Along with the work I do with Lisa and PearlyWrites and the other odd seedy endeavors I am into with my music and such, I write for other web and blogsites, one of which is this thing called shortandsweetnyc.com. I review theater/film/CDs’/conduct interviews in and about the NYC area or stuff affecting the NYC area and often times I get to interview the talent of those plays/films or music. So this is why I was at Fox this day, but I’m a relatively new face as shortandsweet.com isn’t that very old, but it is gaining lots of attention, as we all know blog sites can these days. Anyway, I am sitting there when suddenly everybody wants to know who I am, who I write for and when I tell them…. Suddenly the interest over the long hair with the deep dimples and swarthy good looks (me) increased when my fellow reporters realized I worked for one of those nifty blog things that everybody is reading these days.

I had heard print was dying but man, I never saw a truer realization of this then what happened to me in those next few minutes. I try to keep a low profile as it is, I would never speak to anyone unless spoken to first (mainly because I am a chicken-shit, not because I am so cool…I’m not). Seems to me, that even if you have a good paying job in print or broadcast media, blogs and sites are what anybody who is anybody wants to write for or read these days. This one guy insisted on giving me his card-not that I asked for it-and when he couldn’t produce one, went out of his way to write his info down for me as quickly as possible. Sure I appreciate the networking, but at the same time he was saying: “Wow, there seems to be a new of those popping up everyday” after I told him I was from a .com, he was pushing his info into my hand like a desperate girl at closing time!

I liked the attention for sure, but this brief moment solidified for me what it is I am trying to do with my life. I am not on Twitter, I don’t have a Facebook page but I do send my various writings, songs even and network through email more often than not these days. Recently Lisa and I completed a press release for someone and within a half a day we garnered attention for that same some one, very good attention, quicker then you could ever have wished for in print. As Lisa has taught me, this Internet social media marketing thang is so immediate, reaches so many so fast and is now the industry standard that a dunder head like me gets attention even when I don’t know what to do with it.