Welcome to Blogging Maryam
Maryam has joined the world of bloggers. Welcome, Maryam! You are off to a great start. I loved your musings on pillows, blankets and partners!
Maryam's partner is an uber-blogger. I think I should tell my husband about Maryam's blog. I'm no uber-blogger, but I sure blog a lot. There is something slightly asymetrical about a pair that blog/don't blog. In a way, it is very healthy. One balances the other.
In another way, it is as of one has a different universe available for conversation and connection, while the other one only looks on, and wonders, why is he/she laughing/crying/scowling at their computer monitor? What, or WHO is there?
Until you experience WHO is there, it is hard to really fathom.
So, Maryam, welcome to the blogging world. It is great to have you among us. Sending blogging beams across Lake Washington to ya!
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posted by Nancy White at 2:31 PM
1 Comments:
The things I find on your blog Nancy, blow me away! I recently met Maryam and asked her to help me out with a customer event in a rather time-pressurized situation (I was the one being cooked quickly). She strode in with confidence, good humor, and a down-to-earth, get it done, try and try again attitude that was such a perfect fit, I will never again contract the services of another event coordinator as long as she is available and wants the job.
Backing away from her personally, it's interesting to observe that her blogging style thus far is very similar to the other A-list "companion bloggers". Without digging any deeper, this might sound insulting or debasing but I certainly don't think it is. In fact, quite the opposite. Maryam's blog probably enables her to do something she needs to do as a person: express herself and define who she is.
Maryam is married to a true A-list blogger, a guy whose many blog posts are read by tens of thousands of people from all walks of life around the world every day. Consequently, he is a person who many believe is the 2nd or 3rd most recognizable Microsoft employee: Robert Scoble.
Maryam is a whole person, true, but she is also a public personality, like it or not. Unless she develops and projects her own voice online, my guess is that people are bound to project their own imagined Maryam onto the real one. It's nice to see her grab the reins and going back to my earlier comment, I see a lot of "companion blogger" in her posts to date (compare to her good friend Ponzi, for instance).
Okay, I'm too tired to be cogent. It's grrreat to see Maryam has her own blog. It's interesting that she started it a couple of days after CodeSlam...
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