Tootin my own horn

So as I'm taking the elevator up to my floor at work, I check my email. I have a LinkedIn request from some guy named Tom Bouthillet. Nothing weird here, I get requests from people I don't know quite a bit. There is a personal message, however, that states he is going to blog about me today.

Wha? Well, that sounds a bit ominous.

I reach my desk, and open up my email and click on his LinkedIn profile.

This guy is legit. He works in Hilton Head as a Fire Lieutenant/Paramedic and is an avid blogger/social media user in health care.

I accept his request, and proceed to open up our hospital Facebook.

He had already linked to HIS blog post about ME on OUR Facebook.

A complete and wonderful surprise.

His blog post is about how social media is stepping in where traditional media, such as newspapers, radio and television is failing.

He also talked about what a good job he thinks I'm doing.

Wow. It was really nice to see.

Made my day.

To see our hospital blog, go here. For our Facebook, go here. And for our Twitter, go here.

Good day, lots of writing

It was a really good day. I stated this fact in a variety of ways - I said it out loud, I tweeted, I texted, I Facebooked, and I MySpaced. Now I'm blogging.

It's still a good day. The drive home was treacherous, but on a positive spin I got to catch up on my news. I was greeted at the door with kisses, and took a nice long walk in the rain-soaked neighborhood. Good smells.

I also caught up on my Match blog, http://matchmadein.blogspot.com/. That was fun. It's nice to remember the good times, as well as the bad. Puts life into perspective, and as long as you appreciate the lesson, it was worth it.