I’m going to do something I haven’t really done before. I’m going to talk about my job. Some of you know where I work, and some of you don’t. I’m not going to mention their name nor what industry they are in, because this post is not about them at all. It’s about what I do for them, and it’s about why you’re going to start seeing a bunch of new articles appearing on Fluid Imagination.

First things first, my job title. I’m a Project Manager. I’m new to the position, having just been promoted back in May, but I’m not new to the duties. One of my first jobs at the company was Traffic Coordinator. As Traffic Coordinator, my job was to make sure that I knew what was happening with all of the projects in my part of the company. I knew where things were, what needed to be done, and how long it would be until they were completed. As a Project Manager, I have the same duties, except on top of those, you have to add strategy. Now I not only have to understand where things are in the system, but also why they are in the system.

While this will probably change in the near future, I am currently assigned to one project. My job is to take this project from concept to launch, but since the original concept was little more than a philosophical mission-statement, my real job is figure out how to turn a philosophy into reality.

And you’re kidding yourself if you think my college studies are useless in this new job. As a combined philosophy/creative-writing major (actual title of my major: “Theories of Writing”), I learned how to take the weird abstract concepts in my head and turn them into sensational words, by which I mean, words that aroused the senses; I studied how to make philosophy feel real.

Anyway, the project that I am working on starts from a simple enough assertion: People want to be better at their jobs. My goal is to deliver a product that will help satisfy that desire.

The other part of the project mission is to build, definitively, a “Web 2.0″ product.

Which brings me to the second thing I want to tell you about it. Because my project is “Web 2.0,” I’ve been spending a lot of my time reading and thinking about the subject, and it’s getting to the point where I want to start writing about it too. So all of the regular readers of Fluid Imagination are going to start seeing a lot more posts about “Web 2.0.”

I know most of you are not technically savvy, nor are you interested in technology per se, so this probably doesn’t excite you at all. But I’m going to treat the subject on an introductory level, and I’m going to try to make you care about this thing called “Web 2.0.” I think it has the potential to be quite a force in your day-to-day life, and I want to help you understand why.

And you’re kidding yourself if you think my college studies are useless in this new task. As an alumni of Green Mountain College’s Progressive Program, I learned that people are better learners when they are passionate about what they learn. If we play with this formula a little bit, we can say that people are better teachers when they are passionate about what they teach. I’ve become passionate about Web 2.0, and I’d like to teach you about it.

And even if you couldn’t care less about learning about technology, I think you may find it fun to follow along as I shepherd this project into the world. So if Web 2.0 ain’t your thing, consider these articles a window into what it’s like to create something new.

That’s it for now. I gotta get back to work. Thanks for reading.

P.S. Don’t worry, it won’t be all Web 2.0, all the time. I’ll still be posting the regular shit too. Thanks again.