‘If you have no leaders, step up’

Mindy McAdams implores journalists who get online to do this in a recent post. And the sentence has been reverberating in my head all evening.

I’m fortunate to work for a newspaper where many people do get it. We commit sizable resources to video, audio and other multimedia. We’ve launched a radio studio with hourly reports. We’re about to unveil a new website that gives readers tremendous power to find information in the way that most makes sense for them.

But, a few days after getting back from a vacation in Montana during which I avoided the Internet, I wonder: Where can I take the lead?

This is likely a case where there’s no upper limit on leadership. And I was not the driving force behind any of the initiatives listed above, so I’d like to find that area where I can “step up” in my newsroom.

Helping my co-workers learn and master our new django site admin will certainly give me one avenue. Any other ideas out there?