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Downhill

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While everyone else is doubling down on “local”, the Washington Post is cutting back.

Time will tell whether this strategy is a good one but it is counter to what is happening in the market.

I will tell you that I am bullish on local and we are hiring and investing as a media company in this space.

Eighty percent of consumer spending is done within 20 miles from home.

The great value creators – Google, eBay, Groupon – are all about local and small business.

Local media companies such as Regional Sports Networks create the value. Comcast basically paid ZERO for NBC. Zero. As in no value.

Cutting back on newsroom staff in Metro opens the door for many new local media companies. This is a sad state of affairs. The Post would rather send people to London and the Olympics than staff reporters in Bethesda, Maryland, or Great Falls, Virginia, or Cleveland Park in DC.

Bad move. Read this article on the Washington Post in the Washington Post. It is all downhill from here.

Time for Me to Have Some Fun

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The Washington Post is obsessed – obsessed, I say! – with the name of our local basketball team.

The run articles; polls; contests; editorials; videos; pod casts; and pictures – you name it – they have done it all, all around our name. I am grateful to a point.

Yet their name is The Washington Post.

Why “Post” you ask?

One of three reasons: It has to do with the “postal system” and their newspaper was delivered once by mail; “a way of riding a horse” so the paper was delivered by couriers on horses; or a broadsheet of info was “posted” on a public wall. Either way, that isn’t a very relevant name in today’s day and age. The paper was founded in 1877 and it may be time for a change.

So what do you think the paper should be renamed? What and how should it be re-branded?

What do you think their colors should be?

Thank you. Post and comment away here.

Mystics Win 3 in a Row

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We are now 7 and 4.

We are playing tight “D” minded basketball.

We are playing like a tightly functioning unit, and while we miss our best player who is out for the season, others have stepped up and contributed in a big way.

I am proud of our team. I am proud of the way Sheila Johnson has developed this team, and how our coach and GM have served our community by creating such a tough minded and smoothly functioning team.

Come on out to a game soon. Basketball is basketball.

“Make a Buck…

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and help the community.”

THIS is great.

THIS is the double bottom line ethos.

A new generation comes on the scene.

I didn’t know about this set of meetings. I wasn’t invited, and I am thrilled to say that a new generation is doing well by doing good.

Congratulations. Read this article and support these companies and people.

Mike Wise Mellows

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He is getting married, congratulations!

He was looking tanned, relaxed, and happy yesterday at our press conference.

He looked like he was ready to go on his honeymoon. He looked like he was in love!

Thanks for the nice words and enjoy the time off too. Go Caps! Go Wizards! Go Mystics! Go “deliverables!” :-)

Hover Over the Years

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I wanted to thank the Washington Post for this great interactive graphics package.

I want to remind everyone that without pain there can’t be any gain.

I want to thank everyone for sticking with us and believing in us and for your patience…

We have done the right thing the right way and we have work to do, but this package reminded me that the journey is the reward.

Now to enter the “reward is the reward” phase of the rebuild.

Click away. Very instructive.

Most Points in Team History

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One of my goals is to always improve year over year. That bar is getting higher to jump over and I am pleased that we have checked another one off our list. With our 1 point gained in Carolina last night we now have 109 points which is 1 more than last season and the most in franchise history. I think if we win one more game and get to 111 points we can clinch the Eastern Conference top spot. I may be wrong but I think that is the case.

We will need to win about 4 more games out of 8 left to play to clinch the President’s Trophy for most points in the NHL during the regular season. That is another goal to meet. We have work to do.

It is very motivating to hit goals and for those of you who have read my book “The Business of Happiness” you know how focused I am on getting checks marked off of lists.

I am proud of our coach. I was very concerned about last night’s game. We didn’t arrive into Carolina til very late after a very emotional game against the Penguins the night before. Taking a point is a good result for a team that plays on the road in a back to back situation. We have become greedy and we aren’t satisfied with just 1 point but I was still happy to add to our standing points.

I have said it before and I will say it again we have “miles to go before we sleep”.

We should enjoy the journey though. We should embrace our progress. We shouldn’t be satisfied. I get the joke but once in awhile it is ok to say” job well done”. Try to be happy. You can do it :-) .