Enough already, you can’t eat awards |
Loading ...Not to take away from the honor, er, ego stroking that goes along with winning most awards, here’s something early on in sales that I learned that is very true: you can’t eat pins, plaques and awards. The award that matters the most comes in the form of something that can be deposited in the bank. So unless an award comes with a check …
Sorry Darren, this is one of silliest proposed awards I’ve ever heard of: Most Professional Blogger? Please, now how subjective is that? From the group of millions of bloggers how is any one singular, professional blogger really, legitmately going to be determined? At the end of the day I’m afraid that this would be just another dressed up popularity contest — a sham – and most everybody would nominate their favorite read, not who they deem or even know through actual business interaction to truly be the most professional. Heck, most bloggers are people telling their journal thoughts, dreams and aspirations, not even business bloggers!
And really, how would someone even know from reading someone’s blog if they were professional or not? Do posts/rants like this make me appear unprofessional? I’m sure that some do measure a blogger’s professionalism by what they blog/write about. Wait, people have bad days, all human beings do, so what if someone has a bad hair day and goes off … then does that hurt them for how professional h/she is? This thing is a bucket of worms. Professionalism to me is what happens when I actually try to do some business with a person/company, not what I read on his/her blog (unless it’s something obvious where they are openly encouraging and/or fostering unethical or illegal activity).
Recently, I contacted one of the bloggers mentioned in this “list” to do some real business and professional is far and away not the word I would use to describe our interaction. Too bad for that person because I believe strongly that a lucratrive, mutually beneficial deal existed and I know it was available. Somebody that doesn’t win any “I’m a professional” awards most likely will benefit instead and that’s the way it should be anyway.
In my mind, anyone who’s livelihood and family depend on blogging qualifies. Whether it’s consulting, blogging, programming, services, etc.
This criteria at least makes some sense. Show us the money.
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> Recently, I contacted one of the bloggers mentioned in this “list” to do some real business and professional is far and away not the word I would use to describe our interaction…
This isn’t me is it? I thought we were on good footing…
Comment by Jeremy C. Wright — December 17, 2004 @ 2:28 pm PST
I wonder if we’re talking about different things - I’m not talking about ‘professional’ as in they act professionally - but rather ‘pro’ as in it is their job, that they earn an income from their blogging - similar to Jeremy’s definition.
I agree that finding ‘the most professional blogger’ would be a very subjective exercise - and thats why I never used that term in my post.
Anyway - thanks for the feedback - it was just a spurr of the moment idea really…
Comment by Darren Rowse — December 17, 2004 @ 4:09 pm PST
[Darren Rowse:2] Hi Darren - I think if someone really wanted to do an award related to business then perhaps “Business Blogger of the Year” would work better and create less confusion than “pro blogger” — what do you think?
Otherwise I think it requires getting into parsing the meaning of “professional” (”pro” for short) which by reading your comments there’s already some confusion and only three of us are here discussing this. Imagine there being 30 or 300 or 3000 having the same confusion?
BTW Jeremy, sorry, I realize what you quoted was cryptic, but since that was a private dealing it wouldn’t be all that professional for me (how ironic, huh?) to get into that in greater detail here. If you are going to be at CES then maybe we can hook up there for a few.
Comment by TDavid — December 17, 2004 @ 11:29 pm PST
[TDavid:3] Um… It WAS me you were talking about?!!!
Email me, or drop me your number and we’ll talk about it. Please!
Comment by Jeremy C. Wright — December 18, 2004 @ 12:13 pm PST
Oh, and I’ll be at Northern Voice in February if you’re going. I’m hoping to pop down to Seattle for a day or two while I’m in Vancouver.
Comment by Jeremy C. Wright — December 18, 2004 @ 12:15 pm PST
I’m registered for Northern Voice. My sister lives up in Langley so we are planning on parlaying that weekend trip into a visit to see her family as well as me (and might bring an associate, not sure yet on that) attending this event. So I should be seeing you and others there, Jeremy.
Comment by TDavid — December 18, 2004 @ 8:00 pm PST