Duffbert's Random Musings :: OK... today was a high point in my "writing career"...

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I enjoy writing... From Libby giving me my first shot at being published, to blogging, to writing reviews on Amazon... It's something I love to do. Yes, it's had a number of financial benefits, to be sure. But if it had gone no further than the pages of this blog, I'd still write.

Then there's the five minutes of fame in my small pond. I've followed Esther Schlindler's writing for a long time, and I finally got a chance to meet her at Microsoft PDC 2008 a couple months ago. I brought her a gift of chocolate "just in case" I ever ended up writing for her. Good editors are worth their weight in gold... or chocolate in Esther's case.

Yes, I'm not proud... Bribing and sucking up works for me.

A couple of weeks ago she asked if I wanted to write an article for CIO.com on Lotus Notes. I accepted, and today it was published: 7 Things IT Managers Should Know About Lotus Notes. I had fun writing it, and it was cool to see something I wrote published in a non-IBM/Notes publication.

Ah, but I was *really* surprised when I received an email from Patrick Kenney of IDG International Publishing Services letting me know that some CIO.com content ends up getting syndicated on the New York Times online site, and that my article made it over there.

OK... I can retire now. I'll have a hard time topping that five minutes... :)

Thanks, Esther...

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Comments

1 - That is so cool!

You forgot to mention the work you do editing others work for publication. Emoticon

Yeah, I am one of the sickos that actually take the time to read the credits/acknowledgements in books. I thought it was cool that I knew names in certain tech books, but this, my friend, is the greatest.

I hope to read more of your work in non-Lotus centric publications.

Posted by Gregg Eldred At 20:11:40 On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |

2 - Congratulations! It's a great article that's now making the rounds at my organization...
Keep 'em coming!!!

Posted by Ray Bilyk At 20:37:31 On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |

3 - Congrats Tom, and nice job. We're all proud to know ya and still call you our own (and I'm not just sayin' that to suck up) Emoticon

Posted by Kevin Pettitt At 20:39:33 On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |

4 - Tom,

Job well done (as usual). Dinner is on me. Name the date and time.

Posted by Bruce Elgort At 21:29:34 On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |

5 - Bollocks!!! The NY Times is a far left wing organization that only uses pawns like you to advance their agenda around IT management worldwide and you were only to willing to jump like Carl Lewis when they asked how high you could jump.

But seeing as how I could care less about the Times' political leanings, and everything I said about pawns and IT management being crap... well done! Duffbert goin worldwide!!!

Posted by Ian Duff At 22:12:50 On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |

6 - Duffbert FTW! Emoticon

Posted by Rob McDonagh At 22:50:03 On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |

7 - Nice article, but I missed some exchange bashing ;)

Posted by Matthias At 23:49:27 On 09/12/2008 | - Website - |

8 - Good article and just in time! We have a new Director of Software Dev and this person is not really knowledgeable about Notes/Domino (big surprise! Emoticon

). This will help ease them into my world (N/D app dev)and save me a lot of time doing Q&A and dee-fence of the application environment.

HS

Posted by Howard Shevitz At 05:13:26 On 10/12/2008 | - Website - |

9 - Nice article....Congrats. Emoticon

Posted by Curt Carlson At 05:40:24 On 10/12/2008 | - Website - |

10 - The NY Times, very nice you may now address the graduates when you pick up an honorary Journalism Degree at Lotus Top-Flight.
Seriously though, great work and look for more from you.

Posted by Keith Brooks At 05:57:55 On 10/12/2008 | - Website - |

11 - Yay!

Posted by Kitty Elsmore At 11:31:36 On 10/12/2008 | - Website - |

12 - First, congrats (but I already told you that!).

"OK... I can retire now. I'll have a hard time topping that five minutes... :)
"

You've got to be kidding me! You just received some wonderfully major exposure. This is not the "top" it is the beginning!

Posted by Corey Davis At 14:06:21 On 10/12/2008 | - Website - |

13 - Very well done Duff. Just read the article on the NYT site.

Shall buy you a beer in Floriday

P

Posted by Paul Mooney At 21:07:42 On 10/12/2008 | - Website - |

14 - AWESOME! Very Cool!
Bribing and sucking up is fine if it's from the heart. (spices) Emoticon

I enjoyed the feedback comments. Our buds were really supporting the platform especially when the usual "Notes Sucks" guy chirps in. In a nice way too.

Way to go, Dude!

Posted by Curt Stone At 08:16:52 On 11/12/2008 | - Website - |