It’s About Time

We have a company that’s full of engineers. Not software engineers,but civil and structural and mechanical and electrical and automation engineers. It’s not a technically un-savvy company by any means. However, in my experience, engineers tend to be extremely focussed in their technical acumen and (sometimes) surprisingly ignorant in other technical areas, especially information technology. There are some notable exceptions in our company, especially among automation engineers, transportation engineers and GIS people. In fact, transportation engineers, as a group, were the first really computerized engineering discipline back in the day before there were computers on every desk, just because of the nature of their work designing highways.

That said, I was surprised and pleased to receive my first request for a corporate internally facing blog from an end user today. I think most of our staff don’t know what a blog is, much less actually knowingly read any, and much much less want to write one. I guess I’m off to work preparing my first internal WordPress server. We’ll probably need some kind of internal image and file host for it too.