Friday, September 29, 2006

Middle Tennessee Blogger and Podcaster's Group Members

Bad Bad Ivy
Bad Bad Ivy, the blogger behind "the badbadivy experience" and Home-Ec 101. Ivy started blogging on Livejournal in 2003, and has been blogging away ever since. She is now a paid blogger for ParentsConnect, Viacom's new parenting website.

Blogs
Personal: http://badbadivy.wordpress.com/
Business: Curbly

Christian Grantham
Christian Grantham is a producer for ABC's Nashville affiliate WKRN News 2. Besides on air content, he is responsible for implenting blogs for WKRN's video journalists. Grantham graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1997. He was an intern in the Clinton Gore White House and later worked as an independent consultant on domestic policy forums in the second term of the Clinton Administration. Grantham later became a talk show host with a company that became a channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. He ran his own commercially licensed webcast for three years that became two music channels on Apple's iTunes.

Grantham recently returned to Tennessee with his partner of seven years and currently lives in Murfreesboro.

Blogs
Personal: christiangrantham.com

Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth is a socially reserved individual with interests in computers, her admittedly strange husband, the internet, all things electronic, needlework, books, and guns. Her main claim to fame, such as it is, is being the owner of one of the most creative blog names on the internet. She currently works as a secretary for the state, and at restraining her husband's impulses (See: Gunner - NoQuarters). In her not-so-copious spare time she occasionally posts on her blog: "The Harelipfrog" and has been invited to post on "This is Smyrna". She likes music of almost all kinds (IE Handel, David Bowie, Alison Krause and Pink) and books of almost all kinds as long as they are well written (no modern romance novels please).

Blogs
Personal: harelipfrog.blogspot.com
Community: thisissmyrnatn.blogspot.com or thisissmyrnatn.com

Gunner Miller

Gunner is a disabled pre-press technician who found blogging as a form of expression to his political views and frustration of the political system and todays society. His interests include reading, computers, privacy rights, and firearms. He's been married 17 years and currently lives in Smyrna Tennessee. He considers his family the most important thing in his life. He posts on "No Quarters", "This is Smyrna, TN", and occasionally on "Say Uncle" and "Harelipfrog". He is a strong believer in Vermont carry. He likes his steaks medium well, his Rum and coke heavy on the rum and fries over baked potatoes anyday of the week.

Blogs
Personal: noquarters.blogspot.com and harelipfrog.blogspot.com
Community: thisissmyrnatn.blogspot.com or thisissmyrnatn.com

Katherine Coble
Katherine Coble is a writer who majored in Political Science, Philosophy and English Literature at Taylor University. That means she's spent the last fifteen years of her life holding down odd jobs. Perhaps the oddest job she's ever had is being a blogger. Admittedly there are long hours and low pay, but at least the dress code is workable. She considers blogging to be some sort of chimera of creative writing exercises, journalism and old men whittling in rocking chairs.

Her blog "Just Another Pretty Farce" is read either by three hundred people a day or three people one hundred times a day.

Blogs:
Business and Personal: mycropht.blogspot.com

Kathy Tyson

If you smell something burning, it’s probably just campfire smoke. Kathy Tyson is a Girl Scout leader, former PTO president, a published writer, Mom, do-gooder fundraiser, Realtor©, and community rabble-rouser. When her community web log causes a stir, it confirms to her that blogging is the world’s next mighty tool for mass communication. Kathy holds a B.S. in communications from Murray State University. She served as the director of communications for the National Association of State Treasurers and was the founding staff member of the national College Savings Plans Network, an organization that provides a one-stop resource for state 529 plans.

Blogs
Community: lavergne-tn.blogspot.com
Business: midtnrealty.blogspot.com
Personal: mom2spoiledkids.blogspot.com

M. McManus
In real life, M. is a Web Marketing Specialist for a global supply chain management company and an e-Communications Chair Person for a Marketing and Communications Association. While disengaged from the demands of adulthood, M. studies martial arts, Mandarin Chinese and blogs for "This Is Smyrna, TN" (and owns the domain, thisissmyrnatn.com and .org), "Comment Tater" and "Warehousing and Distribution".

M. likes the ambiguity of being M. and enjoys bringing people together. M. founded the Middle Tennessee Blogger and Podcaster's Group with the first meeting being held in a park on October 22nd of 2005. M. studied Business Ownership and Management, Computer Programming and Civil and Construction Engineering at Nashville State Tech. M. hopes to live long enough to see the day where science will allow us to live long years without hunger, disease and pain. M. loves the concepts of physics and science and is a subscriber of The Bleeping Herald.

Blogs
Personal: commenttater.blogspot.com
Community: thisissmyrnatn.blogspot.com or thisissmyrnatn.com
Business: thirdpartylogistics.blogspot.com

Malia Carden
Blogging since April 2005, Malia Carden is a stay-at-home mother of two children, a daughter age 6 and a son age 2. A former research assistant for a long-term care insurance consultant, Malia has found herself back on the Internet but instead of reading about home health care, is now interacting with the lives of old friends, family members and the Nashville is Talking community. Joining the ranks of the “MommyBloggers” blogging on "Musings From Malicious", Malia finds blogging an intriguing outlet for the adventures and trials of being a parent and a way to express herself in a grown-up world while living in a decidedly child centered atmosphere. Malia enjoys reading, playing bunco with friends, trying new restaurants, shopping on ebay and listening to music. She is married to her high school sweetheart, David.

Blogs
Personal: maliakcarden.blogspot.com

Michael Hickerson

Blogger by day and superhero by night, Michael Hickerson began his Nashville famous blog, Big Orange Michael, close to three years ago with one mission in mind--to meet women. Alas, his first desparate pleas for attention failed to garner any real interest and he settled in to obsessing about UT sports, TV shows and any other random event in his so-called life that he felt the Internet just had to know about.

Michael has a degree in communications with emphasis in journalism from the University of Tennessee, where he spent five years. In his varied career, he's been a sports editor, worked in customer service, delivered live golf scores and content, run a small business and is currently the web site coordinator for a local family-run business. Michael is a resident of Smyrna, Tenenssee, where he spends a lot of time spoiling his niece and nephew.

Michael writes for "Big Orange Michael" is a contributing writer to the Nashville media-related blog, "All Along the Watchtower," and is a contributing member to "This is Smyrna, TN".

Blogs
Personal: bigorangemichael.blogspot.com, aatwfilm.blogspot.com
Community: thisissmyrnatn.blogspot.com or thisissmyrnatn.com

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