Sergio Del Piccolo

It has been a while since I’ve managed to post to my blog. My readers have been sending me emails and calling me to let me know that I have been lacking in this regard. Ok, so my wife has been letting me know – but she counts as a reader. My lack of blogging has been for good reason though – I got together with a few ex-colleagues (Jame Healy, Stephanie Hayes and Daniel Gocsman) to form Vancouver’s newest Management and Integration consulting firm. Avantage Partners (our web site will be finalized next month) hit the ground running on January 2nd of this year specializing in Business Integration, Business Insight and Performance Management. We have a number of programs aimed at solving problems many businesses face in our market. Currently I am working on a program around Partner Integrated Workflow. I will be publishing an article on this topic within the next month. Watch this space.

For more information, feel free to contact us here or on 877-OUR-AVANTAGE (877-687-2826).

Vancouver, Business, Integration, Consulting, Avantage Partners, Jame Healy 

Welcome to my new blog site. If you were redirected here from the old site please take a minute to update your bookmark: http://delpiccolo.com and your RRS feed to http://delpiccolo.com/feed/

I’ve decided to switch to a WordPress site. While I liked the Blogger blog I previously used, I found that it was more difficult to make some of the modifications that I wanted.

Let me know what you think!

Blogging, WordPress, Blogger

Hello, uhhh…is anyone out there?

Well, trusting that there is, my aim for this blog will be to post some information that is hopefully worthy of reading by someone – somewhere – sometime.

My first post is about blogging and etiquette, or as I like to call it, Blogetiket! This is something I’ve thought about quite a bit before starting to blog. There are some interesting posts about blogging etiquette, viz. Etiquette-for-the-Blogging-Nation and Blog Etiquette Introduction. These articles provide a great introduction to proper blog etiquette. With that being said, my five main blogetiket points are:

1. Don’t steal or plagiarize, you will only be caught out and it will harm your blogging reputation. There’ll be no coming back from that.
2. When mentioning another blogger’s post, make sure to place a link to their blog – they earned the right.
3. By all means comment on someone’s post, have people comment on yours – bloggers want the feedback. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have comments available on their posts. Criticize too if you feel it justified, but keep it constructive. That way your comments will have a positive effect and a meaningful dialog can ensue.
4. There’s nothing you can’t blog about – to me one of the best things about the web is the freedom from censorship. However, use it wisely, make your point count.
5. Be honest – be yourself, that’s why blogging is around. It’s a medium to share your thoughts, knowledge and opinion.

What it comes down to is – treat other bloggers like you want to be treated – be polite and courteous; unless of course, you don’t want to be treated that way.

Until next time,
cya!

Blogging Etiquette