Magic Pot of Jobs

It’s getting to be an interesting time here in the Pot O’ Jobs. My boss has given the go-ahead for us to pursue the kinds of businesses that will be hiring bloggers. We’ve started to see those positions get posted and believe that in DC of all places, there will only be more.

I’m very excited about this, because I was just thinking the other day that the network admin/programmer side of tech culture isn’t as interesting to me as the citizen’s media/blog culture aspect. Don’t get me wrong, I still love what I do, but I’m positively salivating at the addition of this area of specialization to our practice.

This means that I’m going to be adding some of my blog projects to my professional bio. In the division I’m in, we like to talk about how each of us is from the industry we’re placing into, so we know what our clients are talking about and can recruit intelligently for it. So to demonstrate my expertise in blogging, Magic Pot of Jobs and Metroblogging DC will become part of the bio sheet that our prospects get.

But that also means that I’ll be handing over the URLS to those projects to my boss’s boss’s bosses, as well as my clients and talent. Great. Did you notice that prominent link to my personal blog in the very first entry? Lovely.

So in order to avoid getting Dooced, I’ve got to do a little thinking about how to maintain my unique (irreverent and snarky) voice without crossing that thin, barely visible line between, “stuff that’s fresh and interesting” and “stuff that’ll get me fired.”

Of course, I could just be flattering myself by thinking I’m all that interesting, so hey, this could all be moot.

Anyway, first things first. People I tell stories about shouldn’t recognize themselves if they come here. So that will probably change… you’ll find that some of my stories are a little lighter on detail, or that I’m using the access control over at the personal blog a little more frequently.

Next, I need to post consistently. More (quality) posts == more useful blog. I’ve got three blogs to maintain now, so I need to budget time each day to posting.

Looks like I’ve got some things to figure out. I hope you guys will come along for the ride.

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