Losing my voice

Blogging and social media have given us all a chance to do something which is unprecedented in human history. The net has provided us with the platform to publish our stuff. And to talk to other folk publishing their stuff. The very language of blogging itself creates a zone of common interest and is a source of endless fun. Over several years - and without meaning to - I acquired my own style. I am not a serious blogger. For long periods my blog has languished in winters of neglect. I have a life outside computers. And outside the blogosphere. But it has always been there. A route to market if you will. A communication channel. And in that channel I have from time to time had my 2 cents on a number of subjects. In all that time I have tried and succeeded in keeping my professional life separate from my blog. In that way clients - and potential clients were not exposed to my juvenile rants. It is for example very difficult to propose certain content management systems to people if on your own blog you publish the view that it sucks. Which CMS do very frequently.

But recently my life has changed. I have become corporateified. People I work with know where my blog is - not that they read it. :). But nevertheless it is here and on public view. And for that reason I now feel completely inhibited in writing about what I would like to write about. And I feel a terrible loss. I have lost my freedom and my voice.

Even more frustratingly this has happened at the very time when my life has become filled with anecdotal oportunities from my every day experience in an agency. I do not really know how I am going to deal with this connundrum.

• He needs to change at Crewe
• A memo from the client.
• Fire the marketing department