How to tell a doer from a talker, & encouraging audience participation
I accept that I can achieve much more working with other people than alone. There’s all the myers briggs stuff about teamwork and personalities, and I know exactly where I am on that - I desperately need some contrasting personalities on my team. It’s just ironic that I’m highly unlikely to find someone like that to work with bog on a promise because the personalities I need will be very risk adverse, and unlikely to commit unless they are sure that they can meet the commitment.
It has to be said that I’ve been dissapointed in the past by people who say they want to be involved in projects, but don’t actually pull through on their commitment. I guess you just learn to live with it. Or maybe it’s something more about me? Maybe I should hastle people more to do what they said they would. But I’m pretty sure that’s not a big part of my psychological make-up. And surely it’s not up to me to police the level of commitment of others?
Anyway, so I’m opening up bogblog.org to other people because it doesn’t seem to have had much use from Keele Enviro Entrepreneurs. I was nervous before to let people put comments on the site, but I think I need to learn to take the rough with the smooth & give anyone who reads any of this the chance to answer back. I think that I was probably more than a little hesitant to let anyone criticise my ‘baby’.
I’m really not into spectating - I don’t like going to see live music - I’d rather talk with friends. At the same time I love singing… my perfect live music concert would be one where the band put the lyrics of their songs up, karaoke style, while they performed. Why don’t bands use the corus as the chorus? it should be the bit where the audience gets to take part.
Anyway, so I uploaded video clips onto You Tube for the first time last night. Again, lots of people that want to create, rather than spectate. I wonder if the BBC has plans yet to make a weekly ‘best of You Tube’ broadcast? It’s all a bit hit and miss when you’re searching through the site for interesting stuff yourself - but it was so, so much more entertaining than anything that was actually on TV at the time (including all the freeview channels & Telewest Replay - is there anything worth watching on UK telly other than Extras, I’m with Stupid & Dogtown?).
So, if I want to produce, rather than consume media, it’s only right that I leave the comments open on bogblog.org.
Now I need some doers to help me sort out bog.