I have now finished reading the Huffington Post guide and Blog Rules by Nancy Flynn.

 It is striking how different the books are.  Huffington draws examples from their huge stable of contributors and pastes their comments in numerous sidebars.  I wished I could say that some of those comments really resonated with me but it all seemed a little alien.  The present they enjoy is not the future which awaits me.  My path, whatever it is, lies elsewhere.

 Flynn is a quite different book.  For starters, her footnote references occupy 15 pages.  Whatever else she has, she has done an adequate job of researching and documenting her thesis.  Her basic audience is larger companies whose success prints large lawsuit target arrows on their backs.  IOW, blogging is not just about hanging your opinion out in public but doing so in a business-like way that advances your goals and minimizes your risk exposure.

 Now, DAIR Computer Systems is not in the larger company target audience for this book but that will not stop me from moving into their ranks.  Flynn's advice is not directly relevant but strikes me as a good road map from a possible future.  For example, she gives 3 separate templates for a comapany blogging policy.  I do not need than now but I am very glad to know that I can lay my hands on this if I ever need some.

 Flynn advocates pre-moderating blog comments. I think this advice can be ignored.  Even her model example, IBM, does not pre-moderate.  On this site, I have permitted un-moderated comments and registered users to create new blog entries.  We will see how this works out.

I have purchased the Azrul MyBlog and Comments plugins for Joomla to run the blog on this site.  At this point, I think the functioning of the web site is underway.

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