Time is winding down on Accentuate the Positive, and I can’t leave without saying thanks to a few of the people who deserve it.
In no particular order:
Thanks to B.L. Ochman and Jeremy Pepper, for doing what you do so well, and inspiring me to enter the blogodrome (whether you knew it or not.)
Thanks to Peter Himler, for taking the time to say hi, and showing the real power of the flat world.
Thanks to the Texans, John Wagner, Scott Baradell, and Kami Huyse. Three very different sorts of blogs, with three independent perspectives and audiences. I look forward to my occasional invasions and incursions into your comment boxes. I will in fact mess with Texas.
Thanks to Allan Jenkins, Eric Eggertson, and the rest of the Nobodies. If you don’t know who you are, that’s okay. You’re nobody. (And Eric — Accentuate the Positive, 3.0 is available…)
Thanks to Steven Silvers, Todd Defren, and Andrea Weckerle for bringing wicked smarts to a profession that doesn’t always call for it.
Thanks to Ben and Jackie and Steve Rubel for finding cool niches and keeping them fresh.
Thanks also to Gary Goldhammer and Terry Heaton — two very different people who are trying to make sense of the future of journalism.
Thanks as well to all my Birmingham Peeps — thanks to the Combloggerator, I’ve saved so much time wasting time! And thanks to Drew for being the coolest preacher ever, and not saying anything about my quoting Janis Joplin in our Galatians class.
To all the others who should have been here, but weren’t: I’m sorry. Maybe I’ll amend this later.
Oh yeah — why the blog-freeze? I’ve been hired as the Communications and Government Relations Director for the American Red Cross, Southeast Service Area. I’m the key support for both of those functions for 116 chapters in five states. Including Florida. In hurricane season.
Simply put, there will be no freelancing, and no seminars anytime in the near future. Positive Position Media Consulting will emerge from mothballs one day years from now, but for the time being needs to be dormant. As for the blog, I need to focus my attention on learning the new job and the tasks at hand.
(Yes Kami — I will still comment from time to time. That goes for all of you.)
I’ve got e-mails for a lot of you, but if you want to send me anything, try ike AT pigott DOT name. I’ll be sure to bug as many of you as possible if I ever start blogging again.
And just for fun — be sure to link to this post. If I’m going out, I’m going out strong!
(Stay tuned — your parting gift arrives tomorrow.)
Ike.
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Well, I’m going to miss reading your thoughts and insights. But this is a great opportunity, so congratulations! Please stay in touch.
Comment by Andrea Weckerle — August 13, 2006 @ 4:31 pm
Ike:
I’m wishing you all the best — and limited weather interruptions — in your new job. We’re going to miss you and ATP.
Comment by John Wagner — August 13, 2006 @ 5:03 pm
Good luck, Ike!
Comment by scott — August 13, 2006 @ 7:30 pm
The end of an era?? No doubt just a great new adventure… Good luck, amigo!
Comment by Todd Defren — August 13, 2006 @ 9:57 pm
All the best in your new job; sounds like quite a challenge. Hope you run into lots of nobodies down South as well :-). Good luck!
Comment by Serge — August 14, 2006 @ 2:37 am
You’ll always be a nobody in my book, Ike.
Good luck with the new assignment, and don’t be a stranger!
Comment by Eric Eggertson — August 14, 2006 @ 3:10 am
Congrats and best wishes — here’s hoping the crises are few and far between.
Comment by Wade — August 14, 2006 @ 6:40 am
Ike,
Definitely (a belated) congrats on your move (first read about it at Kami’s blog). Remember: Just ’cause you are saying good bye, doesn’t mean you can’t blog every once in a great while — when time and nature permit.
You’ll still be on our Bloglines and other feeds!
Mike
Comment by Mike Driehorst — August 14, 2006 @ 11:07 am
Thanks Ike, I am counting on you to stay in touch, I will do the same. Thanks for a great interview.
Comment by Kami Huyse — August 14, 2006 @ 11:16 am
I am proud of you. Both for your character and your wisdom and insight.
LD
Comment by Big Ike — August 14, 2006 @ 5:00 pm