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Hey Dude! You read my mind. I was found redundant a month ago (although not redundant enough to be let go immediately) and I came the same conclusion. I still like my future-former employer and wish them well. With their changes I truly am redundant. It's not their fault.

But I'm going to make some changes here. For the first time in my life I am not going to look for a job. I'm going to build one.

Okay so what's next?.
Strangely enough being made redundant on Monday was not the most unnerving that has happened to me this week.
What is more unnerving is my decision not to look immediately for another job. Instead I have made the decision to see if I can make an adhoc mixture (as I see it now) of blogging, k-logging, knowledge management, intranets, collaboration and communities into a compelling business proposition and make a living from it.

For some time now I have wanted to strike out in my own direction. To lead rather than be led. It seems fate just handed me my chance. This is not a risk-free strategy, and I'm just beginning to admit to myself what I'm letting myself in for.
So from here onwards I will happily entertain any offers of work, suggestions about what works (and what doesn't). Ideas, novel solutions, novel problems. It's all good. I've also got an acre of understanding to do, here goes!
Suddenly I feel like I am growing into my weblog title.
Matt [Curiouser and curiouser!]

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Blogs for System Status

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Phil Windley is CIO for the state of Utah and this guy is thinking like I'm thinking -- a $40 enterprise reporting system. I found Windley's Enterprise computing Weblog via David Gurteen and Windley has some great stuff.

Blogs for System Status Communications.
My organization operates hundreds of servers in several data centers and a network that connects over 250 separate locations. One of the problems we have is status communication to various interested parties. Tonight I decided we should have a system status blog that uses categories with separate RSS feeds for various severity levels and systems. For the low price of $40/year we could have:

One easy spot to post status announcements, which would be ordered in exactly the right way.
A web-based record of status.
Multiple RSS feeds of the various systems and severity levels.
Easy integration into the personalization feature of our intranet; RSS feeds would show up as gadget boxes for people who want them.
The ability to easily subscribe to RSS feeds and digest them in various ways for people with special needs.
How could you not like that?
[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

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