Category Archives: Personal

Joining Converseon

Update, April 6, 2006: My heartfelt thanks to everyone who wrote to congratulate me – by e-mail, via comments, or on their blogs – on my new job. I am humbled by your support and confidence and (while I don’t think for a second that I deserve the embarrassingly nice things you said about me) [...]

Happy new year

May you live in safety. Be happy. Be healthy. Live with ease.

Disaster Remembrance Week

Last December and this January, the online community came together as never before to help in the aid efforts in South-East Asia. The lessons learned there were put to use, and improved upon, when the other tragic events of the year unfolded. Can we harness that goodwill, that togetherness, that willingness to help once more? [...]

PubSub launches the PR Community List

PubSub‘s first series of Community Lists is live now at www.pubsub.com/lists/ and includes The PR List, The Law List (edited by Kevin O’Keefe), The Librarian List, and The Fashion List. The lists are conceived as “miniature roadmaps” of these blogging communities, and as a way of determining what blogs are “hot” -or not- in a [...]

“Then you’re a journalist”

Journalism is storytelling with a purpose. That purpose is to provide people people with information they need to understand the world. The first challenge is finding the information that people need to live their lifes. The second is to make it meaningful, relevant, and engaging. Engagement really falls under journalist’s commitment to the citizenry. As [...]

Whereabouts

August 29 – September 6: starting the Katrina Help Wiki (about) September 6 – 23: organizing the Global PR Blog Week 2.0.

What’s up?

Not much, mainly because I’m still waiting for the good fellows from Florida Power & Light to restore the power in my neighbourhood (yes, Katrina is the culprit). I’ll be back online ASAP.