{"id":290,"date":"2009-08-03T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/08\/03\/on_the_show_so_far\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T21:26:59","slug":"on_the_show_so_far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/08\/03\/on_the_show_so_far\/","title":{"rendered":"On the show so far"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I logged in this morning at work the operating system kindly informed me that my password was to expire in six days, and asked if I wanted to change it. This is the third time it’s done this to me, which means I’ve been at the new gig for nearly four months, so it must be about time for a quick update on what happened when I left the void<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\nAs my profile<\/a> said until a few minutes ago, I was supposed to be taking up the post of ‘Business Development Manager’ at F1000<\/a>, the premier site for post-publication peer review (cough). Which was all well and good: I thought I’d be doing the web 2\/social media schtick; a bit of writing, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

\nFirst day in, chairman takes me into his office and says ‘about your job title…’. <\/p>\n

\nA little while later, I’m in a daze. I’m not merely a BDM with responsibility for a tiny part of the F1000 behemoth. No, I am the information architect (which sounds better than ‘web master’\u2014hey, we even have our own journal<\/a>, HT Georg<\/a>). What’s more, F1000 is mine. I mean, mine<\/em>: cackling, stroking white cats and feeding useless henchmen to sharks mine. (I have to report to the chairman, but it’s still pretty good going for a guy who still has Gilson’s Thumb.)<\/p>\n

\nIt was as if I’d gone for a swim in a rock pool and suddenly had the whole Pacific dumped on me. Scary and exciting and breathless all at once. <\/p>\n

\nFour months down the line it’s still like that. I seem to be doing about four jobs: including PR and BDM and social media maven1<\/a><\/sup> and negotiator to the UN. I keep getting asked to lunch with various luminaries at very short notice. I had the final say-so on the new logo (to the extent of getting the vector files from the real designer and tweaking myself) and interviewed PR manager candidates. I’ve put the new website in front of some very important people and had to decide what will and won’t make it to launch. I’ve got a corporate credit card, I’ve hired two freelancers and have invoice-signing authority. I’ve set up, and provide all the content for, a Facebook<\/a> page, a Linkedin<\/a> group, a twitter<\/a> feed and a blog<\/a>\u2014all without turning into Bora. I’ve edited and written press releases, been very firm<\/em> with some people and soothing towards others (sometimes the sets overlap) and still haven’t finished re-writing the ‘About’ pages.<\/p>\n

\nIt’s great.<\/p>\n


\nfn1. That’s an ironic use of the word ‘maven’, in case you wondered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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