I read a post today from writer of Employee Evolution, Ryan Healy - he writes once a week for Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist. 

It was explaining how to maintain a blog and a cull time career.

So, it actually made me think about WHY I blog, or why you are seeing more from me than you ever have. 

I’ve been considering blogging for a while.  I tossed around a few subjects, several thoughts, and then did nothing but post my feelings and personal situations.  So, it was “experiential” - meaning I complained in it.  It was in LiveJournal, and I treated it like a journal, not a blog. 

Then I got this new, nifty blog in order to write to myself more.  To post my ideas and thoughts and plans without such a large audience.  To remind myself of things.  To say what I wanted to say and not worry about hurting feelings.

I think I wrote two posts.

Lots of things go on in my life, and frankly, it seemed way too cumbersome to be additionally responsible to some electronic medium.  And why was I doing it?  To be dramatically discovered as an expert on nothing-in-particular?  To be offered a book deal?

So, it really didn’t happen.  And I eschewed blogs for a while trying to get away from my attachment to electronic fascination.  Get back to basics.  Read the things you love.  Make a difference.  These were my mottos.

As I was doing those things, I realized I wanted to share them with people.  Great articles.  Green initiatives and current happenings.  Information I wasn’t sure that people were aware of - or for that matter, had time to seek out.  I know I feel overwhelmed by information these days.  And so often, it seems disconnected from personal experience or thought.  Are there trustworthy sources?  What are the things that you aren’t hearing on the 15 second blurb on your bus ride (don’t get me started on TransitTV.)

I’d been emailing my friends with links to stories that I thought were cool.  I’m sure I annoyed the crud out of them.  And then I’d have to find that email again to forward to someone else.  It became hard to keep track of the stories I was interested in in order to share them with others.

Thus, the blog presented itself again.  And I linked it to my LJ because I am connected with so many other people there who I KNOW feel the way I do. Blogging became the most efficient, economical way to keep in touch with my favorite articles, ideas, and share them with others. 

The things I care about right now are environmental concerns, personal growth and personal finances, growing Milwaukee, and great ideas.  These things give me fire and excitement on a daily basis, and I want to share them with you so you can be invigorated to action as well - whether it is action to eat better, hug your friend, smile more, or protest.

So…that’s what you’ll be seeing here.  Links to stories, my thoughts on them, information I think you might not know yet (or that needs more attention than it is getting) and general interesting stuff.  This way our reach is exponentially growing…

And thus the name is Exponential.  And you’re reading…Exponential Connections.  (Ah…I can almost hear Ted Koppel saying it, can’t you?  ;)  )