Being the spouse of a young editor at a morning newspaper doesn’t carry a lot of perks, unless you like being alone in the evening. I thought I had delivered a perk to Mimi in 1980 when I was an editor on the city desk of The Des Moines Register. The Register was going to be hosting the [...]
Archive for August 26th, 2009
Remembering the Register’s Carter-Kennedy debate
Posted in Iowa, Personal, tagged Al Gore, Bill Bradley, Des Moines Register, Edward Kennedy, Iran hostage crisis, Jerry Brown, Jim Gannon, Jimmy Carter, presidential debates on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
C3 picks up key endorsement
Posted in Complete Community Connection on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OK, I couldn’t resist, when @OliviaMitchell tweeted about a web site that lets you have Albert Einstein write your message, I had to give it a try:
Social media help old friends connect in person
Posted in Social media, Key social media posts, tagged Twitter, LinkedIn, Mark Briggs, TripIt, Donica Mensing, Merrill Perlman, Deborah Gump, Evelyn Hsu, Dan Gillmor, Mike Higdon, Jeremiah Owyang, University of Nevada Reno, PC World, Adam Singer, Susan Hanley, Expedia, Dopplr on August 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was busy enough in June that I didn’t take time to blog about an interesting social-media experience. But when a similar thing happened this week, I decided it was time to take note. I can’t recall how I first learned about TripIt, though it probably was from Mark Briggs, who was my first TripIt [...]
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