August 31st, 2008
What to Expect on My Blog(s) Over the Next Nine Months
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Now that my blog is my work for the next nine months, I thought it will be useful to redefine the focus of my blog(s), both as a guide to my readers and to myself.
During my tenure as the Yahoo! Fellow at Georgetown University, my official fellowship blog — How Global Values Shape Communications Technologies — will be my main blog. In my daily posts on the blog, I’ll mostly focus on how social media will be used differently in BRIC countries as compared to US/ EU, but also riff frequently on the broader theme of how international values apply to the development and use of new communications technologies in BRIC countries. From mid-September, I will start hosting a weekly podcast with thinkers and practitioners from the social media and social entrepreneurship fields, and from mid-December, I will become involved in inviting and editing contributions for a crowd-sourced paper (or e-book) on how global values shape communications technologies. So, my fellowship blog will demand most of my time and energy and I would urge you to subscribe to it in a feed reader or by e-mail.
On Gauravonomics Blog, I’ll continue to write daily posts on marketing, technology and social media. My big thrust will be on my daily vidcast where I’ll do short riffs on ideas and issues that interest me. Apart from these daily riffs, I’ll do a Monday morning weekly digest of Indian marketing/ technology/ social media blogs, a Wednesday morning weekly digest of Washington DC marketing/ technology/ social media blogs, and a Friday morning “thought anchor” post that will be a 1000-1500 word summary of all that I know about a topic. If you haven’t subscribed to Gauravonomics Blog yet, I would urge you to subscribe to it now in a feed reader or by e-mail.
My Off-Consumption Blog will see some serious changes soon, with the focus shifting from my own year-long off-consumption experiment to other people who have stepped off the work-watch-spend treadmill, or asked themselves difficult questions about identity, or chosen to define themselves by means other than buying or owning things. With the shift to the immersive journalism or ethnography mode, I’ll be writing only one 1000-1500 word post per week on this blog. If you haven’t subscribed to the blog yet, now is a good time to subscribe, either in a feed reader or via e-mail.
Finally, I’ll be posting infrequent poems, stories and personal essays on Gauravonomics Diary. I would suggest that you subscribe to it (in a feed reader or by e-mail) only if you know me personally or think of me as a friend.
Apart from my four blogs, I’ll also be writing frequent guest posts on some popular marketing, technology and social media blogs, so my blog has really become my work. My situation reminds me of the popular saying — you should be careful of what you ask for, in case your wish comes true — not that I’m complaining (yet).
