More About Where Things Are Going On This Site

Posted on | January 15, 2010 | No Comments

Haven’t had a lot to say lately, partly because I’ve been thinking about where I want things to go here both in direction and style.

Direction. The key focus here has been service dogs, particularly as they relate to veterans, and will continue to be. But I really like all working dogs – service dogs, police and military K-9s, search and rescue dogs, etc. – and will continue to write about those dogs as well. Which means you likely won’t ever see stuff about surfing dogs (enough with the surfing dog video, please – heartwarming, sure, but I’m totally worn out on it), skateboarding dogs, or any of a number of other feelgood dog stories you see everywhere else – sorry.

Style. Very long discussion, but the general guideline for online presence has evolved to Twitter and Facebook for short things, and blogs for longer discussions, but there’s no hard-and-fast rule about that and things have really changed in the last year. Most of that change is simply due to the pace of information, ease in quickly getting information out, interaction with readers, and what people expect in those areas – blogs aren’t necessarily the best way to handle those needs.

For now, though, the blog will stay as is, but I may do what others have and move to something like Posterous (THE platform I’d recommend now to anyone with no presence who wanted to be up-and-running quickly and easily). I already have a Posterous site (albrittain.posterous.com) but, as you’ll notice, haven’t done anything with it yet.

In that vein, note that I have added a Lifestream page which right now only shows my blog updates and Twitter feed. I want to add Facebook and LinkedIn, but the feeds available there do not provide the information I want to see at this point.

That’s where things stand for now.