Hi, everyone —
By now you’ve hopefully noticed that Vision & Balance has moved to its new home on the WordPress platform. It’s now also fully free (though not, I suppose, technically open access) rather than half-free/half-fee.
I’ll maintain at least a weekly posting schedule, and will try to maintain my usual twice-weekly posting schedule. But one thing I hope will be different: comments are now enabled and are unmoderated, so anyone who wishes to contribute to the conversation is welcome to do so. I’ll keep comments open and unmoderated for as long as the conversation remains constructive — which I hope and imagine will be an indefinite stretch of time.
I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have supported Vision & Balance up until now, making it a worthwhile (for me, anyway) effort and a great opportunity to air thoughts on leadership in academic libraries.
Now let’s turn it into a conversation.
Rick
Vision & Balance: Leading and Managing in the Academic Library 
It would be interesting to hear a little about the rationale for moving to WordPress. Totally related to decision to move away from monetization approach (pretty difficult in library community, I imagine)? Price of Ghost? Platform? etc. Lorcan
Ah.. I do see the earlier post … interesting nonetheless to hear some more.
Hi, Lorcan —
There were several factors that led to my decision to de-monetize V&B and change platforms, but the final straw was when I realized that the content of the newsletter wasn’t searchable. The two-posts-a-week schedule meant that by the end of the first year I’d amassed a pretty decent archive of content, and not being able to search it (in order to, for example, make sure that I wasn’t repeating something I’d written earlier) was very frustrating.
Probably the main thing, though, was wanting to turn V&B into more of a discussion and less of an ongoing lecture — something somewhere between a traditional newsletter and a listserv. A blog seemed like the right vibe. We’ll see!
Thanks for contributing to the conversation. 🙂