When Did I Begin Blogging?
What’s My Driving Force and Motivation?
Over 2 decades ago, I blogged professionally for a world class enterprise. I began creating electronic company newsletters out of necessity. The newsletter highlighted major feats, areas of improvement and opportunities. Eventually, I ventured into blogging in Confluence SharePoint for an enterprise ePMO (Portfolio Management Office) for 10,000 employees on a rotational basis. Each quarter I was responsible for coming up with relevant articles and trivia questions to keep business partners engaged, educated and informed. I was tasked with provoking client’s interest in the company’s product offerings including regional consulting services for local project teams.
Initially, I felt overwhelmed with taking on yet another mundane task. My plate was full with daily business partner meetings including stand-up (Agile, Scrum) meetings, computer programming (Wiki Markup Language) assignments via Confluence Share Point (Admins Only) and periodic administrative duties (Windows servers cleanup, website cleanups for the group and business partners who lacked technical skills to retire their antiquated websites), generating monthly TPM (Technical Performance Metrics) reports and conducting technical gated reviews for production releases. I never had a dull moment! I enjoyed my job thoroughly.
Eventually the astounding results (via site trafficking statistics) cured my boredom. I found that people were genuinely interested in learning more about the company’s products and services via blog than strictly relying on weekly business partners cross-functional meetings and quarterly reviews. People were elated to peruse through the blog to hunt for tidbits of relevant information on the own. The discovery phase was amazing! I grew as a blogger. I began to come up with striking articles and trivia facts and questions on my own out of personal interest. The client base grew tremendously! Clients began to send questions about next month’s newsletter, provide input and feedback. Blogging became exciting to me!
I ventured off into blogging on my own for my companies after I pondered podcasting with a colleague of mine. Yet again, I wondered what specifically to blog about and wondered if people still read blogs. It took 2 years to master a topic. My blog, ‘She Speaks Literary Works’ was birthed! Be it controversial but sensational. There are times when I re-read old articles published and I sit back in amazement and think wow! That’s pretty damn good. Enjoy!
