Is This blog Still My Online CV?

I’ve been blogging since early 2001 on different blogging platforms, whether internally within an organisation, or out there in the Blogosphere. For many years, I have always said having your own personal business blog is pretty much like having a living, organic CV. Updated on a more or less regular basis, all along, acting as an extended part of your brain in which you get to elaborate on your own ideas, life / work experiences, in-depth knowledge and expertise on a specific domain and, eventually, letting the world get to know you a little bit better in a rather effective, but unobtrusive manner. Does that thought still hold up for this blog, now I’m starting from scratch, after having run with it since October 2005, with nearly two thousand posts deleted?

That idea has been haunting me ever since I decided to relaunch my blog without its living memory from a long-gone past. A clean start, I thought, would be good, specially, since plenty of what I wrote about back then I no longer believe in it. Twenty one years later, reality has proved time and time again I was wrong. Dead wrong. More on that later… It’s perhaps a bit more poignant even, because at this point in time you won’t find me with an active online social media profile anywhere, except perhaps for Mastodon. I’ve deleted everything. On purpose. Including what for plenty of people is still considered *the* place to hang out for professional networking: LinkedIn.

I’ll be blogging over the next few weeks about the several reasons why I have gone through that massive clean-up of pretty much everything online that relates to the previous elsua, i.e. yours truly, previous as in before late December 2025 when I decided to nuke my digital life for good. Either way, I still find it incredibly relevant and useful to have a home, i.e. my online home, this blog, on my terms, in which I can share my own thoughts without having to depend on someone else’s playing the role of being such digital home.

I guess that’s why I still feel this blog needs to continue to act as my organic, living CV, even though it may well be pretty empty at the moment, because, at least, I can say it’s mine. It’s my thoughts, my life / work experience, my in-depth expertise in whatever the subject matter, in short, my own reflections on whatever the topic that has caught my interest at the time. That is still relevant, don’t you think?

Either way, those of you who know me from over the years can anticipate pretty much what I plan to blog about going forward. For those of you who may not know me just yet, but who may want to get a glimpse of what to expect potentially I’d like to point you to this superb curation exercise Stan Garfield started over 7 years ago: KM Thought Leaders. In it, you’ll find my own entry over here, with an updated version from last year.

I am eternally grateful to Stan for having put together such wonderful resource and for having me featured in such esteemed company within the KM realm. It’s humbling and a true honour. I’ll always very much appreciate it.

For now, I guess it’s time to keep populating this blog with upcoming posts, as I resume my blogging mojo, rebuilding up the necessary muscles to refind my own blogging voice and style. See if it is still there, intact, or find out how it may have shifted over the last few months, perhaps years. That would then allow me to keep building up my online CV in case you’d want to learn more about what I love doing AND conversing about. Oooh, and please, before I forget, feel free to jump into the conversations, as you may see fit, I’m looking forward to diving in, too! 

You know what they say … The waters are lovely 😎👍🏻.