Mr. Jones’ Diary

Another insightful response to the “no time” excuse for not blogging:

http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/weblog/answering_the_time_objection/

Shel’s absolutely correct.

A case in point:

When my sister’s husband was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, she complained to me that she couldn’t keep up with all the phone calls and e-mails from concerned people. My advice to her was to start a blog, which she did.

My suggestion was for purely pragmatic reasons – to save time. Instead of repeating herself over and over, she could direct people to the blog, formulate her thoughts once, and everyone was up to date. It was a great solution.

Little did I know, it would become a vehicle of incredibly poignant communications, both from my sister and her family to all concerned, as well as from the concerned parties back again, forming a world-wide network of well-wishers – a true support network.

So not only is there time to be gained by blogging when there are things to communicate (and when aren’t there?), the rewards can be tremendous.