Joining the conversation

Thanks for the invitation to guest write on your blog Walter. Isn't it great that Pajamanation now has a real blogging CEO! In time this will build an enormous amount of good will because the community of pajamaworkers and microjobs posters will be able to see the real human thinking behind the struggle to grow our global network, and not just some faceless machine.

You probably know me, Andy Roberts from the UK. So I'm going to be working with country managers to help spread the blogging habit, and linking in the local country sites to the new microjobs exchange 2. We're going to work together to find a way that can suit everyone, but not necessarily exactly the same one. To those that have registered with blogger in order to accept Walter's invitation here, I would urge you to experiment with creating a blog of your own right away. A personal blog, for the story about yourself. You already have the account setup - take it for a test drive, create, write in your own language, invite readers. That's how we'll learn. See if you can figure out how to receive all the blog feeds in a reader such as bloglines or google reader. But don't worry, I'll be organising a course about all this next month so we can really push forward as a growing network.

I've been working with blogs, wikis, screencasts etc for a few years and I write about PajamaNation mainly on DARnet. I've been experimenting with enhancements to WordPress recently and I'm very confident that we'll be able to get the simplicity and flexibility we are going to need from this popular and mature open source platform. If you'd like to be one of the early adopters then just let me know. But building the PajamaNation is not really a technical task, it's a social one. I'd like to get the idea across that we are not so much involved in the old attitude of publishing content here, but taking part in a conversation. A public conversation involving managers, customers, CEO, the general public and bloggers on the internet. We're going to need to learn how to listen and learn as much as how to write and respond. And it's going to be fun!