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The Care Advocates is brought to you by the All Home Care Matters Media team and focuses on providing family caregivers and their loved ones with support, resources, and discussion on the issues facing them in the matrix of long-term care.   The Care Advocates are honored to welcome, Kimberly Jacobsen as guest to the show.   About Kimberly Jacobsen:   Kimberly is the Managing Director and Commission Attorney/ Employment matters at the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. She manages attorneys, investigators, and support staff. Additionally, she serves as a resource for the agency's regional offices and is involved in the preparation of the agency's legislative proposals.   She has special interest in disability law. Kimberly also serves on the West Hartford Disability Commission and on the Connecticut Bar Association's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. In recent years, Kimberly has been speaking publicly about living well with Parkinson's Disease in many different forums.   She put out several YouTube videos about her diagnosis and the first few years of living with Parkinsons (Kim Jacobsen's Parkinson's Journey - YouTube). She also regularly posts short videos on Instagram (@livingwellwithparkinsons) and TikTok (@livingwellwithparkinsons). She has written an article for the Connecticut Lawyer's Magazine titled “My Disability Makes Me a Better Lawyer” (ctl-janfeb-22---dei.pdf (ctbar.org)).   About Lance A. Slatton:   Lance A. Slatton is an author, writer, host, producer, healthcare professional for over 20 years, and renownedly known as "The Senior Care Influencer". Lance A. Slatton is the host of the Award-Winning podcast & YouTube show All Home Care Matters. He is also a senior case manager at Enriched Life Home Care Services in Livonia, MI. Lance was named as "50 under 50" for 2023 and received the distinction as the Top Influencer for Healthcare and Advocacy for 2024. Lance is also a columnist for multiple healthcare and news websites and and is the author of the award winning book "The All Home Care Matters Official Family Caregivers' Guide".   About Sharon's Son, George:   Dr. George Ackerman (Sharon's son) is from Brooklyn, N.Y. Now residing in Florida, he works in the fields of law, police, and education. George lost his mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman on 1/1/2020 due to Parkinson's Disease. George wanted to honor his mother and continue to help in the Parkinson's awareness cause and did not know how to bring change. George started TogetherForSharon® as a family for the purpose of keeping his mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman's, memory alive and to share the message of Parkinson's Awareness and hope for a cure.   Today, https://www.togetherforsharon.com/ reaches thousands of individuals across the country for PD Awareness. George currently interviews individuals throughout the Parkinson's community including various foundations, caregivers, and Parkinson's warriors to help share their stories and causes.    

Listen as guest speaker and Shipman & Goodwin partner, Peter Murphy and host, Daniel Schwartz chat about what employers should know when it comes to the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO). In October, Peter hosted a webinar with Kimberly Jacobsen and Michelle Dumas Kueler from the CHRO's legal office where they discussed what the commission has been focusing on, weaving in suggestions for employers on beneficial practices to follow when working with the CHRO. This podcast goes beyond the webinar as Dan and Peter discuss in more depth the CHRO as an organization, their case assessment review process, thoughts on position statements and more. After listening, head over to our website to watch Peter's webinar with Kimberly Jacobsen and Michelle Dumas Kueler.

In episode 46, host Ari Kwiatkowski is back to continue the conversation with her New Haven-based colleague Dan Elliott. In this second installment about the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), Ari and Dan pick up where they left off in the last episode, going through the stages of a complaint filed with the CHRO. From mandatory mediation to an optional early legal intervention to the fact-finding conference, listeners will hear some of the differences between Connecticut and New York law for this process and what employers can expect. Ari and Dan wrap up with an important reminder: only attorneys admitted to practice in Connecticut can represent an employer in these matters. Tune in to hear more.

Episode 45 of Barclay Damon Live: Labor & Employment Podcast finds host Ari Kwiatkowski switching gears—and states—to talk with her Barclay Damon colleague Dan Elliott about the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO). The conversation launches with a description of the CHRO, a state agency that is statutorily empowered to monitor, investigate, and enforce human rights and antidiscrimination laws. Like in New York and other states, an employee can file a complaint with the agency. From there, the process is similar, though there are a few notable differences. Listen in to this brief episode to hear Dan lay out the timeline and more. And be sure to tune in for the next episode for more information.

Nationally recognized and award-winning Teacher Librarian, speaker, and host of the Joyful Learning Podcast, Melissa Thom chats with Barbara Johnson, a influential school library media specialist, Maker, wife and mother of four—with a long list of interesting hobbies and diverse paying side jobs—about collecting, curating and sharing ideas in a digital world, building diverse school library collections, and preparing for and responding to book challenges. Don't miss this great conversation! Barbara's Bio: Barbara is a former Director of Technology & Technology Integration Specialist, and earned her MLIS in 2014. She is passionate about bringing innovative technology to my school learning community. Barbara organized the MakerMeetup for Maker Librarians to play, hack, and discuss library issues. In 2018 the MakerMeetup was the Connecticut Association of School Librarians' (CASL) Pre-Conference and had over 130 attendees. She also initiated Colchester's Annual Digital Learning Day, a community-wide event that allows students to become the teachers in an "edCamp" style evening. Last spring, 75 students facilitated 25 activities for over 600 participants. Barbara continuously advocates for school libraries as the Past President of CASL and a member of both the State of Connecticut Commission for Educational Technology and Digital/Media Literacy Advisory Council. She is the AASL Affiliate Representative for Connecticut and has presented at the last three AASL Conferences on innovative teaching practices and school libraries. List of resources, suggested materials, affiliated links, and social media: Connect w/ Barbara: Twitter Facebook Connect w/ Kristina Holzweiss: Twitter Facebook Connect w/ Melissa: Twitter Connect w/ Carrie: Twitter Resources Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors article by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop Office for Intellectual Freedom Barbara's Johnson's interview with Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR regarding book challenges, “Connecticut Librarians Brace for ‘Tsunami of Book Challenges” Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists Book Recommendations For Middle Grade Readers: Ban this Book: A Novel by Alan Gratz Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison Varnes Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King For Young Adult Readers: Suggested Reading by Dave Connis

We have another exciting show for you this week! Here to talk about the importance of cybersecurity for K-12 schools is Doug Casey, Executive Director for the Connecticut Commission for Educational Technology and Cody Venzke, Senior Counsel for CDT's Equity in Civic Technology Project. More on our host, Jamal https://bit.ly/cdtjamal Attribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.

In this episode we have the pleasure of speaking with professor, director, and playwright, Dr. Carlton Molette!Barbara and Carlton Molette have been Dramatists Guild members since 1971. TheMorehouse-Spelman Players premiered ROSALEE PRITCHETT in 1970. The NegroEnsemble Company produced the New York premiere In 1971, as well as a revival in 2017for their 50th anniversary season. ROSALEE PRITCHETT has also been produced by TheFreeSouthern Theatre, several universitytheatres, published byDramatistsPlayService, andin the anthology Black Writers of America. In 1972, Atlanta University Summer Theatrepremiered DR. B.S. BLACK, a musical collaboration with Charles Mann, with Samuel L.Jackson as Dr. Black and LaTanya Richardson as his wife before she became his real-lifewife. After Washington, D. C., Houston, and Memphis productions, Theatre of the Stars andJust Us Theatre produced the musical at Atlanta's Peachtree Playhouse. BOOJI and NOAH'SARK (published in the anthology Center Stage) also premiered in Atlanta in the 1970's.More recently premieres include: FORTUNES OF THE MOOR (New York's Frank SilveraWriters' Workshop) with additional productions by Ghana's National Theatre; Chicago'sETA Creative Arts; and Brown, Ohio State, Western Michigan, Louisville, Pittsburgh andConnecticut universities; OUR SHORT STAY (Miami's M Ensemble); PRUDENCE(Connecticut Repertory Theatre after Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism'sPlaywright Award); LEGACY (Atlanta's New African Grove after Ethel Woolson Award);PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER (Houston's De Luxe Theater). Ten minute plays include: OUTOF TIME (New York's Turtle Shell); MOVE THE CAR (Warehouse Performing ArtsCenter, NC); TEE SHIRT HISTORY (Atlanta's Essential Theatre); A FOND FAREWELL(West Virginia's Greenbrier Valley Theatre); LAST SUPPER and KIN SHIP (Houston'sFade to Black). A reading of ADA's HUSBAND PASSED won the 2019 “Best of theFestival Award” at the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival.Barbara Molette (B.A. Florida A. & M. U.; M.F.A. Florida State U.; Ph.D. U. of Missouri)Professor Emerita and English Department Chair, Eastern Connecticut State U.; faculty atSpelman College, Texas Southern U.,Baltimore City Community College (also Director ofWritingAcross the Curriculum); Director of Arts-in-Education Programs, Cityof Baltimore.Carlton Molette (B.A. Morehouse; M.A., U. of Iowa; Ph.D. Florida State U.) U. ofConnecticut Professor Emeritus; faculty at Spelman College, Florida A. & M., Howard,Atlanta, Texas Southern Universities; Fine Arts Division Chair, Spelman; School ofCommunications Dean, Texas Southern; Arts and Sciences Dean, Lincoln (MO); VicePresident for Academic Affairs, Coppin State (MD).Learn more about MOJOAA at:www.MOJOAA.orgFacebook/Instagram: @MOJOAApac

Doug Casey, Connecticut Commission for Educational Technology, Executive Director The Get Connected/ Conectate campaign is a bilingual awareness effort to let unconnected residents in CT know that local providers are offering affordable packages. For more information: visit ct.gov/getconnected

In this episode of UnCOMMon Grounds, host Chris Roush interviews Raj Doering, a Public Relations and Economics double major. Raj currently interns for the Alzheimer's Association and the Connecticut Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity. On campus, Raj serves as President of the Economics Club, Vice President of Finance of PRSSA, and Co-Leader of the University Honors Program's Social Media and Publicity Committee. UnCOMMon Grounds is hosted by Chris Roush, dean of the school of communications, and is produced by Mike Bachmann. Heather Popovics manages social media, and the executive producer is David DesRoches, director of community programming.

After 40 years with Connecticut Community Care, the State’s leading long-term care management nonprofit organization, Molly Rees Gavin, President, today announced plans to retire. Concurrently, the CCC Board of Directors announced that, beginning August 3, Julia Evans Starr will succeed Gavin. As Executive Director of the Connecticut Commission on Aging, Julia and her Commissioners educated the General Assembly on a myriad of policy issues; one of the most recent of which was a nationally recognized “Livable Communities” initiative. Julia also has been instrumental in the development of numerous State Plans, the work of the Coalition for Elder Justice and MyPlaceCT.org. For the past 40 years, we have improved the lives of thousands of individuals of all ages and abilities, helping them to achieve their dreams to live how and where they choose. We are Connecticut’s premier and largest care management organization and are dedicated to partnering with individuals, families and supporters so that all people may remain independent and living at home.

With COVID19 continuing its federally down-played rampage, and two days after the horrific George Floyd murder, the wheels continue to fall off the clown car that is Donald Trump's America. Seaniebee and The Don take off the gloves to call out the relative ambivalence, inaction and lack of urgency that seems to permeate those educated Americans who appear content to continue sleep-walking their way to four more years of the current regime. There follows a pertinent interview with Cheryl Sharp, who was sounding the warning bells four years ago, prior to Trump being elected. ************************************ Attorney Cheryl Sharp - the Deputy Director of The State of Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities – joins the podcast today to discuss all that ails America: how Donald Trump is providing permission and voice to racism; why we should retire the ‘N'-word; the debate on guns and cop-killings; why Seaniebee cannot continue to blindly hire women; and why being a civil servant doesn't necessarily have to be a dead-end job bereft of creativity. ************************************** Release date: May 30th 2020 Runtime: 71m Recorded: Dublin (Cheshire, Connecticut)

https://bit.ly/39xJdgj The topic for today is making national and worldwide headlines - the Coronavirus. I speak with Doug Casey, Executive Director of the Connecticut Commission for Educational Technology, Nancy Byrnes, Director of Information Technology for Fairfield Public Schools, Fran Kompar, Director of Instructional Technology and Digital Learning for Wilton Public Schools, and Craig Tunks, Director of Digital Learning and Technology for Weston Public Schools. We discuss technology’s role in the event of an extended school closure due to Coronavirus or other health emergencies, how to properly train staff on distance learning, and how to support staff and students during a closure, and what state recommendations and guidelines are.

Suzanne Frischkorn is a talented and prolific poet living in Connecticut, my home state. Listen to her explain how she got into poetry and the poetry scene and what influenced her work and the many similarities that we shared "growing up" in CT as women writers and poets in our formative years. http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes You can purchase Girl on a Bridge here: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/girl-on-a-bridge/ Poem from Girl on a Bridge --- Great Lash You wear too much eye makeup. My sister wears too much. People think she's a whore. Our cornfields were paved in asphalt, sulfur lights snuffed our stars. When one of us had no shoes, we went barefoot, walking streets laid with tar. First we coated lashes blackest black from tubes of green and pink, our eyes lined kohl. If it was Thursday we found boyfriends and waited by the liquor store for anyone to buy us Smirnoff. Anyone at all. We were not sweet girls. * We were not sweet girls, yet we wore silver chains with silver hearts & crosses, onyx rings, blush, lipstick, powder. Hair flipped by vent brush before entering a night without stars. Our parents were line dancing, were bank tellers, were absent. We were a family that knew nothing about its members. * We cut school and watched Foxes. We cut school and drank vodka. We cut school and got stoned, did our makeup, walked the streets. One of us got out. One of us ran into our connection working a shoe store, one of us glimpsed another with a baby, one of us marries her Thursday night boyfriend and shatters her image. * We were not sweet girls, no. If there had been corn, or stars? Maybe the deep sweet girlness would have surfaced ― dreamy fresh-faced girls ― petals listening to rain.   You can purchase Lit Windowpane here:  https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/lit-windowpane/ Poem from Lit Windowpane-- Window  A damp windowsill means nothing— it’s no bird tapping       on a pane— I am waiting  for the swallow’s stone, the anodyne       to illness brought by sparrow song. This morning rain gathers in still puddles and the songbirds      sing without percussion― loud notes echo  the empty street— they sing and       sing and sing. No owl has brushed its wing against our windowpane and sunlight      overcomes the clouds. Thrush birdsong: lacey throated stars. The April        of our fifth year reeds withered around the pond.  Last summer I painted the porch ceiling       robin’s egg blue. Spring now and the sparrows  weave a nest in our dryer vent.      I watch you ladder your way into their world, lift  bits of twine and sticks and string, yet      you know they will return. How I love you then— how I should have loved you all along.   BIO:  Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Lit Windowpane (2008), Girl on a Bridge, (2010) and five chapbooks.  Her honors include the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook, Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writer’s Center, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Visit her website: https://suzannefrischkorn.com/

Wally Swist is the author of some three dozen books and chapbooks of poetry and prose, most recently The Bees of the Invisible. His book Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love was selected co-winner of the 2011 Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Contest, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa served as judge, and the book was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2012. Swist is a recipient of Artist's Fellowships in poetry from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts (1977 and 2003). He currently makes his home in western Massachusetts, where he is semi-retired and works as a freelance editor and writer. Order his most recent book, Bees of the Invisible, here: https://www.amazon.com/Bees-Invisible-Wally-Swist/dp/1947067893 Prologue: Bill Glose James Valvis Aaron Brown

SUE FROST is a founding member of Junkyard Dog Productions (with Randy Adams and Kenny and Marleen Alhadeff) which is dedicated to developing and producing new musicals. Broadway: COME FROM AWAY at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 2010 Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning Best Musical MEMPHIS, FIRST DATE. National tour and West End production of MEMPHIS. In development: CHASING THE SONG, FLY HIGH. Since its inception in 2006 Junkyard Dog has also produced VANITIES, MAKE ME A SONG (Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk noms.) and PARTY COME HERE. JYD also served as Executive Producer of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO on Broadway in 2015. Prior to founding Junkyard, Sue was Associate Producer at Goodspeed Musicals for 20 years, where she produced more than 50 new musicals at both the Goodspeed Opera House and the Norma Terris Theatre. She is proud to have established, in conjunction with the NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, an annual residency for composers, lyricists and librettists at the Goodspeed as well as the pilot program for Goodspeed’s Musical Theatre Institute. Prior to Goodspeed she worked as a company manager on several Broadway shows and tours including A CHORUS LINE, DANCIN’ and THE RINK. In addition to chairing two New American Works panels for the late Opera-Music Theatre Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Sue has served as a panelist and/or site evaluator for the NEA, the Philadelphia Theatre Institute, the Connecticut Commission for the Arts and Tourism, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Residency Program. She lectures regularly at Yale University and is a member of adjunct faculty at Columbia University. A graduate of Smith College, Sue is past president of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and is currently a member of the Broadway League’s Board of Governors, Executive, Tony Administration and Intra-Industry Committees as well as co-chair of the Audience Engagement Committee.

Today we’re airing a special episode to coincide with the first day of Black History Month, although you can listen on any day of the year. Our four guests today are intentionally from the Black diaspora, which Wikipedia describes as a “worldwide collection of communities descended from African peoples.” They were all recorded separately. Here’s the outline for the episode, including the bios of the guests, except for the interview which you’lll hear later, then we’ll get started. There will be a prayer, three poems, an interview, two more poems, and another prayer.  The Rev. Rowena Kemp, priest in charge at Grace Church, Hartford, will read a confession that’s part of the recommended liturgy for Episcopalians in Connecticut on February 10, a Sunday that was chosen by its members at their Annual Convention last fall to be a Day for Racial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation,  part of a Season of Racial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation. Rowena will close the episode with a prayer as well, reading a collect from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. In addition to serving as Priest-in-Charge at Grace Church in Hartford, Rowena is chaplain for the national Girls Friendly Society USA. She is a member of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut’s Standing Committee and numerous other groups, and serves as co-leader of the Episcopal Church’sRacial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation Ministry Network. She has a Master's in Clinical Research Administration and a Master's of Public Health, Health Policy and Management from New York Medical College. Before her work with the church, Rowena worked as a program manager for Yale University School of Medicine and is skilled in molecular biology, biochemical research, DNA sequencing, and biomarkers. Rowena graduated with an M.Div from Yale in 2013 and was ordained that year. She then served as a priest for the Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry, then assistant rector at Trinity on the Green in New Haven, and has been priest-in-charge at Grace since 2016. Dr. Eleanor Q. Tignor, a retired English professor who organizes an annual African American Read-in at her church, Trinity on the Green, New Haven, when people from the church and community take turns reading from African-American literature. She will read three poems, two in the beginning and one at the end. The first is, “On Being Brought From Africa to America.” It’s from the 1770s and was written by an enslaved woman. The second is “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the original poem by James Weldon Johnson that was put to music and is known as the “Negro National Anthem.” The third is by Dr. Maya Angelou and called, “Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem.” Dr. Tignor is a retired English professor, Professor Emerita, of LaGuardia Community College (City University of New York).  There she taught African American Literature and other English courses for 29 years, as a follow up to having taught at two colleges in Baltimore, Maryland, namely Morgan State College (now University) from which she received her B.A. in English and Coppin State College (now University).  She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Howard University, Washington, D.C. Both graduate dissertations are on African American fiction writers. Active over the years in professional organizations in English, she served as president of the historically black College Language Association and on various committees of the National Council of Teachers of English. It was as a member of the Black Caucus of the NCTE that she became interested in introducing the African American Read-In at Trinity. Our interview today is with Enola G. Aird, Esq., an activist mother and lawyer, who talks about the Community Healing Network, which she founded in 2006 at her church, St. Luke’s, New Haven. CHN has continued to expand and now has a global impact. It has a visionof "a world in which all Black people have moved beyond surviving to flourishing, and are enjoying life in all its fullness, in body, mind, and spirit" and a mission"to mobilize Black people across the African Diaspora to heal from the trauma caused by centuries of anti-Black racism, to free ourselves of toxic stereotypes, and to reclaim our dignity and humanity as people of African ancestry."  Enola G. Aird describes herself as an activist mother. A former corporate lawyer, she has worked at the Children’s Defense Fund, leading its violence prevention initiative and serving as acting director of its Black Community Crusade for Children; is a past chair of the Connecticut Commission on Children; and was a visiting scholar at the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College and earned her law degree from Yale University. She was born in the Republic of Panama, of Caribbean heritage, and attributes much of her vision and passion for the movement for emotional emancipation to stories passed down in her family about her great-grandfather, Samuel Alleyne, a loyal follower of Marcus Garvey. Our fourth guest is Marc-Yves Regis, a Haitian-born photojournalist, author and poet, who will read us one of his poems giving tribute to Rosa Parks, and another poem about his personal experience, which he titled, “My Face.” Marc was born in Haiti and spent his earliest years there, learning to love photography; he immigrated to this country and became a citizen in 1996. He earned a degree in photography at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and worked as a photojournalist for the Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, and the Hartford Courant, and as a freelancer. He is the author of five books about the people of Haiti and their ongoing struggles. He is also the founder and director of Camp Hispaniolathat provides annual summer camps in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, serving over 150 at each site. He frequently works as a photographer for the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, covering many of its significant diocesan occasions and events of the past nearly two decades, and also provides major photography for its annual magazine.

Attorney Cheryl Sharp - the Deputy Director of The State of Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities – joins the podcast today to discuss all that ails America: how Donald Trump is providing permission and voice to racism; why we should retire the ‘N'-word; the debate on guns and cop-killings; why Seaniebee cannot continue to blindly hire women; and why being a civil servant doesn't necessarily have to be a dead-end job bereft of creativity. Release date: March 10th 2016 Runtime: 35m Recorded: Cheshire, Connecticut

Leslie McGrath’s poems have been widely published in the US, as well as in England, Ireland and Japan. She is the author of the collection Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (2009), and the chapbook Toward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award. McGrath received her MFA in literature and poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars after receiving an MA in clinical psychology from Wesleyan University. Her poems have appeared frequently online and in print, and have been anthologized both in the US and India. McGrath was awarded a 2004 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism and has served on the judges’ panels for the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her literary interviews have been published frequently in The Writer's Chronicle and have also been aired on public radio.

At the time I recorded this show there were two great new media events taking place in the middle of June. That has changed. Podcamp New Hampshire 2010 was scheduled to take place the weekend of June 20, Father's day weekend, but it has now rescheduled to a yet to be determined date in October. What a pain that decision must have been to the promoters. It's still a great event to keep on your radar and you should seriously consider this once the new date is finalized. That leaves Podcast's Across Borders 2010, formerly held in Kingston Ontario, now relocated to Ottawa Ontario, June 18, 19 and 20. Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis are the promoters of this even and you can find out more about them at Canadian Podcast Buffet. You can check out shows I've done in the past for both Podcamp NH 2009 and PAB 2009. By the way, Podcamps take place throughout America and around the world and they're great places to meet helpful, knowledgeable creative people interested in media, social networking and online branding. You can check out the Podcamp.org site for listings of shows in your neck of the woods. Remember, Podcamps are networking seminar events where everyone, including you, is the teacher. Most of these events don't even charge a fee to attend. Don't let the price fool you though, these are top notch gatherings that will help you connect with the top thinkers in the social media and networking world. The remainder of the show is about self promotion - your own self promotion. After attending a day long workshop about business strategies for the artist, sponsored by the Connecticut Commission for the Arts I came away a number great ideas to consider. I'll talk about the sessions I attended in another show. There were three separate seminars presented in Connecticut this past spring and you can hear the recordings online on their site. Recordings of sessions from the May 1st event I attended have not been uploaded yet, so keep checking. In the remainder of the show I talked about the power of talking about your plans with other people and how that helps shape and propel your vision. Making your dreams come true is also a creative act and it begins when you speaking them out loud.