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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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Blogging for Publicity

Blogging and blog comments are great ways to be found by journalists.   Some media folks don't always rely on press releases to find people to interview.  They actually search and read blogs.  They also read blog comments so if you're hoping to maximize your media exposure, start blogging. 

Here are some tips I've shared in the past that I believe bear repeating:  

1)  If you like to write and have something relevant to say, then say it.  Just because you don't get any responses to your post doesn't mean no one is reading them.

2)  Share your blog with others.  Let your friends, family members and email contact list know what you're writing about and where they can find what you've written.  I've discovered that my email friends will pass on my blog link to "their" friends if it's a subject matter they think they'd be interested in.

3)  Maintain a blog on your website.  Make your website a one-stop-shopping kind of site where the readers can see everything you have to offer in a non-cluttered way.

4)  Maintain separate blogs for separate trains of thought (optional).  If you're an author, devote one blog to your work and use other blogs to express different subject matters.  You may want to use one blog to give your reaction to the news of the day and another to share something feelings, etc.

5)  Visit other blogs and comment on them.  Find other blogs that interest you and offer a comment from time to time.  Also, invite the blogger to visit your site sometime.