WUSA 9 in Washington, DC started the new year offering weekly training seminars for everyone on staff called 9 University. Each week, there are courses ranging from SharePoint and Google Docs to writing better headlines and streaming Mogulus. Twitter was taught as a two-part series: how it works, and how to use it in a [...]
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Stop Doing Things You Hate
From time to time I come across a good motivational speaker through YouTube, and today was no exception. I’ve never heard of Gary Vaynerchuk before, but found this link through a friend of a Twitter account and thought I’d give it a try. Although it sounds very selfish to always think to do things that [...]
Being sick a second time.
It was a busy week as I’ve finally been able to wrap myself around all the sites I’m managing. I think all of the introduction are finally through and I’m able to get some real work done now. The missing piece of my team here at WUSA9 was finding at Web Site Manager, which has [...]
Lindsey’s parents visit DC!
It’s been a couple months since we’ve seen any of our family, and this weekend Lindsey’s parents, Rocky and Vicki, drove in to see us. They arrived Friday evening, and we kicked off the weekend with a great dinner at Gordon Biersch. We caught up with life and family and shared some samples from the [...]
Hitting the Gym Early on First Day
Lindsey and I got up at 5:00am, ate some breakfast and hit the gym as planned. It was great to be up and do nothing but focus on getting healthy. What else are you supposed to do that timw of morning, other than sleep. Speaking of sleep, we realized that the only thing that really [...]
Visiting Gannett’s Corporate Offices
My boss Allan has been planning my visit to Gannett’s corporate headquarters since I started working at WUSA9. He wanted to make sure I spent time with Kerry Oslund, VP of Digital Media, Rob Mennie, VP/Senior News Executive for Gannett, and Dave Lougee, President of Gannett’s Broadcast Division. So today was the big day to [...]