Lately I have been experiencing a little frustration with the people I work with. I set up two blogs back in December with much excitement about all of the opportunities to write blog posts. I thought we would get our staff to write about their latest research, have weekly updates about all of our latest PR endeavors, etc. Everyone seemed very excited to jump on the bandwagon and become a “blogger.”
Of course this did not happen.
I got everything set up and then sent out a very detailed email with directions on how to set up an account and write a post. One person signed up. No one has posted. They all say they don’t understand how to do it and to that I say….MY 79 YEAR OLD GRANDMA BLOGS!!
Yes that’s right, most of you have heard about the mommy bloggers….well I have a granny blogger! My uncle and I set up a family blog back in September to keep my very large extended family in contact with each other. We would get frustrated when people would send out email updates to only a few people. So now everyone in the family updates on the blog and whoever is interested can go to the blog to find out what everyone is up to. GENIUS! I was absolutely floored when my Grandma and very technically challenged uncle picked up on it very quickly. Why can’t my coworkers???
In four months I will no longer be working there (moving to the big apple….YAYYYY!) and either the blogs will die or they finally give it a shot. Luckily Robert French taught me about SnagIt in class the other day so I think I’ll make a tutorial on how to do it. We’ll see what happens!
) Don’t let it frustrate you, Jackie. I experience this with clients all the time. Hey, it is tough to gain that adoption of and adaptation to new practices.
