January 13, 2006

I was lucky enough to represent Marqui on a panel on business blogging yesterday in Tacoma, WA for the Puget Sound chapter of the PRSA.  It was an early morning meeting full of enthusiastic communications professionals interesed in blogging, and well worth the time to be there. 

The other two panelists were smart, articulate and well prepared. Kevin Pedraja, VP, CMO of Sterling Communications, and Mark Briggs, The Tacoma News Tribune's interactive media content strategy manager - managing six bloggers on staff. 

I thought I'd point out the reference I made to Tara's post about comparing wire services here, for those who might want to see it.

On the drive home I had two conference calls, and another three conference calls that afternoon.  I grossly neglected my e-mail, and was fretting about it to my acupuncturist last night while trying to relax with needles in my stomach, legs and arms. She said (in her wonderful Mexican accent),

"Janet Johnson! You've had a very busy day already. Give work your brain, not your blood." 

Now, I recognize the irony hearing this from a very talented woman who sticks people for a living. 

And then she quoted Oscar Wilde, who once said (when asked why he hadn't written for awhile): 

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

I picked up e-mail this morning, and indeed, the world went on without me quite well while I was 'gone.'  Leaving the virtual world for the day was actually delightful.  Once I got over worrying about what I was missing online. 

Some genius, eh?

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