Okay… RecruiterGuy blogging again – hard to imagine, right? Well for those that don’t know me, I’m a corporate recruiter that is nuts about the 2.0 side of my work. I have a few blogs or social network sites here and there where I throw pictures up or status updates about my daily life or my work as a recruiter.
I will admit that this is my first WordPress blog… Okay, not technically. Technically I’ve used WordPress for blogging before – but it wasn’t hosted by WordPress. In fact – I set up and designed several WordPress blog sites for some friends, online gaming partners, myself, and of course – my oldest daughter.
It would seem that RecruiterGuy’s daughter is a bit of a blogger herself. Of course, she seems to prefer eBlogger and I’m quite partial to the control that the notification settings and permissions give me. And then there’s the fact that she’s using Picassa already to share pictures with her friends and grandparents – with the direct tie in, it just makes sense.
Her blog content? Well other than the random thoughts of a 10yr old girl growing up in a super geeked out house – she blogs about webkinz, what else? In fact, I’m impressed with how she’s managed to figure out how to change her template to mirror her favorite webkinz of the moment. Not to mention the fact that I logged in to read her daily rant and found that she’d discovered how to import RSS feeds about webkinz into her blog.
Scary? Yeah, a bit.
When I was her age, I was happy to be blasting asteroids with a joystick or spending hours pouring over code from a geek magazine just to have a copy of Pac Man on my Commodore. Or God forbid – I was OUTSIDE!! I wasn’t posting observations or revalations about what’s great on wiki, what’s terrible on YouTube, and how I’d just created a Mii that looks exactly like some Pop Star.
She’s an amazing little muti-tasker, though. Only a week ago she had returned from dance class and gone straight to her room. I hadn’t seen much of her that day so I gave her some time to herself before heading in to see her. What did I find just 30 minutes after she’d gotten home? She was blogging, playing webkinz, chatting in GoogleTalk about homework she was grabbing on her school’s website, and creating smartlists in her iTunes based on her favorite songs of the week.
Just when I think I’m the master of multi-tasking… Is it wrong to be a little intimidated by your own 10yr old’s technical prowess? Geez.
