Hello All,

While driving to Oxford a few weeks back, I was listening to NPR and the commentator was discussing potential candidates for the presidency. The announcer mentioned some obscure name that I can't recall but what I do remember stuck. He said the presidential candidate had sound ideas on how to fix this nation, but wasn't taken serious because he hadn't engaged the press and was somewhat obscure.

It hit me because it reminded me of my campaign. Certainly, I had good intentions on going to schools and helping students become actively engaged in reading; moreover help them to understand what Fuji later had to understand - that you can't simply dream a dream, you have to own a dream. But how was this supposed to come across to the American Public? Certainly that old adage: "If you build it they will come" hadn't applied to our website because too few traffic was entering to learn about our literacy cause.

So I've hired the services of Scott Lorenz to help publicize our cause to the American public. More on that later.

I'd still welcome your ideas on how we can get more traffic to our website because when Internet users do get to my website they are buying into my team's cause including purchasing THE DAY I HIT A HOME RUN AT GREAT AMERICAN BALL PARK. Tim Fauley is right now working through Google's Ad Words to try to find the right combination of words to get book buyers to our site.

My goal is to keep the blog page updated every two to three days. I'd update it more frequently if I had more users responding back to me. It's hard for me to become engaged when all I seem to be doing is createing what I feel sometimes is a diary; rather than building a repoirt with you - my audience.

This blog has been created for a free exchange of ideas.