Instead of substantive information, today’s post focuses on me and this website.
Compliance Building went public on February 12, 2009. Since then, I have managed to publish a blog post every business day. Sometimes, more than one. I hope at least some of those 1250 posts were useful to you, whether you are a subscriber or one of the other 200,000 or so visitors to Compliance Building over the past two years.
Thanks for reading.
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I started my first blog, KM Space, on this day in 2007. I set up Real Estate Space a few months later. Now I’m moving into my fourth fifth year blogging.
Why do I do this?
Mostly, I publish because the information is useful to me. This blog is a personal knowledge management tool. It’s all about trying to capture information that interest me and has relevance to my day-to-day work. I find that writing my thoughts adds some clarity to my thinking. By putting all of that information into the blog, it’s in a place where it is easy to find.
The secondary reason is that it’s good for the industry to be focused on compliance and ethics. If it’s good for the industry then it’s good for my company and good for me personally. If a fellow private equity real estate company gets into compliance or ethical trouble that will reflect poorly on the industry as a whole. Inevitably, that will make my job harder. It will likely make it harder to raise capital and to get deals done. That’s bad. So I try to share information that will benefit the industry because that benefits me.
I admit this blogging experiment is self-centered, but I’m happy to have you along for the ride. If you want more detail on this you can read my Why I Blog page.
For those of you who know me from KM Space, I will continue to publish a subset of my Compliance Building posts to the KMspace feed. No need to say goodbye. Unless I’m boring you.
Image is from Cake Wrecks: Close Enough.
Doug, you spell out many of the same reasons I blog, albeit not at the amazing rate as you!
Keep up the great work and content.
Rich