The 'August Daily' challenge: "In the I.T. Trench"

I thought Cole's idea was interesting. He's decided to do a daily blog post every weekday for August, with the goal of it being a relevant, themed, in-depth article. Some people do this anyway with their blogs, some post less in-depth but more frequently, but to set the goal to chase makes it interesting again.

Mostly for me because I can never stick to my goals. Some of is is that I get bored with it, and don't inject life back into it to keep it interesting. Some of it is that I chase the shiny thing and abandon the commitment. Some of it is that I keep getting ideas that I want to try out; that's the big one, since it's put me in a place of having a dozen unfocused projects on the table.

So why not add another!

Content. That's the issue with this one. Cole mentions that he'll be pulling from data relevant to local and national sources related to the discoveries and experiences that feed into what he's working with. Well, I don't have that so much, being mostly I.T. Support, but I do have personal experience from being in many venues of support, so my take on my particular trench might be interesting.

I decided that planning might be a good ingredient; it's something I don't do a great deal of when I blog: I tend to post when it strikes me (another detriment to consistent content, by the way, for those of you keeping score). So, to start out, I thought if I can't come up with enough topics, I'm not doing this at all. Well, as it turns out, I was able to bang out a list of 21 items instantly, so I think I'm set.

Stay tuned, my August Daily, "In the I.T. Trench" is on the way.