Justin Kistner

Updating my blog

January 12 2009, 9:19am

Along with the new year comes a host of updates for my life that will manifest throughout my online presence. For those that have been checking, my blog has been rather stale lately. It’s not that I haven’t been active online, or that I haven’t been blogging; rather that my online activity has broadened and isn’t reflected on the home page of this blog. Here’s a quick breakdown of the changes: Lifestream As I have become more integrated with communities locally and afar, the types of interaction I have are much more diverse than blog posts. Over the Holidays, I set up Sweetcron to aggregate my online activity into my lifestream. Blogging I’ve learned a ton about how and why I blog since I set up my first blog. When I started, I owned my own company and I was blogging about topics that I thought would increase traffic for landing new business; in other words for marketing. Well, I don’t own my own business anymore and I help a ton of people with blogging these days, so I’m not feeling passionate about writing blog posts to be link bait for potential customers anymore. That doesn’t mean I’m not still interested in blogging about my industry, in fact I’m going to write those posts for the business I support now, Voce Nation. On this blog, I’m going to talk more about the things I care about like Portland, the Ducks, RC helicopters, tequila and such. Home page I am planning to make my home page more of a gateway to my online presence—links to the various places I have accounts online, my lifestream feed, and some basic “about me” info. I’m planning to move my blog to http://www.justinkistner.com/blog/ as blogging becomes a part of my activity rather than all of my activity. Beer & Blog I ended up pulling out of the Legion of Tech elections for their Board of Directors to focus more on Beer and Blog. I didn’t feel like I was going to be able to give them the time commitment they deserve to get from someone else. LoT rocks and I will still help them get sponsorships, attend their events, and help in every way I can because I think what they are doing for Portland is unique and special. I attribute them with the reawakening of the Portland tech scene! Beer and Blog is hoping to bring that same DIY community spirit to more cities throughout 2009. We’re also planning to do more workshops to bring additional people into the community.