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Chinatown Bus

It used to be that you had to venture below the grime-caked pylons of the Manhattan Bridge, to a scene more reminiscent of Luoyang than of the Lower East Side, in order to catch a cheap bus ride between New York and Washington, DC. Even now at the intersection of East Broadway and Forsyth St, ticket hawkers scream out destinations in thick Cantonese accents--“DC, DC, DC!” “Philly, Philly!”--and grab the arms of passers-by toting luggage. Loading queues often disintegrate into a Hobbesian struggle to nab untaken seats.
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Most recently, a Marriott executive founded DC2NY, a service between Washington and New York that guarantees customers seats if booked online and charges only slightly more than the Chinatown buses (a $40 round-trip versus $35). It also offers free bottles of water and Wi-Fi internet access. The “luxury” bus carrier has more than doubled its operation since its inaugural trip this summer. Watch as its older rivals start copying its perks.

"The Chinatown express: Innovation brings emulation," The Economist, October 27, 2007

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October 30, 2007 07:57 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (1)

Media Tip 87

Media Tip 87: Prevent leaks before they happen--establish a clear and disciplined internal communications policy that no leak can pass through. Investigating leaks after they occur is often fruitless and demoralizing to an organization.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This tip is from our booklet, Media Relations Tips: 102 Secrets for Finding Success in Public Relations.

Practical tips for anyone who works with the media, works with someone who works with the media, or who works at an organization that is covered in the media.  An easy handout for everyone in your group to make sure that they are prepared and confident if they ever have to deal with the media.
4 x 9 inches, 15 pages

Based on the Media Relations Handbook, by Brad Fitch.

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

TheCapitol.Net offers Media Training and Communication and Advocacy Training, and is the exclusive provider of Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Executive Conferences.


October 30, 2007 06:37 AM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Plain English - Writing Refresher and Drafting Legislation

Gobbledygook. It's the stuff of government. Maybe its No. 1 export.

Now, a first-term House member, Bruce Braley (D-Iowa), wants to do away with the wordy, pompous and confusing forms and memos that spew out of the bureaucracy every day.

He has introduced legislation that would require the government to write in "plain language" -- simple words, short sentences and no jargon, so that people can understand tax forms, college aid applications and other documents distributed to the public.

"Unless there is aggressive or intensive oversight, no agency is going to change the way it does business," he said.

"A Push for Plain English," by Stephen Barr, The Washington Post, October 29, 2007

TheCapitol.Net offers writing training that will help you -- and your agency -- communicate clearly and in plain English.

"Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing: How to Compose Clear and Effective Reports, Letters, Email, and Memos," next offered in Washington, DC on November 1, 2007

TheCapitol.Net also offers a legislative drafting course that includes the acclaimed "Legislative Drafter's Deskbook".

"Drafting Effective Federal Legislation and Amendments," next offered in Washington, DC on July 29, 2008
Legislative Drafter's Deskbook, by Tobias A. Dorsey
Legislative Drafter's Deskbook, by Tobias A. Dorsey


October 29, 2007 12:37 PM   Link    Training    Comments (0)

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

The open enrollment season for next year's benefits elections is already underway.

Whether you're an employee being faced with new health insurance options through your company plan, run your own company like me, or purchase individual health insurance, the choices you make regarding your health insurance are an important part of your 2008 financial strategy.
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... I found there are a lot of misconceptions about HSAs, including that if you don't use the entire balance of your HSA before the end of the year, you forfeit it. That's not true -- with an HSA, there's no "use it or lose it" rule.

"Seven Things to Know About Health Savings Accounts," by David Bach, Yahoo! Finance, October 22, 2007

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October 27, 2007 10:37 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Congressional Deskbook: "Unprinted Amendment"

Unprinted Amendment: Senate amendment not printed in the Congressional Record before its offering. Unprinted amendments are numbered sequentially through a Congress in the order of their submission.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This definition is from our Congressional Deskbook.

Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms.
Learn how to translate words that are used every day on Capitol Hill.
4 x 9 inches, 16 pages

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

The Pocket Dictionary is based on the Congressional Deskbook, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider.

TheCapitol.Net offers training and a Certificate Program in Congressional Operations and Federal Budgeting, we show you how Washington and Congress work. TM


October 26, 2007 08:27 AM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Faculty Favorites: Dining and Places - Deanna Gelak

We asked our faculty and authors to share with us some of their favorite things about living in our nation's capital. Their responses are posted in "Faculty Favorites"

Deanna Gelak (bio), faculty for "How to Work the Hill Like a Pro Audio Course on CD," shares her favorites.

Five Most Interesting Places to Visit

Five Favorite Fun Things to Do

Favorite Restaurants


For more, also see our Visiting Washington DC pages


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October 24, 2007 06:47 AM   Link    Dining ~   Dining and Things to Do & See ~   Faculty Favorites ~   Fun ~   Visiting Washington, DC    Comments (0)

Media Tip 85

Media Tip 85: Work with the policy staff to convince them of the value of working with the media to achieve common goals. Conflicts between policy staff and public relations staff are inevitable, and it is best to deal with them from the start.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This tip is from our booklet, Media Relations Tips: 102 Secrets for Finding Success in Public Relations.

Practical tips for anyone who works with the media, works with someone who works with the media, or who works at an organization that is covered in the media.  An easy handout for everyone in your group to make sure that they are prepared and confident if they ever have to deal with the media.
4 x 9 inches, 15 pages

Based on the Media Relations Handbook, by Brad Fitch.

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

TheCapitol.Net offers Media Training and Communication and Advocacy Training, and is the exclusive provider of Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Executive Conferences.


October 23, 2007 05:27 PM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Thomas Jefferson

Biographies of Jefferson are published almost constantly, each new addition boasting to cover uncharted territory on the man. The Library of Congress holds tens of thousands of letters and papers that have been consulted and consulted anew. Yet the man’s inner life remains a paradoxical sketch; the vast paper trail is the frustrating work of a genius self-editing his life and political career. The last truly successful biography may be Jack McLaughlin’s 1988 volume Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder. McLaughlin wisely surmised that to understand Jefferson he should stick to the architect and his prime obsession, his hilltop plantation outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson unwittingly left, in extensive farm and family records, ample evidence of the man behind the President--his failures as an engineer, his spendthrift nature, his brutal handling of slaves, and his indifference to the comforts of his own family, who lived in a house that was repeatedly rebuilt and never completed during his lifetime. Because of his obsession, Jefferson saddled his family with staggering debts, a burden borne by a grandson into old age.
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Trying to understand him through the women in his life is like viewing Monticello’s architectural details through Virginia’s early morning fog. But it’s worth the effort.

As a young man, attending the College of William and Mary, in booming Williamsburg, Jefferson struck out with women. He developed the kind of scorn and condescension toward the “weaker sex” that can come after rejection, especially in a humorless man. In Mr. Jefferson’s Women Kukla describes, in unadorned prose that plays well off Jefferson’s ornate English, a young man we might today call a geek--insecure, self-absorbed, and obsessed with the teenaged sister of a college friend.

"Was Thomas Jefferson a Misogynist?" by Jillian Sim, AmericanHeritage.com, October 15, 2007

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October 22, 2007 08:17 AM   Link    History    Comments (0)

"Political theology"

It was this trust, bred of homogeneity, that allowed the ideal of toleration to be actualized [in the young United States]. People feel comfortable when they are with their own, and it is only in an atmosphere of mutual trust that norms of acceptance and openness can develop. Because the early Americans seemed familiar to each other, at a certain point it no longer seemed far-fetched that a white male who followed one Protestant preacher and cut his hair in one way, could eventually learn to tolerate another white male who followed a different Protestant preacher and cut his hair in another -- or, later, that this same principle might be applied to people who were not white, male, or Protestant. Tocqueville begins the first volume of Democracy in America with these geographical and sociological givens, which he saw as the necessary conditions of establishing a successful democracy in a large continent. If toleration is the great achievement in American political and religious life, the road to it was not paved with toleration alone. It was the by-product of many other factors that had to be in place before the deeply rooted human urge to distinguish, discriminate, and fear could be snuffed.

But now the principle of toleration has been rooted in the United States and, at least since the Second World War, is formally recognized in the democracies of Western Europe, Latin America, and parts of Asia. This is a great success for democracy and, insofar as we have helped things along, for American foreign policy. But it has also bred fantasies about the easy spread of democratic institutions and the norms necessary to support them in other parts of the world, most urgently in Islamic nations. Toleration seems so compelling to us as an idea that we find it hard to take seriously reasons -- particularly theological reasons -- for rejecting the democratic ideas associated with it.

"Coping with Political Theology," by Mark Lilla, CATO Unbound, October 8, 2007




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October 21, 2007 09:27 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Congressional Deskbook: "Trust Funds"

Trust Funds: Accounts designated by law as trust funds for receipts and expenditures earmarked for specific purposes.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This definition is from our Congressional Deskbook.

Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms.
Learn how to translate words that are used every day on Capitol Hill.
4 x 9 inches, 16 pages

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

The Pocket Dictionary is based on the Congressional Deskbook, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider.

TheCapitol.Net offers training and a Certificate Program in Congressional Operations and Federal Budgeting, we show you how Washington and Congress work. TM


October 19, 2007 07:47 AM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Maybe they should have taken training in how to draft legislation - 3

When Governor Deval Patrick unveiled his casino plan last month, he said three destination resort casinos would generate $100 million to help host communities and their neighbors ease traffic and fight crime, and to pay for public health programs like compulsive gambling treatment and prevention.

But when the bill appeared last week, the amount of money earmarked for community mitigation and public health programs was only a fraction of what the governor promised: $27 million.

Patrick aides said the discrepancy was a mistake, an error committed during long days of drafting and revising the 77-page, landmark bill.

"Programs face gap in casino payouts: Error in bill means a fraction of funding," by Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe, October 17, 2007

How could this have been avoided? Maybe Massachussetts Governor Deval Patrick's staff should have attended the training program from TheCapitol.Net on “Drafting Effective Federal Legislation and Amendments” or read the “Legislative Drafter’s Deskbook” by Toby Dorsey.

Legislative Drafter's Deskbook, by Tobias A. Dorsey

October 18, 2007 09:27 PM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Faculty Favorites: Dining and Places - Peggy Garvin

We asked our faculty and authors to share with us some of their favorite things about living in our nation's capital. Their responses are posted in "Faculty Favorites"

Peggy Garvin (bio), the author of Real World Research Skills: An Introduction to Factual, International, Judicial, Legislative, and Regulatory Research, shares her favorites. Peggy has lived in Washington DC for 24 years.

Five favorite “Oases”

For more, also see our Visiting Washington DC pages


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October 17, 2007 07:27 AM   Link    Dining ~   Dining and Things to Do & See ~   Faculty Favorites ~   Fun ~   Visiting Washington, DC    Comments (0)

Is your child getting enough sleep?

Half of all adolescents get less than seven hours of sleep on weeknights. By the time they are seniors in high school, according to studies by the University of Kentucky, they average only slightly more than 6.5 hours of sleep a night. Only 5 percent of high-school seniors average eight hours. Sure, we remember being tired when we went to school. But not like today’s kids.

It has been documented in a handful of major studies that children, from elementary school through high school, get about an hour less sleep each night than they did 30 years ago. While parents obsess over babies’ sleep, this concern falls off the priority list after preschool. Even kindergartners get 30 minutes less a night than they used to.
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Using newly developed technological and statistical tools, sleep scientists have recently been able to isolate and measure the impact of this single lost hour. Because children’s brains are a work-in-progress until the age of 21, and because much of that work is done while a child is asleep, this lost hour appears to have an exponential impact on children that it simply doesn’t have on adults.

The surprise is how much sleep affects academic performance and emotional stability, as well as phenomena that we assumed to be entirely unrelated, such as the international obesity epidemic and the rise of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. A few scientists theorize that sleep problems during formative years can cause permanent changes in a child’s brain structure: damage that one can’t sleep off like a hangover. It’s even possible that many of the hallmark characteristics of being a tweener and teen--moodiness, depression, and even binge eating--are actually symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation.

"Snooze or Lose: Overstimulated, overscheduled kids are getting at least an hour’s less sleep than they need, a deficiency that, new research reveals, has the power to set their cognitive abilities back years." by Po Bronson, New York Magazine, October 15, 2007

October 16, 2007 07:17 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Media Tip 80

Media Tip 80: Coach your principal to try to keep the encounter professional, pleasant, and short when handling ambush interviews.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This tip is from our booklet, Media Relations Tips: 102 Secrets for Finding Success in Public Relations.

Practical tips for anyone who works with the media, works with someone who works with the media, or who works at an organization that is covered in the media.  An easy handout for everyone in your group to make sure that they are prepared and confident if they ever have to deal with the media.
4 x 9 inches, 15 pages

Based on the Media Relations Handbook, by Brad Fitch.

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

TheCapitol.Net offers Media Training and Communication and Advocacy Training, and is the exclusive provider of Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Executive Conferences.


October 16, 2007 07:07 AM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Commuting to work on a bike - in a suit

Do live in an area where the traffic congestion adds time to your daily commute to work? Have you ever wondered if there might be a better way? Perhaps there is. Watch this video made by Stephen Gale from Melbourne, Australia. He discovered that he could get to work much faster on his electric bike than he could be driving.

"Electric bikes: Suitable Transportation? Of course, just ask Stephen Gale!," by Jeremy Korzeniewski, AutoblogGreen, April 12, 2007

Stephen Gale, a practical guy (who last rode a bike the day before he gained his drivers licence), has riden all the way from Melbourne to Sydney over eight days while wearing a business suit. He didn't plan to break any records, in fact he wants to show just how easy it was.

Suitable Transport

Previously on Hobnob Blog: "Electric Bikes," September 9, 2007

October 15, 2007 08:17 AM   Link    Tools    Comments (0)

Maybe they should have taken training in how to draft legislation - 2

A 6-year-old child's chalk sketches on her family's stoop brought her bemused parents a graffiti-removal notice that threatened a $300 fine, the family and Sanitation Department officials said.

"My mom got a ticket for graffiti, and it wasn't even graffiti," first-grader Natalie Shea said. "It was art, very nice art."
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Nor does City Councilman Peter Vallone, who spearheaded a 2005 city law that requires property owners to get rid of graffiti.

"It was never the intent of my law to capture chalk drawings on the sidewalk," he said.

"New York Parents Fined for Daughter's Chalk Drawings on Stoop," FoxNews, October 13, 2007

How could this have been avoided? Maybe New York City Councilman Peter Vallone should have attended the training program from TheCapitol.Net on “Drafting Effective Federal Legislation and Amendments” or read the “Legislative Drafter’s Deskbook” by Toby Dorsey.

Legislative Drafter's Deskbook, by Tobias A. Dorsey

October 14, 2007 08:17 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Maybe they should have taken training in how to draft legislation - 1

A new law allows Arkansans of any age to marry, even babies. The law was intended to establish 18 as the minimum age to marry-while also allowing pregnant minors to marry with parental consent-but because of a misplaced “not,” it allows anyone who is not pregnant to marry at any age if the parents allow it.

Now the governor, an independent commission, the lawmakers, and the courts are all scratching their heads. They are having trouble coming to a consensus on how, when, and where to fix the law, leading State Senator Sue Madison to say, “I think it’s deplorable and it’s embarrassing.”

How could this have been avoided? Maybe the Arkansas lawmakers should have attended the training program from TheCapitol.Net on “Drafting Effective Federal Legislation and Amendments” or read the “Legislative Drafter’s Deskbook” by Toby Dorsey.

"Misplaced 'not' in Arkansas law allows babies to marry," CNN, October 11, 2007

Legislative Drafter's Deskbook, by Tobias A. Dorsey

October 13, 2007 04:07 PM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Congressional Deskbook: "Discharge a Committee"

Discharge a Committee: Procedure to remove a measure from a House committee to which it was referred, to make it available for floor consideration.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This definition is from our Congressional Deskbook.

Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms.
Learn how to translate words that are used every day on Capitol Hill.
4 x 9 inches, 16 pages

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

The Pocket Dictionary is based on the Congressional Deskbook, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider.

TheCapitol.Net offers training and a Certificate Program in Congressional Operations and Federal Budgeting, we show you how Washington and Congress work. TM


October 12, 2007 02:37 PM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Faculty Favorites: Dining and Places - Gebe Martinez

We asked our faculty and authors to share with us some of their favorite things about living in our nation's capital. Their responses are posted in "Faculty Favorites"

Gebe Martinez (bio), a reporter covering Congress and politics for The Houston Chronicle, shares her favorites.

Most interesting places

Favorite Restaurants (This is a little harder to answer because there are so many good restaurants in this area. So, not in any particular order and off the top of my head...)

For more, see our Visiting Washington DC pages and other Faculty Favorites.


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October 10, 2007 04:07 PM   Link    Dining ~   Dining and Things to Do & See ~   Faculty Favorites ~   Fun ~   Visiting Washington, DC    Comments (0)

Media Tip 102

Media Tip 102: Always stick to your principles. The ethical choices available to a public relations specialist when faced with an ethical dilemma are avoidance, compliance, ignorance, or resignation.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This tip is from our booklet, Media Relations Tips: 102 Secrets for Finding Success in Public Relations.

Practical tips for anyone who works with the media, works with someone who works with the media, or who works at an organization that is covered in the media.  An easy handout for everyone in your group to make sure that they are prepared and confident if they ever have to deal with the media.
4 x 9 inches, 15 pages

Based on the Media Relations Handbook, by Brad Fitch.

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

TheCapitol.Net offers Media Training and Communication and Advocacy Training, and is the exclusive provider of Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Executive Conferences.


October 9, 2007 08:27 AM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

The New Lobbying and Ethics Reform Bill

TheCapitol.Net is sponsoring a telephone seminar on "The New Lobbying and Ethics Reform Bill--Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007" on Thursday, October 18, 2007.

Our faculty for this course is Sonia Fois, an attorney in Arnold & Porter's Legislative Practice Group.

Topics to be covered include:

An open Q&A with the faculty is also included.

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The course will also be available on audio CD after October 30, 2007.

Audio course on CD: Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007
Audio course on CD: The New Lobbying and Ethics Reform Bill--Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007

October 8, 2007 01:27 PM   Link    Training    Comments (0)

Pampanguena Cafe

Pampanguena Cafe serves good Fillipino food at reasonable prices in Gaithersburg, MD. You will see many families here.







Adobo Chicken - excellent




Fried fish - you must eat it with the chopped vegetables




Chicken and pork skewers - excellent




Pampanguena Cafe, 16041 Frederick Road (Route 355), Gaithersburg (technically Derwood), MD, 240-631-2210 (Metro Trip Planner - opens in new window) [Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide | Don Rockwell]

October 8, 2007 09:17 AM   Link    Dining    Comments (0)

Congressional Deskbook: "Bill"

Bill: Measure that becomes law when passed in identical form by both chambers and signed by the president or passed over his veto. Designated as H.R. or S.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This definition is from our Congressional Deskbook.

Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms.
Learn how to translate words that are used every day on Capitol Hill.
4 x 9 inches, 16 pages

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

The Pocket Dictionary is based on the Congressional Deskbook, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider.

TheCapitol.Net offers training and a Certificate Program in Congressional Operations and Federal Budgeting, we show you how Washington and Congress work. TM


October 5, 2007 08:17 AM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Faculty Favorites: Dining and Places - Brad Fitch

We asked our faculty and authors to share with us some of their favorite things about living in our nation's capital. Their responses are posted in "Faculty Favorites"

Brad Fitch (bio), author of Media Relations Handbook, shares his favorites.

Five most interesting places to visit

Five most favorite fun things to do

Four favorite restaurants

For more, also see our Visiting Washington DC pages


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October 3, 2007 11:57 AM   Link    Dining ~   Dining and Things to Do & See ~   Faculty Favorites ~   Fun ~   Visiting Washington, DC    Comments (0)

Does it matter where you go to college?

The other students are the biggest advantage of going to an elite college; you learn more from them than the professors. But you should be able to reproduce this at most colleges if you make a conscious effort to find smart friends. At most colleges you can find at least a handful of other smart students, and most people have only a handful of close friends in college anyway. The odds of finding smart professors are even better. The curve for faculty is a lot flatter than for students, especially in math and the hard sciences; you have to go pretty far down the list of colleges before you stop finding smart professors in the math department.

So it's not surprising that we've found the relative prestige of different colleges useless in judging individuals. There's a lot of randomness in how colleges select people, and what they learn there depends much more on them than the college. Between these two sources of variation, the college someone went to doesn't mean a lot. It is to some degree a predictor of ability, but so weak that we regard it mainly as a source of error and try consciously to ignore it.

I doubt what we've discovered is an anomaly specific to startups. Probably people have always overestimated the importance of where one goes to college. We're just finally able to measure it.

The unfortunate thing is not just that people are judged by such a superficial test, but that so many judge themselves by it. A lot of people, probably the majority of people in America, have some amount of insecurity about where, or whether, they went to college. The tragedy of the situation is that by far the greatest liability of not having gone to the college you'd have liked is your own feeling that you're thereby lacking something. Colleges are a bit like exclusive clubs in this respect. There is only one real advantage to being a member of most exclusive clubs: you know you wouldn't be missing much if you weren't. When you're excluded, you can only imagine the advantages of being an insider. But invariably they're larger in your imagination than in real life.

So it is with colleges. Colleges differ, but they're nothing like the stamp of destiny so many imagine them to be. People aren't what some admissions officer decides about them at seventeen. They're what they make themselves.

Indeed, the great advantage of not caring where people went to college is not just that you can stop judging them (and yourself) by superficial measures, but that you can focus instead on what really matters. What matters is what you make of yourself. I think that's what we should tell kids. Their job isn't to get good grades so they can get into a good college, but to learn and do. And not just because that's more rewarding than worldly success. That will increasingly be the route to worldly success.

"Colleges", by Paul Graham, September 2007 (footnotes omitted)

If you are a high school student, see Paul Graham's not-yet-given high school talk for more good advice: "What You'll Wish You'd Known," January 2005

October 2, 2007 10:37 PM   Link    Career ~   Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Media Tip 96

Media Tip 96: Maximize the use of a web site in any communications crisis. Create special sections for the public and reporters.

Booklets customizable for your organization

This tip is from our booklet, Media Relations Tips: 102 Secrets for Finding Success in Public Relations.

Practical tips for anyone who works with the media, works with someone who works with the media, or who works at an organization that is covered in the media.  An easy handout for everyone in your group to make sure that they are prepared and confident if they ever have to deal with the media.
4 x 9 inches, 15 pages

Based on the Media Relations Handbook, by Brad Fitch.

The cover and inside pages of this booklet can be customized with your logo and information. For more information, see our Booklets page.

TheCapitol.Net offers Media Training and Communication and Advocacy Training, and is the exclusive provider of Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Executive Conferences.


October 2, 2007 07:47 AM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)