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Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
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HELP!blog is Now Open Since 1995, I have been receiving requests from people all around the world from the itown.com website who need help of one form or another. Usually it has been a request often a plea to help them find someone or someplace, and as in most things, I didn't have a clue. As I started blogging a while back, I would occassionally post these requests. Sometimes no. I really had no way to help folks with their needs. And I still don't, but some of you out there in the world do. It seems to me that we just need additional ways to connect folks with needs with folks who can help. And even better if it can be somewhat convenient. Blogs and their resulting newsfeeds are a beautiful way to "push" information out to folks who can help. All any of us have to do is just subscribe to one or a couple of the HELP!blog category feeds or bookmark the blog page. Who knows you may have the perfect answer to a need that someone posts. Just think how you'll feel about helping someone solve something! There's an incident in computer company lore that I just can't get out of my head. Do you remember when Steve Jobs of Apple Computer (yea, his first stint at Apple years ago) was courting John Sculley to leave Pepsi and come be Apple's CEO. Remember what he said that Sculley said was the kicker?
"John, do you want to change the world or just keep selling sugared water?" Maybe the best line Steve ever uttered. My point is let's always be about the business of finding a way to improve the dandy people and things that we have been given. Smart folks are giving us cool tech tools like blogs, newsfeeds, & newsreaders. We're just trying to use these good gifts. What can you do to help us? And naturally, thanks for your help! |
