The Year of Blogging Dangerously
"If you are thinking of starting a blog--work related or not--ask first. There are likely opinions about what can be said," I blogged in my first
entry. But what has really happened in the last year?
While I suspect our hospital administrators never read this blog, they didn't forget about it. More than once the CEO told visitors when introducing me, "Scott has a blog." And my immediate supervisor suggested several ideas for blog entries.
Several ideas sparked from work. My short series "Quick and Dirty" describes a batch file I created instead of using the quality assessment tool in our LIS. We use a monthly newsletter as described in "Understanding Tests" to market our laboratory to physicians. And "Taboo Chatter" pondered a new policy of no politics at work, a near impossibility in 2008.
Just as often, blogging helped me clarify an idea or consider something new that I brought to work. "It's All About the Nurses" led to discussions at meetings about the differences in our respective professions. "Winning the Blame Game" helped me think about ways to approach incident reports in a more positive, constructive way. And "Millennials and Perennials" sparked interesting conversations about our future.
I've had two rules: no blogging at work, and no talking about this blog at work. Once or twice I've broken the latter if an idea ("Problem Evolution") has excited me. But generally, work has stayed work and blogging has stayed blogging. This has helped me to avoid blogging about it so much as against it, like mutual sounding boards.
OK, so not much really happened at work because of this blog. Maybe, asking first made all the difference.
Veni, Vidi, Blogi. It continues, as an evening tech I knew used to say.