Social Media

I spend at least 1-2 hours a day reading articles, blog posts, newsletters, etc. on social media.  Then I pick the best of the crop email those to colleagues I think will be interested.  Then I post a portion of the information on Gannett’s Social Media internal sharepoint site, which I maintain.  What I don’t do is share this information publicly, outside of Gannett.  I may tweet out an article here or there, but I don’t collect this information anywhere for myself.  You could follow my delicious bookmarks, but they only tell half the story.

So- starting in December, I will start posting to my new social media blog here: jodi is social and make it a place to collect many of the thoughts I usually share only internally.  Hope it works out and I hope you enjoy it!

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The Children’s Rhyme

“The Children’s Rhyme, that only sticks and stones can hurt me, it was lie…”

Back in 1992, I wrote a poem, which turned into a song.  It was the year a good friend of mine was raped.

I titled it “The Children’s Rhyme”.   I just happened upon the song, and some of the lyrics really got to me, again…

“Please forgive me when I start to suck my thumb;
I should not have to see this;
And when I pretend that I am deaf and dumb;
I should not have to live this.”

I wrote a lot about my friend during that time, but “The Children’s Rhyme” was more about society and overall innocence lost.  I am glad my friend survived those difficult days.  She is now happily married with 2 kids.

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