From the Field: Time to Move On - The End of Regular Blogging

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I've Lost the Motivation to Regularly Blog

By michaeljmorris on Mon, 05/09/11 - 9:35am.

Despite my proclamation that, now that I finished the MBA, I was back to blogging, the truth is, I've lost the motivation to blog each week. It takes 2-3 hours to write a good blog and, while that is not much time each week, after work, kids, (and some more work), I really prefer to read, watch TV, and golf. It's surprising that once I finished school, work filled in a lot of the free time.

So, I'm stopping regularly blogging. I might drop in from time to time to write about something that interests me. I'm still working in networking, Cisco, and IT so I will share some thoughts from time-to-time.

I wanted to thank the Network World staff for supporting my blogging (good and bad) for the past nearly 4 years, particularly Julie Bort, our Cisco Subnet Editor. It's been a heck of a run. I've written around 210 blogs in the past 4 years, starting with this one back on July 4th, 2007.

Good luck to all of you out there and thank you for reading my blog over the years. I've had a great time and learned a lot.

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About From the Field

Michael Morris is a communications engineering manager at a $3-billion high-tech company. His background is in enterprise WANs working with telcos and developing large-scale routing designs. He has worked on networks at government and corporate organizations, including networks at two Fortune 10 companies. In his current role, he leads a team of 10 engineers responsible for large-scale IT networking projects and architectural standards for data networks, storage area networks, IP telephony, contact centers, and security. Michael is CCIE #11733 and recently became one of the first three Cisco Certified Design Experts (CCDE) ever (#20080002). He has 11 years experience in networking and communications, including four years as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army. He has a bachelor's degree in MIS from the University at Buffalo and is working on his MBA from NC State University. In 2008, he was awarded the Network Professional Association (NPA) Professional Excellence and Innovation Award for his work on network architecture, templates and enterprise MPLS design.

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