One of the reasons that I’ve not been posting very regularly is that I got married at the end of September, which upset my schedule both before and after the event, and I’m only now starting to get caught up again. For reasons that have to do with…
UPDATE: Less than 24 hours after I drafted this, Scoop-it announced the move from beta to public release. * * * * * I hope I’ll be forgiven for how long it has taken me to write Part 2 of this article. I know, I know, everyone says they’re really …
Last week I had the immense pleasure to give the keynote address at the IABC Africa Regional Conference. The theme of the conference was the “Communication Revolution”. The organizers were a little worried that some people might feel the conferenc…
The multitude of social networks and tools available today can be daunting. It feels like the world is fragmenting more and more. But there are tools that make it possible to connect these dots, to find people with shared interests and to zero in …
Because I recently purchased a digital recording with Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software, I am currently on the mailing list of their e-mail newsletter. About halfway down today’s long and text-heavy (even after I enabled the pic…
A report I ran across yesterday from Thomson Reuters on organic food made me think of the old expression “lies, damn lies and statistics”. The series of monthly polls asks Americans about healthcare and is reported by National Public Radio (NPR), …
Several articles crossed my desk today about the impact of women in agriculture and women in Africa, so I decided to do a post about women effecting positive change. We tend to think of such women as exceptional. I’d like to believe there is an ar…
