Siegfried Reich

The initial post in Sigi’s Blog

April 13th, 2006

So here we go.

This is the first entry in a blog on research policy, R&D issues in general and information and communication technology related news/questions. According to Technorati, this is one of 70.000 new blogs of today, this post is one of 700.000 posts today and this site is one of 34.3 Mio. blog sites overall.

Why then this blog? Well, first, my background is in hypermedia information systems so I have a natural relationship to new media (technologies). See a list of CVs; secondly, I came across an article by Jonathan Schwartz in the March 2006 issue of Harvard Business Manager, entitled “Wer bloggt, der führt/If you want to lead, blog”. Schwartz basically argues to outline a strategy and then start blogging yourself (i.e., do not have someone else blog for you). See also Johnathan’s Blogentry from November 29, 2005; thirdly, I want to keep a reference of thoughts/ideas/etc. related to my work life. And perhaps some people are willing to comment, discuss and give feedback.

To follow Johnathan’s advice, I argue my strategy to be as follows:

• Theme-wise I’ll focus on what I know, which is R&D in information systems; also, being head of research of Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, I’ll write about issues in research policy, e.g. Austria’s upcoming competence center programme (see the Austrian Research Promotion Agency for further details).
• I’ll not be writing about company details
• I’ll do my best to “be interesting”

BTW: I found Anton Zuiker’s “Blogging 101″ an excellent introduction to blogging.

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