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The Blog Herald On Blogging Pay Rates

Someone recently sent me an email asking me if I make a lot of money. Well although I am a compensated blogger (which is not my primary profession since I do a mix of management consulting and hired gun start-up work as my day job), I am surely not making tons of money from contracted blogging. The Blog Herald sheds some good light on market rates for compensated bloggers.

Blogging is primarily a networking and learning experience for me. But there’s another aspect. I have had a fortunate life both personally and professionally, I view blogging as a way for me to give something back to the world in small doses. I keep looking for ways to build even bigger social marks on the world. Not quite where I want to be in helping the social good, but part of the fun is in the hunt.

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Testing Out FeedBlitz

I’m testing out FeedBlitz as an email subscription method for people to get blog updates of the Feedburner feed of this blog. I know that there are still some renegade RSS feeds out there, but I haven’t got the bandwidth to consolidate. See the righthand side of the blog for the new FeedBlitz form window. Hat tip to Fred Wilson.

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On Monday Will Run Q&A With A CIO Blogger

This coming Monday, I will run a Q&A with Will Weider, CIO of Affinity Health Systems, who blogs at The Candid CIO. Affinty Health System is network of 17 clinics, three hospitals, a long-term care facility and a health plan, so it’s quite of mix of clinic, ambulatory, etc. environments which not all healthcare providers have. The first Q&A at The CIO Weblog will provide some insight as to why he blogs, what blogs he follows, and his perspective on employee blogging. If you are interested in healthcare and/or a case of CIO blogging, be sure to tune in next week. Thanks in advance to Will for making himself available!

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Feeling Humble In Dallas

If you are ever in Dallas, I think that it is worthwhile to see perhaps the largest fossilized sea turtle in the world at the Dallas Museum of Natural History. It is called the Protostega, and is estimated to be around 90 million years old. The one I link to here (photographed next to a person in 1929) is apparently one the other large turtles (10%-15% shorter) in the world at the Yale Peabody Museum. When you stand underneath the Protostega in Dallas, it looks bigger than a car by a lot. Although dinosaurs are impressive too, the Protostega is basically a turtle. Imagine snorkeling up next to one of these things in Hawaii or something.

Although I enjoy art, wine, education, music, and playing the drums, this is one example of life that reminds me to stay balanced in life. Live, Love, Learn, & Leave and Legacy.

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Fred Wilson On Geography And Venture Capital

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson has expanded on my earlier post related to the relationship of venture capital and geography. He outlines some concrete examples of board meetings and other f2f items that aren’t as effective remote. People shouldn’t get too discouraged by "location, location, location", however. Venture capital is not exactly real estate, but geography surely plays a strong role (accentuated for early-stage ventures) in ways too detailed to go into here.

As an additional note, remember that VCs are also networked, networked, networked. In a prior post, I related a prior recruiting encounter with a VC in another geography as brokered by a VC in a different geography. I’m not even sure my contact information was public at the time when the brokering occurred. Deals and information of all kinds get passed around (hopefully, not passed on). So one can’t give up just because of geography. Just be very sensitive to it and recognize the customer concerns.

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