You know the media world has definitively changed when the local daily newspaper announces its hosting a social media conference.
The Charlotte Observer will host their day-long conference on Jan. 23 at Queens University:
Throughout the day, you’ll hear from some of the most forward-thinking social media gurus in the region, including Jeff Elder, Lisa Hoffman, Crystal [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Dec 21
Charlotte O’s social media conference
Dec 21
Did that week really just fly by?
What happened to last week? A full five work days felt more like two. And, I was doing so well on posting here at the old personal pad again. Can’t control the news cycle, or the news makers, it seems.
Last week kept me busy at the day job, reporting on Mecklenburg County’s decision to extend [...]
Dec 12
Militant Charlotte pastor has ‘concerns’ over anti-gay Ugandan law
Dr. Michael Brown, founder of several Charlotte-area ministries including the activist Coalition of Conscience, says he has “serious concerns” about the anti-gay Ugandan law that would punish homosexuality by death.
His statement was emailed to me as I was writing an article on the subject for Q-Notes. Despite his “concern,” his statement falls far short of [...]
Dec 10
Anti-gay pol to step down in N.C.
North Carolina state Sen. David Hoyle (D-Gaston) announced Dec. 9 he’d step down at the end of his term in 2010. Hoyle, chairman of the Senate’s Finance Committee, had been considered the third most powerful member of the Senate’s leadership, after President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight and former Majority Leader Tony Rand.
One advocate thinks the [...]
Dec 10
Public prayer losing ground in North Carolina?
County commissioners in the sleepy, liberal town of Asheville, N.C., have made a “consensus” decision to end public prayer at their meetings.
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners are set to bring the topic up for official discussion on Jan. 5. They’ll likely vote to stop opening board meetings with prayer. The move comes after a [...]
Dec 09
Nat’l org salutes Triad Equality Alliance
Freedom to Marry, a national advocacy and education organization on marriage equality issues, is saluting North Carolina’s Triad Equality Alliance for their media advocacy efforts. The organization has funded several LGBT awareness building billboards in Greensboro and Winston-Salem.
Freedom to Marry writes:
Freedom to Marry salutes the Triad Equality Alliance for their brilliant work in delivering effective [...]
Dec 09
Yes, but will he lead like Terry Sanford?
Former N.C. State Sen. Cal Cunningham, a Winston-Salem, N.C.-native living in nearby Davidson County, has announced his challenge to Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, also of Winston-Salem.
Other than the interesting regional connection between the two pols and what that means for the continued East-to-West political shift in the Tar Heel State, I was also intrigued [...]
Dec 08
Gay Appalachian Mountains project receives $6K grant
There used to be a time — and that time, in many respects, might still be now — when most people thought of urban areas as the only places in to find any sort of measurable or visible LGBT presence. As gays move forward in our movement for civil and social equality, attention on our [...]
