One of the hardest things for any business to do is admit weakness.  The same is true for people and since all businesses are run by people, except maybe Wal Mart, so that statement should come as no surprise.  Over in Greensboro the News & Record is admitting that it can’t keep up technologically so they’re going to enlist the help of their community.  Check out this post from Lex Alexander to see what I’m talking about.  Excerpt:

We understand the value of what we are being offered, we understand that the offer is for a limited time only, and we’re going to take you up on it.

I spoke today about how to do so with John Robinson, with News &
Record Interactive head Kathy Lambeth, and with a number of other key
people who work for one or the other.

Long story short, in January we plan to hold a meeting here at the
paper of key N&R news and technology staffers and anyone in the
community interested in working with us to address some of these
specific technological problems.

My hat’s off to them for even taking one step on this endeavor because it takes true guts to admit weakness or need.  I’m sure some skeptics would say that desperation sows all kinds of brave acts, but I’d counter with the argument that there are many people/businesses who don’t even take the first step. Hopefully this works out for the N&R and the folks working there.

Cross posted on lowderenterprises.com