An Introduction
My car is a Kia.
I drive to IKEA.
I had Chick-fil-A for lunch.
How to resign from a job in the social media age
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, has tendered his resignation letter to Yahoo, as has his wife and fellow co-founder Caterina Fake. Check it out:
Put simply, Yahoo lost focus and Butterfield doesn’t feel he has a place anymore. The metallurgical storytelling is just clever metaphor. But that’s not the point.
A great many people are familiar with the ins-and-outs of corporate HR and workplace drama, so resignations and their accompanying letters are nothing new to them. But what do you most notice about Butterfield’s parting shot?
Shameless Plug
I would like to take a moment of your time to announce something that I hope, over time, will become something rather successful.
As many of you know I have a personal blog in addition to writing for this here Clusterflock thing. However, I’ve recently started another blog, called Unfiltered, that serves as my employer’s blog. I want it to be everything most company blogs aren’t: interesting, authentic, transparent, fresh, relevant, not boring. My goal is to make it worth reading on a daily basis, even if you aren’t wholly interested in the consulting business, PeopleSoft or SaaS technology.
So, if you’re inclined, stop on by. Tell others about it if you feel the prospective subject matter would be interesting. Grok the RSS if that’s your thing. The kickoff post pretty much lays out what the blog will and will not be.
Thanks. We now return to the regularly-scheduled ideological chaos.
