So I’m sitting in the Metro Courthouse tonight watching Meg get her job back when I get this Tweet:

This is fabulous for two reasons: A) Meg got her job back, and B) I’ve been trying to meet @thinktrain for quite a while now and kept missing him at events like the Nashville Twestival — then there he was sitting two feet from me and I had no clue!

Great meeting you, dude!

Oh, and his name is Rob, by the way. He’s a Nashville flack who does great work.  Follow him on Twitter: @thinktrain.

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So me and the hubbster are going to Bar Camp Nashville tomorrow. I’m looking forward to attending WordPress 101, PR 2.0, New Media for Change and, of course, Make Google Your Bitch.

Bar Camp is free. There will be a plethora of Nashville Geeks, beer and Apple products. I’m excited to meet in person folks that I’ve only Twittered with up until now. This is also why I’m excited about our trip to Austin’s South by Southwest Interactive in March.

Are you attending Bar Camp? If you need more info, here’s the boilerplate:

BarCamp Nashville is an open-source gathering of technology enthusiasts who come together for one weekend to share what they know and learn what they don???t. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

They say it’s poor form to call and thank a reporter for a good/accurate story, and for the most part I agree.

So while I won’t be calling and saying “hey, thanks” to the folks who crafted thoughtful and well-written stories about the Southern Festival of Books, I will say here how grateful I am for reporters, editors and bloggers who so obviously “get” what a festival of this nature means to the City of Nashville. Not all of them do, of course.

I’ve attended the Southern Festival of Books most of my life and it’s an honor to do their PR, but no amount of pitching can make a reporter say something like,  “I attended this event and it made me proud of Nashville.”

I’m not grateful that the print media covered the event, that’s what people pay me to ensure. I’m grateful for the sincerity of the coverage.

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Sidebar: I will thank a reporter for making the trek out to cover an event because they don’t have to; but they should “have to” file well-written and accurate stories, ya know?