Google Maps directions from Chicago to Erp Thanks to gapersblock.com (tags: across_the_board) Jan Terlouw writes new book on Katoren (How to become king) (tags: cultural_affairs politics linguistics the_Netherlands) Can I check to story before it’s published? (tags: public_relations) Anti-spin group spins (tags: ethics public_relations) US ‘no longer technology king’ (tags: international_affairs politics new_media)
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This month is the first month my Web site has seen over 1,000 unique visitors. For a couple of months it came excruciatingly close, hitting 982 in December 2006 and 992 in January 2007. And although March is not over yet—we still have three more days—there have been nearly 1,300 unique visitors already. I started...
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I spent all of last week in Texas, mostly in Austin. I didn’t go to South by Southwest and a planned trip to Antone’s didn’t happen either. So much for going to the live music capitol capital (yikes!) of the world. I spent the week mostly relaxing. A bit of running, a bit of biking...
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Barack Obama and the Gay Gaffe (tags: politics chicago) Young PR Joins Converseon in NYC (tags: blogosphere career_insight international_affairs new_media public_relations) Power 150 Becomes Viable Measurement Tool (tags: blogosphere marketing new_media) It pays to pay attention to trends in the ‘real world’ (tags: latino marketing media mexico)
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This morning I read in a Dutch paper that the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam received a subsidy of 2 million Euros from the province of North-Holland. Just to renovate the hallways, bathrooms and coat room. How wonderful to see that in some countries, arts organizations do get the support they need from the government. In other...
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Today, these three quotes piqued (not peaked) my interested. The are not related in any way, but I think they nicely show the variety of sources I read daily. (And I don’t have the time to post anything longer.) “In retrospect, I should not have had guns in the home.” -  Terry “Tank” Johnson “Number one, we...
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John Edward’s Twitter (tags: politics new_media blogosphere) Artful Manager: One symphony’s dance with capital markets (tags: arts_management classical_music cultural_affairs) Milan ’steals’ Caravaggio for its own collection (tags: cultural_affairs arts_management) Science hopes to change events that have already occurred (tags: philosophy across_the_board) Don’t tell the Spartans (tags: public_relations ethics politics media) Ravinius Interruptus? (tags: chicago classical_music CSO)
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A while ago, someone at work approached me because his friend would love to go over some poetry translations with a native Dutch speaker. This friend, Stephen Frech, is working on translations of poems by Menno Wigman. Last night I had the second multi-hour session of delving deep into the poetry. Although I speak both...
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Forward’s latest Podcast covers the importance of reading. I agree. Reading is one of the most important things public relations practitioners, or anyone for that matter, can do. I happened to have recently compiled a list of books I read when I was younger. When I visited the Netherlands last December, a movie version...
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Last night I made a debut of some sort. I was a guest lecturer at my former teacher’s class at Columbia College. I met Dominic Calabrese through an independent project in college and he later invited me to do an internship at his organization, the Chicago Lighthouse. He teaches a non-profit public relations class...
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