Working on her résumé. Power portfolio perhaps? No CV linked from her blog.

[a klog apart Bloggers for Hire] 

With the ClikZ weblog business strategies conference starting tomorrow, it's time to resurrect the k-logs Yahoo group. Only ten posts this year, due I think to UserLand's John Robb having a life and a company to run. John, how about sharing the moderation load? Nominees: Martin Röll. Lilia Efimova. Martin Röll.Adina Levin.Dave Pollard. I'll volunteer too.

You have the only mailing list in the world devoted to workplace blogging.

Let's kick it up a notch.

[a klog apart]

I haven't said thank you to Thomas yet.

Thanks for putting your energy into starting Blogtalk.

Thanks for being creative in your choice of themes.

Thanks for designing a process that produced such an interesting blend of voices.

Thanks for demonstrating that academia, especially the social sciences and liberal arts, have aimed their disciplines upon the blogosphere.

Thanks for including people from across Europe and the Americas.

Thanks for being a gracious host.

Thanks for the great lodging.

Thanks for putting us in Wien.  

Thanks for drumming up financial support for the panelists and conference.

Thanks for all the hard work after everyone else leaves.

Thanks for setting a high standard for other academic metablogging conferences to follow.

I don't know if you appreciate that so many learned so much.

That so many strong connections were formed that will lead to more and better research.

Thanks for showing what a blogger can do when he puts his mind to it.

I can't wait for Blogtalk 2.

Control and safety are illusions.

Dave Winer wrote yesterday,

In a perfect world, every person in an organization would have a public weblog and would use it professionally to communicate within the organization (privately) and outside the organization and everyone could be confident that every person would use the new technology properly and with due respect for the organization. Of course it doesn't work this way, and there's not much difference between weblogs and other communication technology, such as the telephone, email, instant messaging, etc. The employer must maintain a certain level of control over what's said on behalf of the company. Example, an employee who encourages potential customers to use a competitive product, even where your product is better, no matter what the medium of communication, has limited career options.

Prior restraint should rest in an author's hands.

Informed by possible consequences. (The usual risks of being vocal in public: liability, slander, promises as contracts, etc.)

Provisioned with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to influence those consequences.  

So Dave is right, blogs matter, they represent real opportunity. Otherwise there would be no risk.

Choose influence over control lest you poison the well.