I admit it. I’m an information junkie.
["Hi, Jeff," the Information Junkie Anonymous crowd says in unison.]
I’m a life-long learner that loves to devour new information from a variety of resources. I guess that’s why education was one of my degrees in college. [Yes, one of them.]
I read a lot. I mean a whole lot. I read stuff about things that help me grow in my profession. And I read stuff that has nothing to do with my profession. That’s often how I get some of my best ideas is reading outside of my field of interests.
I'm an information junkie.
Before the Internet and before blogs, I had lots of magazines and publications in my home. If I was going to a bookstore, half of my purchases were magazines. I would scour bookstores and news stands for unusual or unknown magazines. I would purchase catalogs of magazines just to feed my voracious appetite.
I was known at work for tearing out magazine articles, copying them and sharing them with anyone that would listen. I would mail articles to friends and family. I kept three ring notebooks of favorite articles. Now, don’t think I’m like your neighbor that keeps a lot of clutter and never throws anything away. My parents taught me better than that. I’m actually just the opposite, slightly OCD when it comes to everything has a place and a place for everything.
All of my magazines and articles were organized and I could find specific articles quickly. I have a fairly sharp memory too. (Just ask my parents, co-workers and spouse. They’ll tell you it’s one of my assets but also gets me in trouble when I remind people of what they forgot.)
Then the Internet arrived. I subscribed to eNews and read magazines online. My email box filed incoming news into appropriate folders. I filled RSS feeds with favorite blogs and read online books when they first started appearing in the early 1990’s.
Today, I don’t purchase many magazines yet I keep my learning needs fulfilled by reading blogs. And, I read a lot of blogs too from a variety of sources. I read them on my laptop, my desktop and my iPhone. I tweet articles and email them to family and friends. I star them, put them in folders and favor them in Twitter.
I often get asked what are some of my favorite blogs so here they are: My.Alltop.Com/JeffHurt
My.Alltop.com/JeffHurt
This is just a handful of my favorites from one of my favorite websites: Alltop.
Check out my mix of association, elearning, event and meeting planning, nonprofit, and social media blogs. If your blog is not in MyAlltop, perhaps it’s because you haven’t registered your blog for Alltop yet.
And, you can create your own My.Alltop too.
