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
519 404 5588
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.

Friday, June 03, 2005

my silence ...
well I thought that when i quit my full time job I would have more time to blog. Well apparently that was not the case. I love not working for anyone full time, but it does not mean I am not working hard. I will make more of an effort to blog, and I also plan to overhaul the look of the blog. It is awefully sparse at this point, I really do know how to change that!

Anyway, I am busy teaching a class where I am using a blog to manage the class and have the students use blogs and bloglines to manage 'out of classroom' discussion. The feedback from this project is pretty interesting. The class at Delaware has wrapped up and the Delaware PR people wrote an nice piece on it recently.

Aside from that, am working with Eliza on a couple of racing blogs. Once one of them is ready (hopefully this weekend), will post here. I am also still doing some consulting work for my previous employer as I start to ramp up my new consulting work which I will post about next week (and galloping horses in the AM). Life is busy, but would not be good otherwise!