The joy of letting go
I am not your typical IT person, I am definitely think of myself as part of the communication in ICT. Providing assistance in the technological side of communicating over the internet. Yet I behaved like your typical IT person when asked to find a blogging solution a year ago. I wanted a local install of WordPress, because:
- I knew how it worked;
- in my opinion the best blogging software out there;
- a local install gave us more configuration and contro options.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, a typical IT territorial dispute. No local server was available, so the WordPress.com alternative was used. At the time I thought it was far from the perfect solution, but it was the best available at the time.
A year down the track and I now realised that WordPress.com was the best solution. I provide technical advice, a little help but I am not involve in the running the blog, like I would of done with a local install. Instead, the people who wanted the blog, set it up, own it and regularly contribute to it. And to me that makes the blog a success, not whether we have the best set up, the best configuration or control.