Desirable Roasted Coffee goes on retreat

Picky Desirable Roasted Coffee readers will have discerned a paucity of posts this month. "Coffee getting weak?" some have asked. Some of you have even intimated there's some sort of latte thing going on (perish the thought!). Even the Antipodean doyen stirred himself.

Here's the low-down. I'm putting Desirable Roasted Coffee into retreat for the rest of the month. Yep, no coffee for you! Not until after New Year's, unless I just happen to find a tip or a pointer that I cannot resist.

Until I get back with a full pot of Navy Joe ... January 1, I promise ... take a look at the "Ideas" section of my blogroll. Most of the writers there have nothing to do with communication and.. yet... they all communicate with grace and power. A lot of us could learn from them. Just a tip.

What am I doing in the next three weeks about Desirable Roasted Coffee? Looking again at purpose. The point. Snarkiness vs. whatever the opposite of snarkiness is. Considering podcasting -- and how would that be different? Reading every post, every comment, and every trackback in the last 14 months; printing random parts, and asking folks for feedback.

Including you.

If Desirable Roasted Coffee bores you to tears, write me -- and let me know why. If you have DRC on your reading list, I'd like to know why. If I have ever made you throw up your hands in frustration or nod your head in agreement, I'd love to know why. And if I've done neither -- oooff.... let me know about that, too.

All confidentially. Or you can comment here.

For the next three weeks...  be good, my friends.

Allan

Posted by Allan Jenkins on December 8, 2005 at 08:14 PM in Desirable Roasted Coffee | Permalink

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I read this one for the thought-provoking or laugh-provoking variety. The link to the Onion - which I have fallen out of the habit if reading weekly - was alone worth the time I've spent here. Keep it up and thanks.

Posted by: Tim Hicks | Dec 9, 2005 4:53:05 AM

Struth!

Just got back from Melbourne and have opened up GreatNews to see what I've missed (not much by the looks of it -- people must be busy).

I'll reply off-blog but just had to let you know that your request deserves serious consideration, which I will give it.

When I read that Dan York has around the same number of subscribers to his podcast as I have to mine, after just a few weeks, then I need to give consideration to just what my frequency versus content quality ratio should be. And should I even bother? (Dumb question; of course I should, even if just to show that I have a working understanding of the medium.)

Let me mull, dear boy, and get back to you...

Posted by: Lord Hopkins of Mylor | Dec 11, 2005 8:26:16 AM

I'm prepared to argue that there's societal benefits of keeping feet to the fire when individuals accept volunteer positions in organizations with dues-paying members. DRC has done this.

And I'm prepared to argue that there's societal value to provoking new ways of thinking. DRC has done this.

In the olden days, newspapers had crusading publishers. Their goal was to improve some part opr otehr of their universe.

As you think about the point of DRC, can you come up with a list of ways you have made any part of your world better.

Maybe you just built some fame for yourself and it translated into some new business. To maintain that fame, you need to keep going. Like a good ethical newspaper, the writing must be good,honest, and interesting for the readers to keep coming.

So if DRC keeps going, and readers keep coming because they want to readyour words, and you keep getting more business,... well, that a point in faovr of keeping on.

In Today's Globe and Mail in Canada, a former reporter writes about his first term as an MBA student, and what he's learned. He remarks on the triple bottom line of business, one of those three lines being Corporate Social Responsibility.

Do you believe in this? If you do, DRC can campaign in favor of developing this concept more strongly, all around the world. You can reach huge audiences, and you can't deliver a hunmdred lectures on this concept in the next year. Neigther can I. But IABC can, and DRC can lean on IABC, and maybe get it to stop its inward focus and look outward.

That, it seems to me, might well be a point in favor of keeping on.

Jack O'Dwyer writes about PRSA. You and I write about IABC. I write about CPRS. Ragan writers write about IABC and PRSA. All of us have influence and all of us are making these organizations at least think about what we want them thinking about.

If you (and I, and Jack and Steve and David, and to a significant extgent Shel, and...)believe change in these organizations would be "better for the world" you should keep on.

The trade-off, of course, is that you've done lots already and now you can leave it to the next generation.

Which brings us to the final question: "what have you got to do in the same amount of time that would bring you more satisfaction?"

Posted by: Brian Kilgore | Dec 23, 2005 8:17:51 PM

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