Christopher Hedges

Social media and radio combined

Local radio host Steve Walsh is combining social media and local public radio with an upcoming show to air live from a Merrillville coffee shop. CheckIn with Steve Walsh is set to air Sept. 3 at noon from Spill the Beans in Merrillville with a live remote broadcast, according to his blog. I’m looking forward [...]

Tempting death to save a second or two

I admit that I like to move along when I’m driving. I don’t like being stuck in traffic. I don’t like being behind a slow moving vehicle. I’ll re-route from the freeway to surface streets if I think I’ll be able to keep moving forward, rather than sitting in stop-and-go traffic. However, I always drive [...]

Collaboration — The key to success

Steve Dalton raises the idea of collaboration as the key to successful promotion in his latest blog post over at NWI Blogs. It’s worth taking a look at Steve’s post about Amy Stark and her mini-social media campaign as well as an effort to hijack FastCompany’s influence project for something that might make the original [...]

James Hynes’ “Next”

I had the good fortune to check out James Hynes‘ “Next” from the public library without knowing much about it beyond that it was in the new books section and the cover flap description lured me into checking it out from the library. The novel details middle-aged Kevin Quinn’s secret trip to Austin, Texas for [...]