The couples that surround me…my best friends from my college days, a former K-State grad student (and her hubby) who has gone on to UTAustin…they’re all having babies. Over the summer, strangely enough, a former PR student of mine e-mailed me to let me know what she was doing as part of her new, after-graduation job. Lo-and-behold, part of her responsibilities is to peruse blogs about motherhood, parenting and the what-not, to help her firm’s client determine what new mothers find to be vital, right here and right now.

Then there’s a health advocacy group I’m a part of, and we’re trying to find ways to draw more of those we serve to our Web site’s forum boards. The plus is that we’re new and fresh; the minus is that we have competition, successful competition at that. At the same time, we’ve established virtual offices in Second Life, a virtual community (check it out if you’ve never heard of it (http://www.secondlife.com).  We’re trying to draw people to our virtual presence, so we’re holding a pseudo-event on 9/23 (if you’d like more details, give me a yell). I’M SURROUNDED BY PUBLIC RELATIONS!!!