This blog is about technology for writers. It is about how to use technology to help market a writer’s work.
But, it’s really about how to use technology to start and enhance relationships with readers.
For those of us in the technology business, we can get pretty engrossed in our technology. We can get hung up on the next shiny thing out there. We can write passionately about the need to upgrade your blog software from WordPress 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 because of the security. Or we can Twitter with others and proclaim it to be a networking tool.
Balderdash.
It’s important to maintain your technology, just like it is to maintain your home. But it’s not about the home or the technology, it’s about the people who are in the home or using the technology.
If technology can’t help you enhance your relationships with people, or the way you use the technology inhibits your relationships with people, then we should all stop using the technology. If technology becomes a barrier to meeting, chatting, and working with people, we need to change how we use it in our work.
In the end, it’s about people. Writer’s know that. As you embrace new technology in your writing work, notice whether or not the technology helps you in your relationship with people or how it could. That’s the measure of something that will work for you.
Scot
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Yvonne Russell 09.02.07 at 9:08 am
Wonderfully said, Scot! This is so true. It’s easy to get carried away by “the next shiny thing”, as you say.