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An Innovative Opportunity for Journalism: An Open Letter to the Poynter Institute and Tampa Bay Times

By Vinny On January 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

An Innovative Opportunity for Journalism

An Open Letter to the Poynter Institute and Tampa Bay Times

Since taking a handful of journalism and media classes in college, I have had a respect for, and interest in journalism and the art of reporting the news. The in-depth written story that a journalist delivers is [...]

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5.25 Mile Run touching all parts that surround Tampa's Urban Center.

Thoughts on Running, Tampa, Inspiration and the New Year

By Vinny On December 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I am proud to say that I have completed my goal of running 200 miles in 2012. I ran 6.26 miles today bringing my total to 201.26 miles run outdoors.

I did not set out this year to run 200 miles. My initial goal was to a run a 5K which I did with the Gasparilla [...]

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St Pete Times Re-brands to Tampa Bay Times – Can the Tribune Survive?

By Vinny On November 1, 2011 · 4 Comments

It’s not often we get to say simply, “I was right” but this morning I woke to some exciting news in an email blasted letter from Times Chairman and CEO Paul Tash. As I predicted in September here, the St Petersburg Times will in fact become the Tampa Bay Times.

The change [...]

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Steve Jobs: Perseverance, Efficacy and Death’s Influence on Lifestyle Design

By Vinny On October 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

With the death of Steve Jobs we have lost a great creator, innovator and inspiration. We have lost someone who understood the need to choose passion for life over work for the sake of work. We lost someone who, while wildly successful early in life would not have given up if it had taken longer or [...]

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With Komen 5K, my 2011 running goal is almost complete

By Vinny On October 2, 2011 · 3 Comments

Yesterday I completed the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K in downtown St Petersburg, my third of four planned competitive 5K’s for 2011. My final 2011 race will be Richard’s Run for Life on 11/4/2011 in Ybor City.

I want to thank my mother Donna, uncle Phil and [...]

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Jobsite Theater – The Guys

By Vinny On September 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

On Sunday I was able to catch the final showing of Jobsite Theater’s production of the The Guys and am glad I made it.

As a regular fan of their shows I am always entertained and have a great time.

The Guys is phenomenal theater; Paul and Roz Potenza were moving and perfect in [...]

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Excited About Leadership Tampa Bay – Class of 2012

By Vinny On September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Last night I attended the Kick Off reception for Leadership Tampa Bay’s 2011-2012 Class and have to say I am very excited to be a part of this program.

I committed over five years to leadership of Ad 2 Tampa Bay and Ad 2 National culminating as National Chair in 2007-2008 with a voting seat [...]

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Tampa Bay Times to win Tampa Bay Newspaper War

By Vinny On September 13, 2011 · 9 Comments

Last week’s unfortunate news about another round of pay cuts at the St Pete Times prompted me to revisit a story I have been watching unfold for five years.

I can find nothing written and have only discussed this with a small number of people in the past five years it is time [...]

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B (Benefit) Corps, the Business Model to Watch

By Vinny On September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

As an entrepreneur and small business owner I often find myself in conflict feeling comfortable with large corporations. I remember looking into a Sam’s Club membership about five years ago and walking out of the store when they offered, as part of their ”Small Business Membership” to provide me a free website package.

Wait… that’s what I do… [...]

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Will Casey Anthony Outrage Lead to More Individual Involvement?

By Vinny On July 6, 2011 · 2 Comments

For the past three years I have not followed the happenings of the Casey Anthony case. For the past 30 days I used selective ignorance to avoid the trial.

However as the month of June closed, I could hardly avoid hearing about it from people around me, so I was made aware that we were obviously in the middle [...]

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