Martin Green Starts a Blog

Every now and then you start a consulting gig and you end up with a friend. I'm just winding up a couple of months of helping CNET Communities with a few things regarding message and blog.  I'm only scheduled to be over there one more time.

My primary contact over there has been Martin Green, general manager of the Communities Group which will have a lot of things to talk about in the next few months. Martin is surprisingly shy for someone on the GM level, that is until he starts talking about his Communities division.  Then he has the tenacity of a dog with a bone.

It was during a conversation with Martin that I thought up the title, Global Neighborhoods for the book. When he starts going public with what they are doing, you'll hear a good deal about neighborhoods, an idea he developed before I lifted it.

I think Martin is a prince of a guy. I hope we remain friends.

But that's not why I'm writing this.  I'm writing because Martin has finally started a personal blog. I have pushed, prodded, pleaded and cajoled him to start his own blog. Now that I am quacking and limping my way out the door, he starts one. 

I feel like it's a going away present.  For me, it's the next best thing to a bonus check.