Who is Franke James and why is she on the W-list?
Blame Liz Strauss and the SOBcon 07 event
Very kind of Liz to have vaulted me onto the W-list of notable women bloggers.
I’ve set up this ‘landing’ page, so that you can explore my two blogs:
1. Office-Politics (a blog that is teeming with office politics issues from Backstabbers to Office Princesses).
2. And my Franke James blog — where I write, illustrate and photograph on environmental issues. In the past 6 months I’ve blogged about selling our SUV, building a Green Driveway, and written a letter to my future Grandkids in 2020! I also write a feature called My Green Conscience — where I wrestle with the difficult reality of being green in North America.
So the quick synopsis about me is…
I am an artist, writer and storyteller. I have done many fun things over the years, including inventing online pseudo-psychology games like The Room, whacking the heads of Canadian politicians for saying too many dumb and stupid things, doing photography in snazzy places like Madrid, London and San Francisco, speaking to artists at software conferences about surviving and thriving, and telling visual stories about events like this Peace camp for kids. To read a more historical bio please visit my James Gang site.
My two main blogs are not really typical blogs at all, but they are catching people’s attention, and I hope, contributing to making the world a better place.
Check out my FrankeJames.com blog for two recent visual essays, A Green Winter: Will Global Warming be Good for Canada? and My SUV and Me Say Goodbye. The essays have been featured in the Toronto Star, Treehugger, Worldchanging, and some great blogs like Mark Federman’s What is the Message, Martin Edic’s Burner Trouble and Bentley’s Eco-Sherpa. I was honoured when the Ottawa Citizen ran My SUV essay as a double-page spread, for Earth Day!
A Green Winter started out as a blog post, and is now morphing into a book and an animated mini-movie. The book opportunity happened when “A Green Winter” caught the eye of the University of Victoria (via a science news service). It will be published in an anthology of readings for Canadian university students entitled Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, including authors Stephen Lewis, Ken Dryden, David Suzuki, Margaret Atwood and others. Co-edited by Kim Blank and Stephen Eaton Hume, University of Victoria. (Thomson Publishing, Autumn 2007). Another surprising opportunity came along when Denise Donlon, former President of Sony Music Canada spotted my Green Winter essay on Eco-Sherpa and asked me to show it at the Green Living Show. So, I’ve reinterpreted the essay as an animated movie, with music composed by David Gray, Big World Songs (and former band member of the Parachute Club). How cool is that? Very.
My Office-Politics daily blog is a collaborative effort, drawing on the talents of experts in the areas of executive coaching, leadership development, dispute resolution, employment law, PR and ethics to answer letters submitted to the site. The Office-Politics Advisory Board includes authors, Dr. Rick Brandon and Dr. Marty Seldman, Arnie Herz, lawyer, Dr. John Burton, lawyer and ethicist, Peter Garber, author, Timothy Johnson, author, Jennifer Glueck Bezoza, MA, Gregory Ketchum, Christine Comaford-Lynch, author and Erika Andersen, author.
I founded the site in 2002, and it’s going stronger than ever. We’re top-ranked on Google for the search terms ‘office politics’, and our traffic has increased more than fivefold in the past year. I think the increase is due to two factors: Excellent content (of course) and moving to a blog platform to spread the word. Also check out the Office-Politics GameŽ and our Office-Politics animated cartoons. If you have any comments — or want me to visit your blog — send me an email: franke@frankejames.com
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April 24th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
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I just returned from a Blogging conference in Chicago. I’ve been active on the web since 94/95, but I’ve only been blogging since ‘06. This blog thing is different, and powerful, and it’s influence is growing. I wanted to learn more about who these fellow bloggers were. Liz Strauss, the main driver behind the SOBcon event… Read more
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Many thanks to Liz Strauss for creating this wonderful list of outstanding women bloggers.
The W-List: Gathering a List of Outstanding Women Bloggers
45 Things by Anita Bruzzese
Ask Dr. Kirk
The Artsy Asylum by Susan Reynolds
Back in Skinny Jeans by Stephanie Quilao
BlogWrite for CEOs Debbie Weil
Biz Growth News by Krishna De
Brain Based Biz by Dr. Robyn McMaster
Brain Based Business by Dr. Ellen Weber
Brand Sizzle Anne Simons
Branding & Marketing Chris Brown
Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk
Build a Solo Practice, LLC by Susan Cartier Liebel
Christine Kane by Christine Kane
CK’s Blog CK (Christina Kerley)
Communication Overtones Kami Huyse
Conscious Business by Anne Libby
Conversation Agent Valeria Maltoni
Corporate PR Elizabeth Albrycht
Customers Rock! Becky Carroll
CustServ by Meikah David
Creative Curio by Lauren Marie
Debbie Millman by Debbie Millman
Deborah Schultz by Deborah Schultz
Designers Who Blog by Cat Morley
Design Your Writing Life by Lisa Gates
Diva Marketing Blog Toby Bloomberg
Do It Myself Blog by Glenda Watson Hyatt
Dooce by Heather B. Armstrong
Email Marketing Best Practices Tamara Gielen
Enter the Laughter by Marti Lawrence
Escape Blog by Melissa Petri
Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim
eSoup by Sharon Sarmiento
Essential Keystrokes by Char
Every Dot Connects by Connie Reece
Fish Creek House by GP
Flooring The Consumer CB Whittemore
Forrester’s Marketing Blog Shar, Charlene, Chloe, Christine Elana, Laura and Lisa
Franke James by Franke James
Get Fresh Minds by Katie Konrath
Great Presentations Mean Business by Laura Athavale Fitton
Hey Marci by Marci Alboher
Get Shouty by Katie Chatfield
ifelse by Phu Ly
Inspired Business Growth by Wendy Piersall
J.T. O’Donnell Career Insights by J.T. O’Donnell
Joyful, Jubilant Learning by Rosa Say
Kinetic Ideas Wendy Maynard
Learned on Women by Andrea Learned
Lindsay Pollak by Lindsay Polla
Liz Strauss at Successful Blog by Liz Strauss
Lorelle on WordPress by Lorelle VanFossen
Making Life Work for You by April Groves
Manage to Change by Ann Michael
Management Craft by Lisa Haneberg
Marketing Roadmaps Susan Getgood
Moda di Magno by Lori Magno
Modite by Rebecca Thorman
Narrative Assets by Karen Hegman
Presto Vivace Blog Alice Marshall
Productivity Goal by Carolyn Manning
Small Biz Survival by Becky McCray
The Brand Dame by Lyn Chamberlin
Spare Change Nedra Kline Weinreich
Talk It Up Heidi Miller
Tech Kitten by Trisha Miller
The Copywriting Maven Roberta Rosenberg
The Blog Angel by Claire Raikes
The Engaging Brand by Anna Farmery
The Floozy Blog by Kate Coote
The Kiss Business Too by Karin H.
The Origin of Brands Laura Ries
The Parody by Sasha Manuel
The Podcast Sisters by Krishna De, Anna Farmery and Heather Gorringe
Water Cooler Wisdom by Alexandra Levit
Wealth Strategy Secrets by Nicola Cairncross
What’s Next Blog B L Ochman
That’s What She Said by Julie Elgar
Ypulse by Anastasia Goodstein
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September 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
[...] Franke James: "I am an artist, writer and storyteller. My two main blogs are not really typical blogs at all, but they are catching people’s attention, and I hope, contributing to making the world a better place. My Office-Politics daily blog is a collaborative effort, drawing on the talents of experts in the areas of executive coaching, leadership development, dispute resolution, employment law, PR and ethics to answer letters submitted to the site. My Franke James blog — where I write, illustrate and photograph on environmental issues." – Franke James [...]