05.28.08
Dot Calm
That title is really funny, by the way! (Where I come from, “calm” and “com” are pronounced the same, pretty clever?). A friend and I were discussing how informal the blogs are that he’s read. (Did he mean mine? He didn’t say…) I said, “I think that a blog is meant to be like a conversation. That’s why I intentionally (of course, never on purpose) misspell words and don’t proofread so that I, too, can appear cool like all the Gen-Y kids.”
He maintained that a blog should be perfect, and should look professional. He loses respect for people whose blogs don’t reflect the professionalism of their website. Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
Maybe in this new world of technological communication, we need to become more calm, and less perfectionistic (there, that was a purposeful grammar misteak. There, another one). In order to compete in the world of business, we need to do what the customer is doing, to speak in the language of the customer.
That means joining the You-Tube, myspace, social sites bandwagon. We need to do text messaging and clip words and be casual. That is the way of the world of the next generation–but it is also the way that all generations are learning to think, behave, and be: it’s not really that the younger generations are instigating these new behaviors. I think it’s more that technology is driving these new behaviors, and that the newer generations are just more likely to try out and become expert at these new technologies. And it’s also these younger generations that are driving the casual, friendly (read: Humorous??) work environment. They will help us all to “Get Your SHINE Together!” What do you think? Are you joining the bandwagon today?
By the way, the blue jacket SOLD!!
