The migration wasn’t spawned by my love affair with WordPress, but by overdue necessity. That I was able to cobble together this new version (including new content) in about 4 hours with 98% of what I envisioned, however, does speak to the nature of my love affair.

An isolated blog about “me” in an age of decentralized content no longer made sense. As the web progressed and my free time compressed, my “presence” became increasingly concentrated on social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter where micro-updates not only worked, but were enforced. Since joining C. Murray Consulting, I’ve done most of my traditional blogging there. It seemed to me – a self proclaimed web strategist – that my website should reflect this reality and serve to curate public content rather than stand alone.

To this end, the new site aggregates my Twitter tweets, items I share in Google Reader courtesy of my very own plug-in, lists my last three posts on my company blog (only on the home page), and even has a page dedicated to finding me “around the web.”

Additionally, as a public face of a small business involved in marketing, networking, client engagement, and public relations, it has become increasingly important that I consider my own presence on the web. While there was nothing offensive on the old site, it was no longer representative of me, and did contain a number of old personal and political entries that – as I increase my public visibility – I’d prefer to leave behind.

So does all of this mean I’ll blog here more often? Probably not. I’ve thrown together a couple of other posts to prevent the site from feeling too bare, and I’m going to try and write quickies like those at least every so often.

I do, however, intend to post new entries a regular basis towards that curation goal. That means as I contribute new articles to places like Smashing Magazine, guest blog for others (a few of those on the horizon), or involve myself as a public face for events like WordCamp Boston, I’ll be mentioning / linking to them here.