Dec 30, 2010 / News

Signing up? Here’s a sample post

To help you on your way – here’s a sample post you can use on your own blog to announce your participation. Feel free to copy/paste, modify or improve to your heart’s desire:

Title: I’m Posting every day in 2011!

I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now.  I will be posting on this blog once a day / once a week for all of 2011.

I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can.

If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.

Signed,

<Your Name Here>

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  2. Signing up late in the year but ‘better late than never’. This should challenge and motivate me to keep at it- writing a post at least once a week for my newish blog 🙂 Thanks a bunch for the idea!

    Look forward to joining the ‘community of writers’!

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  3. Hey guys!
    I’m just getting into this whole blogging thang and decided that this should help motivate me to make this a long term thing. Follow if you want (I know you don’t want to/won’t, but hey).

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  7. I know I’m late, but I’m also new to the blog world. This seems like a good idea for me to make my time on the internet seemingly useful. Cheers!

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  9. Ok, even though it’s the last day of September, I’m going to try this…two blogs a week will be about all I can handle for October, might step it up in November! Thanks for the challenge. Christine

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  10. I think this will be fun! I hope the rest of the world is ready for my unique perspectives on life! My Blogs will be a humorous look at my life situations through the eyes of a deceptively intelligent air-head!

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  11. Here goes my post:
    How do you react to the news that somebody else you know has been selected to the position you applied for?

    Normal first and civilized reaction should be ‘Congratulations X, you deserved it’, right? Wrong!

    What if I have a better skillset for the position? What if I am tri-lingual and you just speak english? but then again, I must smile and take the news with professionalism,as this is just business, just another day in the office, and we can’t do anything when somebody else is calling the shots.

    At the end of the day, we are the architechts of our own destiny, and our current positions in our lifes are the direct results of our previous desicions.

    That is what I’ve learned today.

    I applied to another position within the number one software company in the world, and the jerks selected another without hesitation. I guess is the direct result of my action of resigning as full time employee for 6 years and telling my manager: ” you are not good enough for me as a manager, professionally, I am better than you and I am leaving because you are blocking my career development path and you are stealing my job and exhibiting it as yours”.

    The fact that I resigned, the number one software company of the world can’t take it , and they are not willing to take me back, and I need to live with the consequences of my desicion.

    A year after that I came back as a vendor, as a consultant, and another year after that I applied for the position I am been told today that they managed to select somebody else for a position that I am currently performing, and by the feedback of my manager , I am doing it pretty damn well, and still, is not enough to be selected.

    So, not only I have to suck it up, but also I have to train the selected guy on what will be his job, and when he is ready, I’ll be fired.

    It really sucks, so I guess I am just another inhabitant of the cruel corporate world and I was cruel enough to say to my previous manager ‘You suck as manager and therefore I quit’

    It will be different if I would have taken the approach to provide ‘constructive feedback’ and said to the fat, chuwing gum, stupid smile lady: “I do not appreciate the fact that you are stealing my work and taking t the credit for something you didn’t do at all. how can we be proactively address the issue ?’

    Nah, I am glad I said what I said and hey, after all, as a consultant, I have less crappy corporate things to do such as the depresive “Moral events” that are demoralizing completely, I do not have to create my ‘annual commitments’ and work my a** so I can ‘contribute as part of the team’ and support the humilliating performance reviews where normally I exceeded expectations on my commitments, but always, the managers found ‘areas of opportunity to improve’ or ‘strecht assignments for career development’.

    Look, I am not looking for empathy here, I am just honeslty expressing and venting my frustration of these days, where we are lucky if we have a job. Don’t get me wrong, I sincerely appreciate what I got today, as there are many out there without anything, and believe me, I’ll suck it up, I’ll do a excellent job in transitioning and training my replacement, and I’ll be thankfull to my current employer for the chance I have, and I’ll be ready for the next gig.

    But still, I think we live in a cruel, corporate World that doesn’t encourage honest, open communication. Do you agree?

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    1. Of the many people that read your post I’m sure at least half of them will feel your pain…though I note you’re not looking for that. You sound like the type of person I’d like to work with as that depth of honesty is always refreshing, if not a little confronting. When I resigned a few years ago after a similar incident I took the diplomatic approach and wrote “it’s clear we have different goals and different values so in the best interests of everyone I’m resigning”. Not quite a ‘KAPPOW!’ moment, but my boss knew what he’d had done, smacking him in the face with it would have been superfluous, walking out with dignity was much more unnerving. This is not to say that the occasional KAPOWIE! moment isn’t called for.

      It makes good business sense to have a working environment in which there is honest and open communication but unfortunately some businesses are run by particular personality types who are threatened by the loss of control or changes such practices might bring. In the end, it’s not really about business, it’s about personalities. Strong departments are headed by those that empowered the people under them and that takes a certain type of person. Yes, I agree we will in a cruel corporate world but it sounds like you have the fortitude and strength of character to beat it, or at the very least not be beaten by it. But right now, you are fully entitled to feel frustrated and this does suck! Just don’t forget, that integrity always wins out in the end, so it sounds like you’re going to be okay!

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  12. I think this is going to be a great stress buster, and it will surely bring out the best in me…so GET SET GO!!!
    POST A DAY…here I come!

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  16. I put together my true story and I called it “From Terror to Freedom”. Anytime I read any part of it tears come into my eyes.
    Mano Bakh
    From Terror to Freedom

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  18. I just started a short story called “The Great Squirrel Massacre”. I made some observations this fall. One observation was the dearth of acorns on the ground at my favorite pond,Beaver Pond, in Franklin, MA. Next I noticed many squirrels flying across the roads, scampering, hopping, trying to get across the road before a car cut off their short life. I stop for squirrels. If a squirrel bounds in front of my car, I stop.

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  23. As a beginner of photography, I’m interested; and, I’m signing up. I know this will be a CHALLENGE, seriously lol. But, I enjoy challenges; and, I am interested in photography a lot. So, this will give me a chance to be more creative. Also, productive.

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  24. I just started a blog. I think I will participate. This will be a challenge, in a addition to Nano. 🙂

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  28. Keen to ignite discussion and sharing in the WP community. We blog with an aim to demystify digital for Small to Medium Businesses.

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