Hello World…Back on WordPress

Tweet   It’s a good thing this is a personal site, because I continue to change and experiment with different things using my URL. If anyone happened to check in at this URL over the past year or so, it has been directed to a Facebook page, Tumblr account, Twitter... Read More

Is G+ worth adding?

Tweet   I was interested in seeing what Google + was all about just like the rest of the techno-social-media-geek world was. After receiving an invite and working on it a day or two, my initial impression was that it was just GoogleBook. Yet another stream of information, links, funny... Read More

How Designers Think

Tweet We are starting the Design portion of the curriculum here at SAMS, and to kick things off we had an orientation to the topic of Design by some of the members of Populous, a global design practice with an office in Kansas City. Populous, among other things, was responsible... Read More

Vicksburg Staff Ride

Tweet I spent the last week in Vicksburg, Mississippi on a staff ride with my SAMS class. We spent the week prior in preparation, looking at the history and context of the campaign, and studying one of the more prominent individuals on either the Confederate or Union side. I was... Read More

Why it’s good to write

Tweet Whether your blog has an audience of one or one-thousand, here is a good way to look at your writing. I always tried to explain to others that one of the reasons I maintain a blog is not because I really desire to have an audience, but that among... Read More

How to work for a S.O.B.

Tweet My instructor has a 1963 version of the Army Officers Guide, and in it there is a section titled “How to Work for an S.O.B” Given that this was published in 1963, many of the senior military leaders at the time were likely veterans of WWII and/or Korea. There... Read More

The Early Bird…Social Media Style

Tweet Paper.li is a social media site that creates a daily, online newspaper by aggregating the posts of your Twitter or Facebook friends. I learned about it several months ago after seeing a number of Twitter posts that looked like “The MY NAME HERE Daily is out! Top Stories by... Read More

CSI pub: The Army & the Media in the 20th Century

Tweet I’m in the process of identifying a topic for my SAMS monograph, and wanted to pass on a great 100+ page book from the Combat Studies Institute titled The US Army and the Media in the 20th Century. I originally grabbed the book off a shelf at the CARL... Read More