It’s been a long time since I was a “professional blogger”, I might have been one of the early pioneers, but I stepped back from it as the rest of my life got busier. So I was pretty intrigued when I got an email from Future Shop.
Future Shop was starting up blogs to go with their existing community forums and they were recruiting about six Canadian tech bloggers to write the blogs for them.
I was very interested in the opportunity. Why not, I do love writing about tech and helping people, Future Shop recognizes the value bloggers bring so this isn’t a volunteer thing, and, yeah, I thought it would be pretty damn cool to be one of the select few to be doing it.
All humility aside, I think it is a great honour to be considered and chosen. This isn’t something I’m taking lightly or as just a neat thing to do now and then. Not to mention, I’m in some pretty amazing company:
Not too shabby. Pretty awesome group to be lumped in with, in my opinion at least. The Future Shop Tech blog officially launched today and I wrote the standard “Hi, I’m Tris, I’ll be your blogger this evening…” intro post last night to be ready for today.
I’ll be publishing 3-5 times a week on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays. My posts will be what you’re probably already used to: tech reviews, tips, advice, and photography. I also want to make two things very clear from the outset: yes I’m getting paid, no Future Shop is not muzzling any of us. We have some editorial guidelines, but none of those include “you can only say nice things about our key suppliers…”.
You should know by now that even if I’m given something, I don’t just give it a glowing review. I like to be balanced and fair. Nothing is ever perfect. Even my MacBook Pro is awesome as I think it is could be better (the keyboard is good, but not great I think).
I welcome feedback, story ideas, and all the rest.
So, let’s see what fun we can have now…
Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
