“You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” — Author Unknown
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” ~George Bernard Shaw
Over the years, The Writers K—and you too, perhaps?—have wondered about our silence in the blogosphere. Like you, we’ve kept up with trends in our particular spheres of interest—writing, technology, small business, nonprofits—learning about new tools and perspectives that inspire us in our writing and in our lives. We’ve had newsfeeds and blogs pinging our inboxes, stuffing us full of information we find helpful to our business or our personal lives. But how, we’ve all wondered, do The Writers K feel about all of these developments? What lights the fire that is obviously burning through the swiftly-typing fingers of those Writers K?
This, then—this cheekily named KLog—is our foray into the congested highway of conversation. We hope we’ve looked carefully enough before stepping out into the traffic.
You, too, probably subscribe to several blogs or newsletters in your areas of interest—requests for subscriptions are hard to avoid: look up ‘photocopier issues,’ and you’ll be invited to Ned’s blog about his life in the copy room. (Note to self: unsubscribe from Ned’s Copy Room Chronicles when you get a chance).
If you’re in the nonprofit world, you may have checked out Social Velocity about managing your limited resources more effectively (or if you haven’t, you might try it). Small Business Brief is a great gathering ground of information and trends for small businesses from across the web, making it easy for both writers (us) and entrepreneurs (you) to stay on top of the market.
If our house plants are properly watered and the kids fed, we can pop over to satisfy our English major-y yearning for literary criticism and commentary at The Elegant Variation. The Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet, satisfies our need to keep up on the world of poetics (How do we do it all, you ask? Simple. We’re The Writers K).
There’s so much information on which to feed, and so little time to exercise those thought-calories out. And that’s just it—for The Writers K, social media has been a one-way information feast (the number of analogies for all of this is staggering). We’ve become, well, clogged (okay, groan if you will, klogged). We feel the time’s come to send our own thoughts about writing, marketing, nonprofits and life pinging in the other direction.
Please join us here to find out how language affects our world, and how our language can affect yours.
