Facibus On Blogging

I’ve seen a lot of posts lately by senior members of the blogocracy whining about the amount of time that supporting their fame costs them. Hundreds of emails a day, hours spent moderating comments, it seems that “I’m far too busy” is the new black. Feh.

During the day (and for part of most evenings) I’m a consultant Information Architect. One of the issues that consultancies face is a balancing act of available resources vs. new work. This is especially noticeable where a lot of highly tuned professionals are working short intense engagements with a lot of high expectations all around. The sales team tend to find the work then hope that the resources will be available to fulfill the engagements. There is a risk that the people will not be available in time and there will be an embarrassing failure to meet client expectations.

My boss, Melanie, has a saying for this kind of thing: “Let that be the problem“. That is why we love her - because she knows that finding the people to do the work might stretch us a bit (or even a lot), but she has faith that we will find a way.

So here is my corollary of Melanie’s saying for bloggers: get famous, and may getting too many comments and too many emails be the problem. Because if that many people want you, you must be doing something right. Let that be the problem that I wish for all of you - that you get that much traffic, and that many fans, that everyone wants a piece of you. It is the problem that I wish for myself