wendy’s office hours
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Thanks to an idea some modern journalists are kicking around, I’m going to start keeping office hours at local eateries. So, on Sunday, Tampans can find me at the Panera Bread on the corner of Fowler and Bruce B. Downs.
I will be at the location from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.; anyone with a story they’d like to tell is welcome to join me in breaking bread (literally). Eventually I’ll have cards printed up to bring with me, but in this initial meetup / office hours experiment, I’m only going to have my notebook with me.
In the next few weeks, I plan to have more meetups / office hours at different locations and times. If anyone has a story they’d like to tell but can’t make it on Sunday, please let me know through my email, wendylbolm (at) gmail.com.
Everyone is welcome. If any other bloggers / journalists in the area would like to join me, please come and enjoy. I will be wearing a very bright, yellow, patterned satin shirt.
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December 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
That’s great but who’s buying? I know an (ex-)editor who once wrote a column inviting readers to stop by a specific bar one evening and tell him what they thought about his paper. The publisher, sensing such a bar tab would bankrupt the company, pulled the column before it ran. No such thing as free beer, or sandwiches either.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
At this point, everyone’s buying their own, that’s why I’m considering it a meetup. If I start up a successful freelancing career or get a job with a company that will finance such excursions, then there will be free food, etc.