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  • Non-travelers often warn the traveler of dangers, and the traveler dismisses such fears, but the presumption of hospitality is just as odd as the presumption of danger. You have to find out for yourself. Take the leap. Go as far as you can. Try staying out of touch. Become a stranger in a strange land. Acquire humility. Learn the language. Listen to what people are saying. It was as a solitary traveler that I began to discover who I was and what I stood for. --Paul Theroux, Fresh Air Fiend (2000)

  • There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. --Denis Waitley

  • A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. --Carl Burns

  • I write for the same reason I breathe -- because if I didn't, I would die. -- Isaac Asimov

  • What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. --William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

  • God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. --Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • I quote others in order to better express my own self. --Montaigne

  • Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. --Mark Twain

  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. --Ernest Hemingway

  • It's the writing that teaches you. --Isaac Asminov
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FPRA Blog Week Wrapped Up--Great PR Articles

The FPRA Blog Week 2006 wrapped up last Friday.  If you have not been to their blog event site yet, be sure to check it out.  There are great articles and perspective from some of Florida's finest in public relations.   

The goal of the FPRA Blog Week was to showcase the talent of the Florida-based PR pracitioners, which it certainly did that.  What I wanted to reiterate in my post about it though is the stellar use of a blog to reach their goals.  To reference McLuhan, the medium is the message here.  The FPRA is using blog technology to raise awareness of its association, to provide valuable knowledge about public relations for those seeking it, to showcase their members expertise and to attract potential members by highlighting their innovative thinking. 

Of course, this is similiar to Global PR Blog Week and has been done before.  Yet, this type of usage of blog technology is still underused in my opinion.   Businesses in other industries have an opportunity to embrace and utilize advancing technology to bring folks together, to engage in deeper and more thought provoking conversations and to do so in a more efficient way then ever before.   Folks should look to events like this as a great example to showcase their organizations, to gain valuable feedback on new and/or existing intiatives/products/services and to further develop relationships with their publics.  Bravo FPRA! 

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 in Business Blogging, Events, Public Relations, Weblogs |

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Bob O'Malley

Thanks for the props!

Posted by: Bob O'Malley | Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 02:26 PM

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