Ruminations
Ann's Weekly Ruminations 1/8/10
Jan 8th, 2010
Blogger: Ann
"If you do something great and don’t create a record of what you did, did you really do it? As far as the web is concerned, you didn’t, and the web is becoming the global memory. So you’ve got to get it down – get it recorded." -- Gerry McGovern, Killer Web Content.
A solid piece of advice, one that I have taken to heart -- hence the blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and all manner of social media into which I’ve become emerged in the last couple of years. I spent most of my 50 years on the planet as a very private, somewhat shy person. So much so that when I first began writing in a public forum I hid behind a pseudonym, but found that to be awkward in social networking.
The problem here is that the global memory doesn’t only record what you throw out into it, but whatever anyone throws out there. If it is a commentary about you, whether true or not, it also becomes part of the record. In the end the online world is much like life itself -- full of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods. Some things stick, some don’t, but if writing is what you do -- who you are -- then you just have to keep on writing and working on that record.
I am humbled and elated to have been accepted into The Author’s Guild. May it serve as inspiration to complete my memoir and live up to the standards of such an amazing and creative group.
Writing around the web this week:
2009: Year of Research Breakthroughs in Multiple Sclerosis
Mike Coffman’s Excellent Adventure: U.S. Health Care System Works!
Self-Serve Soda Fountains: Serving up Fecal Bacteria
Democrats Going it Alone on Health Care Reform
Read more:
Care2 Reform Health Policy
Care2 Healthy & Green Living with Multiple Sclerosis
MS Maze
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