What Do You Do When You Hit a Brick Wall?

That’s the question Robert Hruzek asks over at Middle Zone Musings. Robert is almost brand new to the network in the new “daily living” category. So new in fact, that I still need to create it in the sidebar. Tomorrow.

OK, so actually Robert isn’t even that new. He tried to join several weeks ago, and we had some hiccups. Let me be blunt. We dropped him (and some others) between the cracks somewhere. Robert, we’re sorry! We’re doing our best! Really! And things are looking up.

Quick vague status report: Gordon Atkinson has been writing all of our featured posts lately, while Chris Cree, Christy Richardson, and I (Mark Goodyear) did our best to get this network out of beta. It’s been quite an adventure.

You could say we’ve hit a few walls . . . to get back to Robert’s question.

Be sure to click over and check out his post. Even though Robert is new to the network, I first met him at SOBcon07 in Chicago. That early blog conference helped give us the fodder to go ahead with HighCallingBlogs.com aggressively–even though we were far from knowing where this would all go. It was a step of faith, really.

Certainly, we’ve hit some walls during the past few months. Some big ones. But like Robert, we just keep plugging away at things. When he hits a wall, Robert says he is like water:

You remember the water, don’t you? You remember how it behaved when it came up to a barrier of some kind, right? It eventually built itself up until it either went around, over, under or through whatever was in the way.

This site certainly seems to be building to something. We are almost ready with an AUTOMATED registration system–thanks to Christy Richardson. And we’ve just restructured our levels of engagement to give people more options and opportunities. Gordon is combing through the member sites as quickly as he can. Christy Richardson and I have been working hard on some new ways to share RSS feeds. And Chris Cree is beginning the main site redesign that will officially take us out of beta. (I think.) Like I said, the future looks bright. (I think.)

Thanks to everyone in the network for being patient with us through this process!

And be sure to drop by Robert Hruzek at MiddleZoneMusings.com to say hi. He’s a good guy with a completely unique style of writing. Definitely pay him a visit. He’ll make you smile.