“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” Barack Obama, January 8, 2008 You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video When I started this blog over a year and a half ago, I had no idea where it would lead. That road leads me today to [...]
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
So the new social media business is up and running. I’m getting some traction here and there, but I’ve started out slow, on purpose – I’ve always got a method to my madness. I’m pretty confident in the long term, because I’ve got something no other social media consultant can even touch. You all know it’s coming. [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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I’m starting to get so busy, I need to have Google Calendar control my life, and I have almost no bandwidth for blogging. I’m heading to Cincinnati tomorrow to give a talk on social media to a regional meeting of a major labor union – awesome. Work in Cbus on the way down, on the [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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So after I emailed AT&T’s corporate people about how I’ve been dicked around, guess what? I got the cancellation fee for my unused data card refunded. Yay! Success? Not quite. I’m still stuck with the crappy phone I signed on to hold for 2 years. And it continues to malfunction in strange ways, like dying in [...]
Saturday, September 26, 2009
I’ve hinted at some career stuff lately, and now seems the right time to make this announcement to my readers. I’ve launched a social media consulting practice this month. Here’s my fancy schmancy website. Why social media? Aside from the fact that everyone is doing it lately? Well, I already have a diverse set of clients [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
So thanks to the unavailability of another blogger buddy, today I got booked on the BBC’s World Have Your Say, which airs in Cleveland on WCPN from 1-2pm. Yes, I went into the WCPN Ideastream building. Yes, I did the show for an hour. No, the world didn’t end. The topic was, in all its glory, [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
This obviously would catch my eye. Seaview AM 960, an adult standards station (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Barbra Streisand, etc.) in West Palm Beach, has announced that Foley will host a new public affairs show, beginning on September 22. I’ve always known that if I was rich, or famous, or powerful when I got arrested in 2001 [...]
Monday, September 7, 2009
Loyal readers of my various blogs have been along for this ride, and I sometimes feel a duty to let them know how things are going. Well, as things improve, opportunities keep opening up, my confidence returns, and the return to normal life slowly embeds, I’m learning it’s pretty hard to leave behind the routines [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
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I wasn’t always a blogger – didn’t start blogging until 2004, when it appeared my future ability to engage in my community was totally gone. Before becoming a blogger, I was in all the circles anyone would ever want to be in. I hob nobbed with big media, big politicians, big money, had gone through [...]
Saturday, August 22, 2009
The quality of journalism coming from the Rachel Maddow Show right now is beyond anything that’s been done in news, in any medium – print, TV, radio, internet – in my lifetime. This quality has accelerated in the health care reform debate. Rachel is uncovering the biases, the financial interests, the facts, the myths, so [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
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