My headline is long, and the explanation for the question it raises could be much longer. I’ll try to keep it short, and explain how I plan to change the focus of this blog…sort of.

When I first started blogging, I was focused on communications issues, primarily filtering my comments through the more than 25 years of experience I have gained as a journalist, trade magazine senior editor, public relations specialist, and corporate communications coordinator–among other positions.

In some of my posts, I was able to take the position of a knowledgeable outsider–someone who understood the communications situation or issue, and whose perspective wasn’t colored by any emotion or agenda that might exist if I were an active participant in the situation or issue.

But over time, I’ve grown frustrated over my lack of freedom to share any thoughts or opinions about communications situations and issues that involve me directly. I’ve said it before: The main reason that you don’t see more blogging by internal communications professionals outside of their internal networks is that it is career hindering.

“Loose cannons” don’t get promoted in most organizations, and it is difficult to effect real change when you are not placed highly in an organization. I don’t want to be perceived as a loose cannon to my employer, and I want to build bridges between the subsidiary for which I work and the parent company.

The many conversations and situations gathered over my career that I don’t feel free to share here would be poignant in a novel. And that has been my novel idea for a while!

In the meantime, I’ll write here about matters that are important to me, but the topics will be as broad as my interests–which cover a much larger space than internal communications. Whatever I write, I’ll pick topics that I can speak about unencumbered by any real or imagined restraints–other than good taste.