If you've found this blog, you've found our brand new publication, The St. Louis Platform. The last part of my 34 years in the newspaper business found me leading the way into a new technology. I helped teach reporters and editors how to use the new operating system. This ability to teach how to use something has translated into the idea that I understand technology. And it means that I'm supposed to help writers learn to post on our new site. Ha!

As I tried to tell most classes, I could explain how they would work with the system, but I had very little idea of how the system worked or why it did things a certain way. Now I find myself in a new technology and trying to learn, again, how to work the system. And again, I'm frustrated with the baby steps I'm having to take at the beginning. What I have to remember, however, is that each time I try to "walk" it will get a little easier. And this time, I want to learn more about how the system works so using it makes more sense.

Two things brought about this reflection: I swear I had posted a blog that said my niece did a great job with Easter dinner -- and it wasn't her fault that her mother and grandmother were sick the next day :). But those semi-humorous words disappeared into the either. Then, I tried to create a map yesterday. One point in one hour does not efficiency make.

Baby steps. 

Last update: 27-03-2008 09:23

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