Category: Personal Note

TV land

Posted on by Brian Lee

Monday was a long day for me, not just because of work, but also because I was on TV twice. At 6:40 a.m., I discussed restaurants with Mother’s Day specials on News 3 (I also run a dining guide called EatDrinkMadison.com). Then at 3 p.m. (but aired at 5:20 p.m.), I was on a panel with two other men for a segment called “Guy Talk” on NBC-15.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get on WKOW to complete the trifecta! Here are the spots. Regarding the NBC segment, we did two: a three-minute version that aired on TV, and a 10-minute version that was web only; the latter one is what you’ll see below.

And yes, I did change between TV appearances.

News 3:

NBC-15:

Speaking tour

Posted on by Brian Lee

I’m sort of glad we had bad weather this past weekend, as I stayed inside for most of it to work on my presentations for this week. On Tuesday, I’ll be guest lecturing on social media for an Edgewood College MBA class. Then on Thursday, I’m the keynote speaker at the SMPS Wisconsin Awards Program, where I’ll explain “How to Pitch and Get Published.”

I also guest-lectured at Edgewood a year-and-a-half ago. It’s fascinating to see how much social media has evolved since then; as a result, I had to make significant updates to my previous presentation.

For the other presentation, it’s taking 10+ years of public relations experience and combining it with my previous teaching of the subject, then condensing it to 30 min.

Old news

Posted on by Brian Lee

I did something yesterday I never would have expected that I would do, and that was return a newspaper.

Last week, I did some grocery shopping at Super Walmart and picked up a New York Times. Only when I sat down for breakfast afterward did I notice that the date of the paper was Jan. 1, 2011. That explained why the front page photo was of people partying in Times Square!

When I went to customer service, one employee said others had encountered the same problem. It was only at that point that she went to the newspaper rack and removed all the copies of the New York Times, all dated Jan. 1. Apparently, they stopped getting new copies and forgot to throw away the old ones, despite being two months old.

They happily refunded me my two dollars.