Musings of an Info-Geek: Pimping Blogs and NPOs

Musings of an Info-Geek

Observations on Technical Writing, Knowledge Management, and Content Development amid life in Austin TX

Jennifer A Brown
Instructional Designer/Technical Communicator delivering accessible and re-useable knowledge and process content to improve workplace performance.

Essentially I eliminate the frustration of time lost in ramp-up and rework through creating and streamlining knowledge, process and training content. In other words, I like to get my hands dirty with information to make other people's work lives easier. Member STC, ASTD.

Reach out and say hello via email or return to website.
Tech Comm
Instructional Design
Food For Thought
- Church of the Customer
- How to Change the World
Austin & Technology
Tag Cloud
Contingency Planning Customer Support Donations Due Diligence Film Food for thought Housekeeping Marketing Technical Communication Technorati
May 2012

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
Subscribe

Blog Post
Feeds
Misc & Sundry

Follow @Jenn_Tech
Quick Search

Search only in titles: Keyword:

Search in:

Date Range:

Advanced Search

Basic Search
Back to Main Page

Musings of an Info-Geek: Pimping Blogs and NPOs

Pimping Blogs and NPOs

I've started reading Career Diva, a blog by Eve Tahmincioglu, the career columnist for MSNBC.com. Yes, I recommend it. It's a great layout, with through provoking information related to careers. I started checking her blog out when I was working on a talk for job seekers about blogging as part of their toolkit.

I'm woefully behind in staying on top of career related news, and today I was checking out a few older posts (from May) and saw Would you hire, or want to work with an ex-prisoner? where she muses about the plight of ex-offenders and the obstacles to employment.

I, of course, couldn't get my mouth shut and commented about one of my favorite documentaries from SXSW2007, Hard Road Home, which features the efforts of Julia Medina and the organization he founded, Exodus Transitional Community, where labors to help other ex-offenders integrate back into their families, communities, and jobs.

Medina is impressive as he persuades and cajoles businesses into hiring his clients, as well as cajoles and encourages his clients -including one of his own staffers- who are trying with varied success into navigating the around obstacles they face. He knows first hand how hard it is to reintegrate after prison; Medina served a 12 year sentence himself. If I hadn't seen him talking about it himself, I wouldn't have believed it. Which begs the question, if this man can turn his life around, and dedicate it to helping others do the same, why can't we give ex-offenders a chance, too?

Unfortunately, neither Amazon nor Netflix has not added it to their selections (yet, I hope!). It is available on the Hard Road Home documentary's website.