To Write is To Write: Community Relations Blogs

Favorite Quotes

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

I just discovered P&G's Community Relations Blog (Thanks Kevin Dugan) Notes from the Front Line. This one and McDonald's Social Responsibility Blog are the first of the business blogs to highlight their community initiatives. I suspect we see more of these types of blogs popping up as businesses start to understand blogging and its advantages more.

I think blogging is an excellent way for businesses to share with the world their community intiatives and their outreach programs. And, not only for the purposes of public relations, but because of the discussion and awareness that it creates. If companies truly are transparent with their philantrophic endeavors and are blogging to share with the world the intricacies and the depth of these issues/problems that they deam important to tackle, then hopefully, it spurs a larger discussion about the problems that this world faces and creates, within that discussion, how the businesses (and individuals) can better help solve these problems that society faces.

If you know of other community relations blogs out there, please share them with me. I would love to learn more about how companies/non-profits are tying blogging into their larger issue-oriented efforts.

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