If you are working with FundRaiser software, you are spending some time in front of a computer, just like we are. I enjoy that similarity, and also, seeing the photos of you working at your computers. I’ve been sent a few of these during my time writing about the way organizations use our software. Usually they come with a slightly apologetic comment, like, ‘I know this isn’t a very exciting photo’… or something along those lines. I love them and I think they are beautiful. And I can relate, because that’s how I look when I am working, too. You might be surprised to know, also, that when I post them, they are our most popular photos because we can all relate.
All of us connected to FundRaiser have in common that we are spending time behind our computers. In many of the photos I receive, people are looking up, the way we often talk to people who come to our computers station. Or you may be looking directly across at the camera, the way we sit in an office across from each other. It’s also pretty common to see people turned to look over their shoulder, because we are all facing the screen in front of us, and not the world behind. This is the world we live in, at least for the length of time we are working in a database.
I’ve also started to think about the spaces that we work in. Mine is pretty unspectacular. Most of the time I work from my home, in a basement office, which I’ve decorated mostly with bits of paper I’ve got pinned up in front of me. When I looked at it, thinking about taking a photo, I thought maybe it wasn’t exciting enough to post, either. Then my camera broke, so I didn’t have to worry about that!
Many of us work in some kind of office, but I know that some users and staff members also connect from libraries, motel rooms, cars, out doors..and other places, too! If you took a photo of your space right now, I wonder what it would look like?