alex's blog: Its About the Horse!

Personal Philosophy: do as much as you can and some things will get done. And never regret an outcome as long as you know you tried.

Name: Alex

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alexbr 'dot' brown 'at' gmail 'dot' com
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Homepage The following highlight my current work, which is essentially working on the horse slaughter issue while galloping horses at various racetracks in North America. I am currently at Woodbine, ON Canada.

Alex Brown Exercise Rider and Horse Welfare Advocate: Blood Horse's Talkin' Horses
A Texas Sojourn: Texas Horse Talk, covers my winter in Texas (2007-8)
Sensible debate over unwanted horses would help anti-slaughter lobby: My essay on why horse slaughter is unecessary and is simply a demand-based business.
New York Times: The Rail I helped cover the 2008 Triple Crown via this blog. Very cool experience and exposure.
Alex Brown Racing: Started with Barbaro, now following horse racing in general, my exploits (traveling from racetrack to racetrack) and pushing to end horse slaughter. We have active discussion boards.
Alex Brown Racing: Unfolding Story: A wiki, designed to document horse welfare information from the above project.

The following are a couple of whitepapers I wrote while working in Business School Admissions.

Engagement Marketing Revisited: How to Embrace the New Social Media Tools: Published November 2009. This whitepaper is an updated version of the '06 Whitepaper to include social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Engagement Marketing: Published June 2006, Whitepaper. I wanted to write a paper that explains blogging and other web 2.0 techologies, and their impact on marketing, especially within the MBA admissions field.
Discussion Boards, Chat Rooms and the Power of Transparency: Published 2004.

The following are blog projects I have worked on etc.

Introduction to Marketing:
A class I taught at Wharton. Used the blog to manage communications and had each student create a blog to use to share insights and work on a group project.
Information Technology Marketing:
My final class at the University of Delaware (Spring 2007).
timwoolleyracing.com:
A site for a racehorse trainer. The entire site is a blog, and it was designed by Eliza.
paulrowlandracing.com:
A site for a racehorse trainer. See above.

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

currently in the UK, but mad busy working on this class: http://buad477.blogspot.com. I am sssooooo grateful for learning about news aggregators and specifically bloglines.com. we have 80 or so students in the class, and each is assigned, as a term project, to create a blog, i could not imagine trying to manage this without bloglines telling me when something has been updated etc. BRILLIANT ... (now if only they had a feature that listed in date the site was last updated on the left hand frame where it lists the site in bold when it has been updated).

i LOVE bloglines!

The 'keep new' feature has changed how i can read a web-site. sites like slashdot are pretty useless to me under normal circumstances as i do not visit often enough, and no doubt i miss some awesome discussions. with bloglines i can quickly glance at all new posts since i was last there and check 'keep new' the articles i want to read for later, store things more permanently if i know i am going to reference them later etc. i just think this feature is AWESOME and helps me plough through BBC, CNN etc. etc. now i don't miss an article, and don't worry about visiting the sites all the time!