I’m at the SFO airport enjoying my overpriced Firewood Cafe pizza and I felt the need to write a post I’ve been thinking about all month. I didn’t want to pay for the wifi since my layover isn’t that long so you’re getting my second mobile post via Opera mini (that’s my way of warning you about the bad spelling and typo’s to follow).
February marks 1 full year of blogging on NewCommBiz. I’ve actually been blogging off and on for 5 years or so I just never had a reason to stick with one for very long 
(As proof and for a really good laugh I found an old blogspot -aka blogger- blog of mine. I wish I could remember the password so I can delete the damn thing. www.baroqueinboise.blogspot.com. I’ll have to check that later to make sure it’s right)
A lot has changed in the last year. When I started. A year ago I had just left the marketing agency I was a partner at to try something new. It didn’t workout and just as that wound down HP came knocking.
I was half way through my Executive MBA program a year ago and now I’ll graduate in May *big sigh*
Most of what I wrote about was theory or only tested on a limited basis. Today I turn those theories into action and have the luxury of building on those theories making them even better.
I had the pleasure of spending a lot of time this week with Anita Campbell of www.smallbiztrends.com and for some reason it really got me thinking about the future of this blog. I’m a pretty open guy when it comes to sharing my thoughts on new media (or anything for that matter) but there’s something I haven’t blogged about much (or as much as I’d like to): HP.
I’ve done some pretty mild posts from time to time about a campaign or something, but I haven’t really dug into some of the meaty stuff. There’s two reasons for that and I think I’ve worked them out in my head.
1 – I didn’t know how interested you would be in what I’m doing at HP. Sure HP’s a big company but I mostly deal with LaserJet and I don’t know about you but printers, in and of themselves, don’t get me real excited. What does excite me is what HP is able to do with new media to help our customers. I’m also focused on the SMB space now (which having been an SMB a few times really get’s me excited).
2 – the other reason is kind of two fold but boils down to the fact that I was still “adjusting” to corporate life.
A) I wasn’t working on a whole lot of stuff just yet so there wasn’t too much to write about.
B) I wasn’t really sure what the reaction would be to me being so public about not just what we are doing in that space but how we are doing it.
Really this is a long way of saying that moving forward your going to be seeing a lot more stuff about what I’m doing at HP and how I’m doing it. I actually have a whole post comming up about my 6 month assesment of HP. Stay tuned.
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Other than that I wanted to thank all of you for sticking with me over the last year, and invite you to help me take this conversation to the next level.
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