Blogging and the art of lying fallow – fallow like a phoenix

The blog has been lying fallow for a fair chunk of this year.  There have been several good reasons (and several bad reasons) for this – it seems to be a point of pain that a lot of bloggers come to eventually.  For blogging to work, it seems you definitely need good content (well, duh) to attract readers.  And regular content.

So thinking it through the blog is at its tipping point – either it gets ‘heavier’ and more regular in its content or it devolves into a sporadic nonentity.  Clearly the second option is quite possible at the moment, but I guess I’d rather not.  The most successful blogs in my observation have had regular content on a topic of interest.  Now, ‘information systems’ is a fairly niche area of interest, so I am not kidding myself that this blog will:

1. Ever make a Technorati ‘most popular’ list
2. Make money

However, with any luck I can bring together my thoughts and research around the management of information systems into one spot and help at least a few people.  With this in mind, I am going to commit to the following schedule:

• Monday:  IT Governance Day
• Tuesday:  Business IS Strategy Day
• Wednesday:  IT Management Day (IT Review and IT project management)
• Thursday:  Information Management Day
• Friday:  The Toolbox (New software or tools that help people to Get Things Done)
• Weekend:  The Fun Stuff (Games, videos, jokes, strange stuff on the Net)

These topics cover off my areas of expertise and the work I do for clients, and of course I’ll try to throw in the ‘normal’ ad hoc blogging stuff like media mentions and upcoming speaking engagements.  I will try to throw in a bit more personal stuff as well to humanise the blog (although I attended a session on identity theft recently that scared the bedickens out of me). 

And while I’m at it – a name change is in order so that the blog sounds less like the poor cousin to a root canal and somewhat trender, hipper, and using a language that has been dead a thousand years:  from the ashes arise ‘notitia ratio procuratio’ (latin for information systems management).