Blogging and the Reduction of Waste

Hi Andragogists!

For the second installment of this blog, I want to touch on a subject that is very important to me.

WASTE

I don't really see the point of handing out hundreds of papers that I am certain go into the trash, get lost, or are never looked at again.  You might be wondering, "Kyle. How do you know that people waste these items?"  

Well, let me clarify.  

I'm not referring to an immediate time frame, although that happens as well; I'm thinking more long term.  There are very few training materials that, as an employee, I revisited or needed in the future.  When I did need to revisit those materials, I had to hunt them down, dust them off, and when I was done with them, they went right back where they came from for another extended period of time.  Ultimately, ALL of them have been thrown out.

Their purpose was to serve as a quick reference for me on very few occasions.

You know what would be more effective?  

Posting those materials in one conveniently accessible and searchable blog online.  No more shuffling through old paper work, realizing that item had already been thrown out, and having to return to the Training Department to retrieve another copy that would likely be lost just like the first one.

While that process is a wasteful one, in my next post, I will provide a quick layout of my solution to that waste, in which you will be mesmerized by its simplicity:

BLOGGING.

Image retrieved from http://greenoffice.uu.nl/projecten/paper-waste-project/