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My virtual social life has been almost as bad as my real social life. Why? Because I’ve been frivolously expending my energy on work. What was I thinking? I just finished a project where I helped the National Community Reinvestment Coalition deliver distance training with live videoconferencing. It went well. So well that I just accepted a full time position with them to be their in house new media producer. Yeah! They are a great organization. Their tagline is “Strengthening and building communities nationwide,” which they do by helping their “Members unite efforts around the nation to increase the flow of private capital into traditionally underserved communities.”

Basically, I’m going to help them extend their influence as an advocacy and support organization using online video, blogging, and all that newfangled web stuff.

At the same time, I am chipping away at a backlog of projects I have been doing. One of them is this fundraising video for Christina Arnold, who runs a Project Hope International, a nonprofit which works preventing human trafficking in the US and in Southeast Asia. While making the video I was honored to meet Thailand’s “condom king” Mechai Viravaidya, who was in DC to pick up the coveted Gates Award for Public Health.

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Now I just need to finish off two more video jobs and my plate will be clean. I want to do a weekly show, so the sooner I get these done, the sooner I can rock on that. In the meantime, I’m Just Saying No to more work.

In the meantime, I was saddened to hear about my childhood friend, Bill Maddex, passing away from a very unexpected case of cancer. Bill was a great guy who did his own thing his own way. I hate writing these things, but I guess that’s life from here on out. Friends writing obits for friends. Beats what they put in the paper.