Tom Anthony Personal Blog

There has been a flurry of activity on my personal internet stuff – but it’s not all fun and games.

A reporter for the Virginian Pilot approached the Hampton Roads Technology Council (HRTC) to see if any members might be interested in being “Citizen Journalists” by way of a public blog.

Here is how the HRTC approached me on this issue:

The Virginian Pilot is looking for a handful of Technology companies to participate as ‘Citizen Journalists” in a new technology – focused forum and blog area.

They are requesting that HRTC recommend some folks that would be willing to commit to journal/blogging their ‘adventures in a technology company’ at least 3 times a week for at least two months. (entries ranging from a few sentences to a few paragraphs)

Their vision is that folks will informally discuss what’s new at their company, how they are overcoming everyday business issues, struggles that they might be having, thoughts on increasing business in Hampton Roads, exciting trends they see, what life is really like in a start-up or established technology company, etc.

Needless to say being selected would be invaluable publicity. However I was really embarrassed by my personal web site – thinking maybe someone from the paper would look at a three year old 100% out of date web site! So I finally updated my site, updated this corporate blog (blog.pinn.net) – I created a photo gallery (pix.tomanthony.com) and feel better should someone happen on to tomanthony.com.

I needed to update that stuff irrespective of the news story – but that was certainly the inspiration!

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