Last month my niece (and favorite goddaughter Kerri) graduated from high school and announced that the summer of 2012 was going to be the Summer of Doing Everything.

I am no scientist.  Just ask my son the scientist. And I am no Facebook advocate. Just ask Mark Zuckerberg. Still, all the recent excitement over the God particle got me thinking how awesome it must be to be a scientist and to know with almost complete certainty that you've actually achieved something real.  Think about it.  Peter Higgs hypothesizes the existence of this particle, then PROVES it through experiments.

I love the term "data mining".  I can almost picture a group of industrious businessmen in hard hats shoveling away in the heat and darkness, barely able to breathe, just for the chance to discover an elusive bit of information that will not only invade my privacy, but will also state the obvious.

As public relations and marketing professionals, we write a lot… and that is an understatement. No matter what we write, we make sure to follow writing processes to help us develop creative, compelling copy that reaches our target audience effectively.

After months of talking about launching a campaign, a client recently called to inform us they were in a rush to get the first key elements of the campaign running. They wondered how quickly we could get things done, since the finish line wasn't far away.

Hopefully this is not a case of the guy who turned old and lost touch with the younger generation. But over the course of the past couple years - and more particularly over the past few weeks - I have noticed a shift in what was once standard protocol.

Every day in Cleveland brings another day of hope and promise for a new and revived city. But hope only gets you so far.  It is really high time for someone - anyone - to step up with a solution.