Technically Speaking

Once in a while it is fun to toot my own horn. Here’s an opportunity too good to pass up. This blog, Technically Speaking, was ranked in the top 50 communications blogs by the Bloggie Talkie blog.

I think it is an honor to be listed. I got a text message from my colleague, Tom Johnson, who writes another listed blog, I’d Rather Be Writing. We are both listed in the “Technical Communication and Science Communication” category.

Check out some of the other blogs on the list. And thanks to Bloggie Talkie for the including Technically Speaking on the list!

I’m running for the office of Chapter President in the Intermountain chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. You can see my candidate statement on the IM-STC website.

Wish me luck!

If you’re on Twitter, I bet you have one of these types in your list too: the type who have decided to use Twitter as their personal blog.  The kind that have extended conversations about the same topic over and over and over and over again.

I’ve got somebody like that in my list.

In the last hour, I’ve received 31 tweets. Of those, 24 have come from a single person.

Wait, just got another. 25 tweets in a single hour. Shut up already! Or, if you have that much to say, get a blog!

I’m tempted to de-list the noisy one, but he is well known in my industry, and I do find some of the tweets interesting. I just think that this is getting old fast.

How do you do it? I mean, how do you handle the tweeter who won’t shut up? Do you de-list? Are you ever the noisy one? Do you think before you tweet? Or do you think that you shouldn’t have to?

Happy New Year!

Life has been crazy around my house, what with the holidays, my brother’s wedding, and a pressing deadline at work. I am still here and going strong. I have lots of ideas of posts to write about, so I’ll try to get some more of them on paper.

After my trip to Saudi Arabia, I bought myself an iPod Touch, which is a similar device to the iPhone, but without the “phone” part. I love my iPod touch, and after trying to navigate this blog using the iPod Touch, I decided to make it mobile friendly. Thus, I’m happy to announce that Technically Speaking is now mobile-web friendly thanks to a plugin called MobliePress.  When you navigate to the blog’s homepage on a mobile browser you now see this:

I’ve only been able to test it from my iPod Touch, so let me know what mobile device you’re using and how the site looks for you.

Thanks for reading! More posts coming soon.

I was in the store with Christina on Saturday, and I was talking about my recent foray into Twitter Land. I found myself using words like “tweet” and “tweeting” and “tweeted.”

Christina looked at me and said, “Aren’t you embarrassed to say “I tweeted?”

Indeed, it does sound like my 2-year-old, who on Halloween night, went around saying “twick oh tweet”.

So, I’m tweeting on Twitter like my kid tweeted on Halloween.

And no, I’m not embarrassed about it, thank you very much.