Sing a Song for Safety

Thoughts and meanderings from Rich Palmer.

Entries for the ‘Editorial’ Category

Direct Selling Your Safety

This audio is almost eight minutes of concern about a company that is direct selling safety products. Overall their products look good. Their research seems accurate (to a degree).
My concern is their approach and their level of expertise. The persons "presenting" the safety demonstration are not qualified and educated safety personnel. [...]

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They’re Talking About You: Social Media and Public Safety

I submitted the following article to the National Information Officers Association (NIOA). I am currently serving as Vice President of the NIOA. This article was printed in the March/April 2008 edition of the NIOA News.

“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” — William Gibson, science fiction author.
They’re Talking About You: Social [...]

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Bob Barr explores presidential race option

From the Bob Barr web site:
Bob Barr represented the 7th District of Georgia in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003, serving as a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, as Vice-Chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and as a member of the Committee on Financial Services. He now runs a consulting [...]

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Jim Kukral on Negativity

Dispense with negativity
An excellent point of view (in my opinion) from The Daily Flip producer, Jim Kukral. It is advise that I can take and use effectively. I have often found myself feeling just the way he describes… ready to pounce and ready to defend. No need. It can be wasted [...]

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Showing up in Google searches

I was quite surprised to learn that my name shows in the Google search for “podsafe music network.” I had commented this evening that I was always amused by my listings on sites that I had either forgotten or that I didn’t even know existed. My daughter said, “Go to Google and search [...]

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I Am Not Allowed to Vote As I Wish

I am very displeased that I was not given the choice to vote as I wish today. I walked to the judges table and was informed that I had to declare "republican" or "democrat". I stated "Libertarian". I was told "we have an issues only ballot, but you cannot vote for any [...]

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My Wife Wants a Noneday

Noneday Sounds Cool
As we were waking this morning, my wife proclaimed “I need a Noneday.” She stated that there needs to be a day where she doesn’t have to set her alarm. No getting up for work, no getting up for church, no waking to shuttle one of the kids to this activity [...]

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Fire Marshal Tells People to Take Responsibility

The assistant Fire Marshal in Achorage shares a very poignant view of how people need to start taking responsibility for their actions. Following a recent death of a child to fire, this Fire Marshal “tells it like it is.”
Complacency and apathy may very well be the reason people are not as safe as they [...]

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Losing the Shower Moments

It is always disappointing when I have the "shower moments" of enlightenment and inspiration and I can’t take action right away. One of the challenges of working a career while trying to start another…Mobile post sent by Rich Palmer using Utterz.  Replies.  mp3
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Revising the blog, working on the album

Excuse the construction mess
I’m reworking my blog style and themes. For now I’ve not landed on a firm design, so please excuse the mess. I know that first impressions mean a lot, so I appreciate the fact that many of you that are visiting for the first time are only looking for content [...]

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