I love the readers of my blog, I truly do. But I’m not going to lie, it’s a conditional love. My primary condition is that you comment on the posts rather than send me an email to comment on the posts. And this goes doubly if you’re a heckler.
Tonight, I got a few emails in regard to my latest post on online wellness apps. Here’s a clip from one:
It’s easy to speak to the shortcomings of a whole category of web solutions but not offer any suggestion for an improved process…
Yes! That’s exactly what I want to see (in my comments.)
Well sbuchon@ and friends, I’m with you. I’m not sure it’s any real consolation, but I can offer two responses:
A. I’m opinionated.
B. Off the cuff, here’s my suggestion for an improved “process”:
- set up an account
- complete a personal health assessment
- choose a preference for content delivery method (rss, email, etc.)
- select your personal nazi/coach/heckler – possible choices:
- your spouse
- your boss
- a progress widget to display on your blog
- obey
Once your baseline personal health status has been established, the service begins to stream helpful content (based on triggers from your assessment) to you at a mild pace – Yoga in bed, working out at work, finding healthier fast food, et cetera. Twice a month, though, you get a directive that needs to be acted upon i.e.: “You’re going to start eating more fruit. Here’s how…” or “You’re going to walk more. To start, get a pedometer here or here.”
If you don’t act upon your directive, your personal nazi/coach/heckler is alerted. If you’ve selected the digital heckler / blog widget, and you’ve failed to act on your directive, your site begins to continuously loop the hamster dance until you obey so the world will know that you’re being lazy.
That much is free. If you want a matching domain name like healthnazi.com or further blueprints of my storm, it’ll cost you extra.
For the record, you’re all free to email whenever you’d like. I can’t guarantee a personalized post as response to your email, but I always love hearing from my 3 loyal readers.
2 Responses to “My email address isn’t even listed on my site…”
What a swell guy you are. Responding to your hecklers.
I’ve got two questions about the following snippet: “…working out at work…”
First question, are you talking about kegel exercises?
Second question, does aforementioned first question qualify me as a heckler, or should I have emailed it to you? I’m sure I have your address around here somewhere. I need to get organized.
Good ideas, btw. The company I work for has already started on something just like that.
1. You said “kegel.”
2. No.
c. There goes my “off the cuff” believability.