Okay, famous might be a little strong, but I did get interviewed for the Triad Business Journal, and they wrote it up in the Triad Talk section. You can read it here under the sub-head "Following a Leader."
The wildest thing about this to me is that I created the Winston-Salem Business blog on a lark, and it literally took me about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Then I went on vacation and came back to an email from a reporter who’d had the blog forwarded to him by somebody. The reporter contacted me, interviewed me and the article appeared a week later. If I had ever doubted blogs as a marketing or PR medium this would have settled it for me.
Another interesting thing about this is that I was interviewed by email, which from my understanding is becoming much more common these days. From my perspective it’s good in the sense that it’s very hard to be mis-quoted this way, although I feel for someone being interviewed who doesn’t write much or doesn’t type well. From the reporters perspective I’d think that you lose alot of the subtle meaning conveyed in tone you get with phone interviews, and non-verbal clues you get in face-to-face interviews. But for something like this (pretty straightforward local business-interest piece) it’s a great way to go.
