Well, He’s At It Again
You won’t necessarily know it from looking at it, but this site’s running on Squarespace. Why? Because Chloë Forbes-Kindlen uses Squarespace and makes it amazing, and she helped me cobble this together. (This is NOT a great demonstration of her skill. I pled with her to keep this boring and simple.)
A New Website? Again?
Well, first, take a look around. A lot of the posts down below this one are from the old chrisbrogan.com that ran on Rainmaker. Chloë salvaged them and kept them in a little box somewhere, even though I told her to throw them away. You can thank HER that you can browse through old things, but if I had my way, you wouldn’t bother with it.
Why Another Blog?
This takes a tiny bit of unpacking.
First, Twitter is dead. I think that’s sad, but it’s what it is. Second, I think we’re tired of blathering out into the wild blue yonder on social platforms. We primp and preen there, if we want to sell something or sell ourselves, but I think we’re craving community, and that requires a much smaller group of people gathering around our stuff. It’s the opposite of marketing the way we’ve tried it for the last 20 years. I think people want to group up tightly around like-minded-ness.
Second, I am an author. I write. It’s what I do. It’s how I think. Some of my thoughts fit my newsletter. Others fit my LinkedIn page. But sometimes, I just want a place to talk with you that doesn’t have the same requirements. And that’ll be here. For now.
A Year With No Blog
Did I miss not blogging? Hell no. Because I write so much and so often. Who cares what format? And I really thought my little Cardd site was cute. Chloë made that, too.
But now, this will be where I muse about the things that excite me, complain because that’s what blogging can be, and observe, because a lot of what I do is observational. Did you ever notice that? ;)
Stuck with Me
No more throat clearing. My next post will be about something. I’m sure. And oh - it won’t be daily or on any specific cadence. I hope you get to it when you do. I’ll write when I feel like it. It’ll be good that way. Like a friendship.
Fair?
Chris…
