Comments on: Today’s thought: Are the right leaders in place? http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/02/18/todays-thought-are-the-right-leaders-in-place/ Random musings from a technologist Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Wendy http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2008/02/18/todays-thought-are-the-right-leaders-in-place/comment-page-1/#comment-2297 Wendy Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:53:46 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=176#comment-2297 As a former member of the Dead Tree Society turned Webhead about four years ago, I say "yes" to most of the questions you raised above. Most of the folks on our website have print backgrounds, primarily because of the lack of younger multimedia-trained folks like yourself. It's all about embracing the Web, and that shouldn't matter what your background is. I've done that, and many of my colleagues have, for a variety of reasons, professional viability being only one of them. As I tell resistant print types and those new to online journalism, "If I can do it, you can do it . . . " But you have to WANT to do it. As a former member of the Dead Tree Society turned Webhead about four years ago, I say “yes” to most of the questions you raised above. Most of the folks on our website have print backgrounds, primarily because of the lack of younger multimedia-trained folks like yourself.

It’s all about embracing the Web, and that shouldn’t matter what your background is. I’ve done that, and many of my colleagues have, for a variety of reasons, professional viability being only one of them. As I tell resistant print types and those new to online journalism, “If I can do it, you can do it . . . ”

But you have to WANT to do it.

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