Friday, May 26,2006
Write For IBMeye
IBMeye, part of the b5media network, is currently looking for a writer who won’t drink the water.
There must be something in the water around here as we cant seem to keep an IBM Eye writer. Im currently sourcing a new author. If anyone out there is interested, please drop me a line at jon@b5media.com.
Don’t know if mentioning that you can’t keep a writer instills confidence in potential applicants or not, but I thought it was worth mentioning regardless.
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May 26th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
We considered shutting the blog down. It takes a very specific type of person to write about IBM. We’re glad we gave the experiment a shot but it was just that: an experiment.
May 26th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
So, I’ll assume if b5 can’t find a regular contributer to the IBMeye blog, you’ll officially close its doors?
May 26th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Yep. We won’t make an announcement or anything, it’ll just drop off the blogroll.
May 26th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
Thanks for the confirmation Jeremy.
May 31st, 2006 at 11:25 pm
I’d also note in terms of writers that like any network (or company for that matter) that we do have turn over in writers, so leave due to personal reasons, some are poached, some want a change. We’re proud of our retention rate in terms of bloggers and we really have very low turn over in terms of writers. IBM Eye is just a blog that we’ve had a couple of writers on, and it’s really the exception to the rule, and as Jeremy mentioned, it’s very niche in its topic as well. We will be dropping it if we can’t find a writer, some blogs work, occasionally some dont
June 1st, 2006 at 12:15 am
Understandable Duncan.
I’d had to see a blog get shut down, so I hope you can find someone to fill the position, but sometimes it’s inevitable.
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:43 pm
It’s worth mentioning that we have something like 80 bloggers that stay with us. One blog that’s hard to man because of its topic is hardly indicative that we “can’t keep a writer”
Little research next time please, A.
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Jon,
Please clue me in, when did I say the whole of b5media couldn’t keep a writer?
Maybe you should have taken the post in the spirit it was intended - a puckish response to your own words. Or did you forget you wrote you couldn’t keep an IBM Eye writer?
Little respect when commenting on my blog please, Jon. (In other words, learn from Jeremy and Duncan’s example.)
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:31 am
“Don’t know if mentioning that you can’t keep a writer”
Right there.
June 3rd, 2006 at 4:39 am
Heard of context? If not, let me explain. My statement follows a quote from you regarding IBM Eye being unable to keep a writer, it should then be assumed, based on the context, that my statement applies to IBM Eye.
Because you’ve obviously read far too much into my statement and taken it out of context, I’ll ask again, when did I say the whole of b5media couldn’t keep a writer?