Sunday 11 September 2011

Do I really need to keep on top of things?

Right so maybe that's not the best title I can give a blog post seeing as this post is specifically about Things 8 and 9  which were set out in July ... and where're now in September!  Maybe I do need to keep on top of things!

But I'm just not certain how Google calendar and Evernote are going to do it for me. 

My online engagement is broken into two distinct categories - professional and personal (like most people). My profesional engagement has been increasing due to the course and my general willingness to engage, but my personal engagement has plateaued to email and Facebook.  That's about it.  In fact, if I don't check my email or FB account, I wouldn't be online at all in my personal time.

So whydo I need a Google calendar? My professional role is very rarely related to people outside my organisation and I keep offline calendars for my social life.

As for maintaining a list of websites which can be annoted and include images, well, I wouldn't bother doing that for my personal life and I rarely need to do it for my professional life.  Maybe this is me showing my unwillingness to change and resisting the new modern ways of thinking, but I just don't see the point now.  And, if I did want to engage with something, I think something like Delicious would be enough for me.

So do I need need help keeping on top of things - yes. But probably not using these online tools.  Find me in a year or two and we'll see where I am with my change management.  Maybe I'll have caught up with the rest of the world by then.