• Dan and Jennifer Digmann’s Web site
• Colleague and his wife -- both among my dear friends -- sharing stories of their life with Multiple Sclerosis

• Cynthia Drake’s The Original Cynthia
• Friend and colleague pursuing her dream career: Freelance writing

• Rachel Esterline’s A Step Ahead
• A CMU integrative public relations student and former CMU PR and Marketing intern who is, undeniably, a PR star in the making

• Ryan Koral’s Epic Motion
• A favorite high-school classmate who has gone on to become a successful entrepreneur and the best videographer in metro Detroit

• Jess Miller’s Diary of a Late-Blooming Athlete
• Friend and future librarian who joined me in my quest for a healthier lifestyle in 2005 and has since taken it to a whole other level

• Kris (Barr) Paquette’s Dandelion Quilts
• College friend and former roommate who has, not surprisingly, become an incredible teacher, wife, mother and crafter

• Jaimie Ward’s Photos by Jaimie
• Professional site of photographer, Web designer and friend ... and the creative mind behind this site design

• Ryan Wood’s Wood Frames
• Friend, former colleague and Midland Daily News photo editor -- the Michigan Press Photographers Association’s Photo Editor of the Year for three years running

• Jeffrey Zaslow’s Web site for his new book, “The Girls from Ames”
• WSJ columnist and “The Last Lecture” co-author, who I had the pleasure of meeting in early 2009. In a rather ironic twist, he quoted one of my clients in this column just two days before I received my layoff notice.

• Alonzo Bodden
• Stand-up comedian and the season 3 winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing”

• Mike Errico
• NYC-based singer/songwriter, journalist, blogger and unofficial comedian

• John Heffron
• Stand-up comedian and the season 2 winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” -- Detroiters also may remember him as one of Danny Bonaduce’s sidekicks on Q95 FM

• Jason LeVasseur
• Nashville-based singer/songwriter who is the award-winningest musical act on the college circuit

• CNN.com, where I’ve been fortunate enough to have several stories placed

• The Detroit Free Press, where many of my fellow CMU graduates -- including my first editor -- work

• The Detroit News, another paper that employs fellow CMU grads

• The Oakland Press, the paper for which I wrote during my high school years

• The Oxford Leader, which offers me news from my hometown (although I recognize fewer and fewer names these days)

• The Morning Sun, the daily newspaper in Mount Pleasant, Mich. -- and the site of my first full-time job

• The News @ Central, Central Michigan University’s online newsroom

• Central Michigan Life, CMU’s independent student newspaper, where I worked in college as a reporter and editor

• The AP Stylebook on Twitter

• Editor & Publisher, the “information authority for the newspaper industry”

• The Michigan Press Association, the “official trade association for the newspapers of Michigan”

• PowerReporting.com, a resource-filled site I learned about when its founder, Bill Dedman, spoke in one of my journalism classes about a decade ago ... and I’ve been using it ever since

• Poynter, the home of all things journalism

• PR Week, the publication that offers “news, analysis and jobs for the public relations world”

• Public Relations Society of America, the professional organization for PR practitioners

• Ragan.com, a site full of industry news, tips, tactics, professional development opportunities and more

• Society of Professional Journalists, the professional organization for journalists