first being laid off was really hard because I knew it was good for me but at the same time freaked me out too. I didn’t understand why, from a performance perspective, why I was laid off when I’d had over 3 divisional recognition awards and my customers felt i delivered results. I think at first I was just numb and wasn’t sure what to do with myself since I had gone from working a 40 hour week to nothing. Let me tell you though, it was nice. It was great to have both Thanksgiving and Christmas off to really enjoy the holidays, my friends and family. That was a real treat.

I kept looking at my RSS feeds and hoping that some day I’d feel the desire and need to read and immerse myself back into the blogisphere and be a “contributing member of society”. Just about every day I’d open my computer and look at the long list of posts to read and just felt overwhelmed and I think a part of me just wanted to curl up and hide from everyone and lick my wounds. It was a feeling I’ve not had before, I mean, I’ve NEVER been let go from a job and that was a hard pill to swallow.

Well, things have changed. I have a full time job now that I’m really excited about. I’ll be using my wonderful ISD skills in the travel industry developing online courses for the company that has hired me. I’m pretty excited and it’s with that excitement that i write this post. I’m back.. i mean…

I’M BACK!!!!
I’m so excited to read up on the posts that I’ve read, well I may not read all the ones I’ve missed but I hope to catch up and start posting to others blogs. I’m interested to see what I’ve missed and jump back into sharing my thoughts, learning from others and bring that knowledge to my new job and company.

This was a long and hard process but I’m really glad I went through it. Getting laid off was the best thing I ever needed. It was a great kick in the you know what to get me out there and realize that I bring value. May you all feel the same.

It’s been forever and a day since I’ve written in my blog, I even deleted the last one. I suppose part of the reason was my want to disassociate from the blogging/teaching/learning community because of my lay off.  After the lay off I honestly wasn’t sure what I wanted to do.  I just knew I wanted to hide out, regroup and determine my path.  Well, I’m back!  I’m still looking for full time employment but I’ve got lots of things going on and I’m honestly glad I have these options open to me.  So look forward to hearing from me more. I’ve got a ton and a half of post to get through, comment, etc.

It feels great to be back!!

Today Eric and I got up late and didn’t have much desire to do much so we just hung out at home. Oh, I forgot to say, it was 99 degrees outside today too so spending time outside wasn’t going to happen. Eric played his video games, big surprise while I sat at our new pub table watching him and redoing my creativewebsights.com I really like it now, not that I didn’t before but I think it’s easier for people to find what they need. I’ve been working a lot at work on podcasting, blogging and creating that blogisphere community to collaborate and share information and knowledge the site update should make finding that stuff easier for people and easier for me to share with them. OH, don’t know if I said anything about my del.icio.us site, but I got that set up too. It enables me to tag blog posts I’m interested in and want to keep. Pretty cool stuff.