Well, My Boss Said So

I was giving a presentation to a group of librarians the other day on a few standard 2.0 tools – RSS, wikis, blogs… Now when I give these presentations more hands are raised when I ask, “Who already has a blog?” That’s comforting, the good word is getting out there.

There’s a question I’ve gotten a couple of times now and I answer it with a story. The question is: “How do you find time in your life for this?” By the time I’m done summarizing just the folders in my RSS reader newbies are a little stunned with the possible time sucking qualities of such a tool.

Well, I say, it started for me when I started my current job in June of 2006. My boss’s boss came into my cube and asked if I could do some training for library staff.

Of course, I answered, on what topic?

RSS, she replied.

Sure thing, I said.  What time would be convenient?

In early August, says she.

Thanks for the opportunity, I’m looking forward to it, I said.

When she left, I turned around and Googled “RSS.” I didn’t have any idea what it was despite a few years of my own blogging.

That was the day RSS entered my life and I find I still have enough time for it.