This week, we took a look at the recession and charitable giving. Truth be told, this was more of a joint effort with one of the editors even though I’m on the byline. Check it out, I think the findings will probably surprise you or at least make you think a little differently about philanthropy in general.
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I started this blog a couple of months ago since I felt that I wasn’t getting enough storytelling in my life, and I’ve slowed down a lot lately since I have been getting so much of it. Shortly after I started this blog, I also started pitching and placing stories a lot more in the media. One day pitching to the media was one microscopic percentage of my day and the next day I was getting to do it for sustainable, small business, gadgets stories, and it was SO INTERESTING. I had pitched and placed stories before, but I was suddenly doing it at a much, much higher volume and ...read more Print This Post
I’ve been wracking my brain lately for more inspiration on what to blog about and the direction that Global Brain Candy should take, and one idea dawned on me when I read “Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites” in The New York Times. Given that we’re less than a week away from 2010, I also thought that making this idea part of a Global Brain Candy New Year’s Resolution might be a great way to more formally add a new dimension to the Media Corner section. “Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites” touched on a major question in the media industry of monetizing ...read more Print This Post
I woke up this morning to an incredibly inspiring and encouraging message on Facebook regarding a Teddy Roosevelt quote I posted a while ago. The same friend who had written had also once recited a great poem. I always forget the poem’s title, but I always remember vaguely the way I felt when I heard it. Between the Teddy Roosevelt quote and this beautiful poem (below), I may be considered a hopeless optimist. But we do what we have to do to survive the highs and lows, and here it goes (this friend also reminded me of the title via Facebook)… ...read more Print This Post
I was so really busy the last week and a half but am back in gear and hopefully ramping up again. For this week, we took a look at what the latest jobs report really means in terms of the recession’s end. It sounded like good news on the surface, but it’s a diamond in the rough against the backdrop of other economic indicators. It’s also a confirmation of past projections for a “jobless recovery.” |
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