Weld / Blog Like A Girl
Thursday, September 25th, 2008I was invited to guest blog over on the Miller Viewpoints blog… while I appreciated the opportunity, and am truly honored that they asked, I have to say it was a little different blogging through a corporate machine. First off, they wanted 250 words. Two hundred-fifty words? Are you kidding me? that just gets me started! “The 250 words is just a rough guide,” they assured me.
So, I turned in my 876 word piece, Weld Like A Girl: Tips for Women in the Welding Industry. And waited.
Five days later, word came back. “Because it’s longer than we typically use for a single post, we’re going to make it into a series…” said my Miller contact.
Sounded fine with me. I was proud of what I wrote, and three posts is better than one!
And so I waited some more as the edits, the approvals, and the blog post itself wended its way up the corporate chain of command. Word finally came back a week and a half later, “….they would only approve uploading the first topic, covering ‘Knowledge is Queen’”
[sigh]
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