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“Social director” used to be viewed as a job for the boss’s wife or a job for paid “social butterfly.” but the 21st century “social media” director has education, imagination, writing skills, and respect. The life of a PIO will never be the same again.

Multnomah County has opened up a job for a “Chair’s Office Communication Director/Multnomah County Social Media Coordinator.” It closes on 5/20/09, so don’t dawdle.

“Do you tweet and use Facebook? Are you experienced with building social communities? Can you crank out news releases, editorials, and web content on tight deadlines? Have you been a one-person video crew? Are you a stickler for grammar and punctuation? Do you know your way around web tools, web development and search engine optimization?

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The questions about complying with Oregon’s Smokefree Workplace Law (2007 SB 571, 2007 Laws Chap. 602) are thick on the ground, or in the air.

As is true with a lot of new laws, no one is completely sure how this law will all play out in real life. A lot of planning went into its drafting, and now that it has gone into effect, people are still asking those “what if” questions.

If you have a question about the Smokefree Workplace Law:

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I like this: Publisher Confidential. Writers might find it useful too.

It’s from the creators of Unshelved, who have been talking, and listening, to public librarians for a long time. You can download Publisher Confidential (PDF), free!

Law librarians could probably add a few more pages, but we’re not as restrained as the public librarians featured in Publisher Confidential. Maybe we’ve just been pushed a bit too much and too hard in the past couple of decades and are may be approaching “Fleeting Expletives” territory.

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Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns with his, not to be missed, column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine:

“It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding): ‘After 28 years of filling this space, Beds suddenly notices he’s aging,’ by Justice William W. Bedsworth:

I have gone gently into the good night of geezerhood. I’m not sure exactly when it happened. At some point, apparently while my attention was diverted, I went from being “The Kid”(1) to being “Acting PJ.” That’s like going to bed Warren Zevon and waking up The Werewolf of London.

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Government website on the flu: PandemicFlu dot gov. Also, from the CDC , WHO, Wikipedia and beyond, learn about Endemics, and pandemics and Epidemics.

Those of you who have read some histories of the Flu of 1918 (as opposed to reading just headlines), or some of the less overwrought news (e.g. at the CDC) may recall that there was a 1918 Springtime outbreak of flu that preceded the more virulent Autumn one. (I liked John Barry’s book, the Great Influenza, but there are others, many others.) You may also recall that those who caught the early, less virulent form either didn’t get the deadly one or had a better outcome if they did (they lived) than those who had not been exposed previously. They were, in purely layperson’s terms, “vaccinated.”

As my father used to say about Calculus 101. If you survived it, you had been vaccinated and were immune; you didn’t have to get it (take it) again. You might go on to get Calculus 201, but you had a better chance of survival than if you hadn’t been exposed previously to Calculus 101.

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A question frequently asked in law libraries: What is the highest interest rate imposed on debts allowed by Oregon law?

Here is my 2009 (before the end of the current 2009 Legislative Session) answer to the general question, when it comes to me via email.

(Note: if your situation is more complex than trying to figure out what the interest rate on that unpaid parking ticket is going to be, or what to charge your adult child for a car loan, I recommend you talk to an attorney. Answers to questions about interest rates on credit cards, on debts, on child support, on money judgments, etc. need more research than the average person can do “on the web.” NO, no, no – it is NOT all online.)

The very shortest answer to the general question is “It Depends!”

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I saw the link to Wordle at a Jim Calloway blog post and decided to try it out with the text of a bill in the Oregon Legislature. Here is what Wordle does to it: 2009 HB 2813.

Wordle has some interesting uses, perhaps for writers who want a check on what their article, story, or other writing reveals about their use/overuse of certain words. If the word LIKE is bigger than all your other word, like wow, like get an editor – as if.

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We all need a little bit of comic relief and today’s suggestion comes to you from the lawyers and law librarians behind: “Top 3 ‘Peeps in Law’ Entries” from the ABA Journal Law News Now, Apr 13, 2009,by Molly McDonough.

Don’t forget to click on the Peeps in Law Gallery for contest entries.

(Librarians also play Pimp My Bookcart for their comic relief.)

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Visit the Oregon Nonprofit Leaders Conference website for more information. And look at their sponsors and their resource lists too.

Meet with grant makers and grant writers, learn about managing staff and finances, and meet with others who have the same questions you do.

Nonprofits in Oregon have excellent resources for learning how to run effective and fiscally sound nonprofit organizations. Visit the TACS website.

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