| Stacey's Blogs and Websites | ||
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| Stacey's General Blog | Undocumentedfeatures.com | |
| NashvilleRPGs.com |
I have a lot of diverse interests, and it manifests in the websites and blogs. Whenever I want to do something or have something new to say nowadays, I create another web presence for it. Below are some of the sites that I currently manage and own:
This is my blog for random thoughts in general and keeping folks up to date on what's happening with me. I do usually communicate with all my friends and family regularly, but having RSS around makes it easier for those who use it. Aside from that, it gives me a place to talk about things that come to mind to whoever wishes to read it without a lot of overhead.
Undocumented Features, in its current incarnation, is a blog devoted to Project Management practices. It focuses mostly on 'soft' skills, such as thinking through risks, managing resources, navigating corporate politics, and motivating team members. While I am pleased with the blog, I do plan to move it to a new name soon more suited to project management, and start to bring some 'hard' project management dialog to it, such as a series on how to start a project correctly, how to close out a project correctly, and other project management tasks that sometimes seem daunting. Expect a new blog to pop up in the Undocumented Features focusing more closely on business analysis skills- requirements gathering, understanding and controlling scope, use cases, etc.
Back in high school and college, I was a heavy RPGer (that's person who plays roleplaying games, for those not familiar with the term). I haven't played since the mid-90s, but a friend of mine does, and has a rather popular podcast about it now, so when he was in town to visit recently, I went with him to a local speculative fiction convention called hypericon. It was great fun, I got to sit in on some writing workshops and meet other writers, and I remembered a few things about gamers. For one, they're fun people. For another, they don't seem to network well. I met too many people who repeated a mantra I have heard for years: "I wish I could find new gamers!". Having spent a lot of time learning to network for my career, I decided to do something about it. NashvilleRPGs is the result of this. It's sort of a Craigs List for gaming, with the hope that lots of gamers will join in, meet one another, and their lives will be better for it. If I manage to meet some cool people in the process, so much the better.