For more than 10 years (1994 - 2004), I wrote a self-syndicated column called “Utah Tech Watch” that began as a biweekly column and six months later moved to a weekly schedule.
Over time this column was published by three papers — the Deseret News (now the Deseret Morning News), The Daily Herald (in Provo, Utah) and The Enterprise (Utah’s weekly business paper) — as well as being distributed for free via email to several thousand subscribers.
Each year, one of my most fun and yet difficult self-directed assignments was to identify the top 10 stories of the year.
I plan to resurrect “Utah Tech Watch” as an online media property in 2008, and when I do, I’ll also resurrect its annual Top 10 stories piece. But for now, let me transpose this idea to this SOAR Communications blog with what I propose are the Top 10 Global SOAR Stories of 2007.
Continue Reading »
So Chip and I were in NoCal this past Thursday to visit with new SOAR Communications’ client, Ritchey Design, whose sales and marketing offices are in San Carlos, California.
After our meeting, we headed east to Sacramento to attend a hotel grand opening with project client, Rim Hospitality.
On the way, we heard the breaking news on San Francisco sports talk show leader, KNBR-AM, that a federal grand jury had issued five indictments against home run king, Barry Bonds, accusing him of lying under oath.
By now, sports fanatics and non-fans alike probably know most of the details of the alleged crimes –
- four counts of perjury, and
- one count of obstruction of justice.
If convicted on all five counts, Bonds could spend as much as 30 years in prison.
As we drove east on I-80, we heard one of Bonds’ attorneys proclaim Barry’s innocence and predict that Bonds would not spend a day in jail.
The home run king is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on December 7 to answer the charges.
Nevertheless, as a player without a team, Bonds may have played his last inning of professional baseball.
Continue Reading »
