Results tagged “blogging” from Birmingham Post - Business Blog

I've made a number of comments to a fair few people recently about the shortage of female bloggers in Birmingham, and I'm certainly not the only one. A prime example of 'be careful what you wish for' as, hot on the heels of my small rant, came an interesting and welcome invitation to be a guest blogger for the Birmingham Post. How could I refuse?

Looking around at my panel of esteemed bloggers in the Business section, I see that I am currently the single female voice. It's encouraging that the balance is starting to be redressed, but this is clearly not representative of Birmingham's business community. So an interesting conundrum presents itself. How do we encourage more women to make their voices heard, and why should they care?

"Of the 12,000 new blogs created every day, 50% focus on exactly the same subject - the blogger".

At least that's the claim that Sarfraz Manzoor makes in his recent Esquire feature on the New Narcissism movement that this generation that are so plugged into the social media movement has spawned. So, in light of that I'm going to keep this introductory post short and sweet and try to make it not so much about me.

The digital landscape is starting to grow up, at least out of its infancy and into a slightly more self-aware adolescent phase. Those of us who work within the digital industry are finding that along with the raft of opportunities that the latest developments bring along with them comes a need for a new, more intelligent approach.

My blog starts by issuing a pardon for the rather poor quality career advice I received when I was about to leave school. I suppose I ought to forgive them, as I'm now making my living mostly from something that wasn't invented then: the internet.

When I was a lad, TV was in black and white and we had two channels that only broadcast for part of the day.

(So there you go: anyone interested in the background of the Post bloggers can now start to calculate/guess at my age - as long as I'm not bending the truth of course.)

I remember when colour TV was first invented. Schedulers seemed to think we all wanted to watch snooker. Viewers may have shown little interest in the game before - but boy, didn't it look great in colour.