About the San Diego Beat
Welcome to The San Diego Beat!
This site is for anyone living in or visiting San Diego county, from Camp Pendleton to the Mexican border.
San Diego is so exciting and diverse, with our beautiful beaches, bounty of attractions, our sports teams, local politics, conventions and festivals, there’s no end to the happenings around the county.
This site is for you, so I want to hear your ideas. Please let me know what you love (or hate) about San Diego. If you have a topic that you think I should cover, I want to hear about it, and I’ll bet others do too. If you have photos of San Diego that you’d like to share, I’d love to add them to the site for everyone to enjoy. If there’s information about San Diego that you have trouble finding, or wish were available, let me put my extensive research background to work for you. I’ll do my very best to track it down, and make it available to everyone.
Please help make this the kind of site that you can really use and enjoy. If you live anywhere in San Diego county, or wish you did, the San Diego Beat is for you.
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About Carole A. Lane
Hi! I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Carole Lane, and I’m the host of The San Diego Beat.
I absolutely love San Diego, or most of it. But my path to becoming a San Diego blogger was not exactly linear, and like most things in my life, serendipity played a large part. I was a Systems Analyst for over a decade before starting my own research firm. It wasn’t long before I realized that, since nearly all research is proprietary, I’d need to find some way to prove my expertise to the world. Two options are generally open to researchers – public speaking and writing articles. I did both. After a few articles, and many speaking engagements, I found that I had a viable idea for a book, so I wrote Naked in Cyberspace: How to Find Personal Information Online, primarily as a way to promote my business. As chance would have it, that was 1997, and the world just discovered the web. Before the book was even on bookstore shelves, I was appearing on Good Morning America, and testifying before the Federal Trade Commission!
During the next few years, Naked took over my life, with many tv and radio appearances, and an online site with ongoing updates (a precursor to blogging). (You can see my whole press kit if you want more about that.) I eventually closed down my research firm, and started growing another baby (our second) while I worked on the second edition of the book.
Over the next couple of years, I was busy taking care of my family and home, but I did write an article now and then, and worked with a partner on a column that nearly got a syndication deal a couple of times. I wrote a sidebar to Find It Online for Alan Schlein, and when he received a grant from the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation to rewrite Plugged In: Using the Internet for High School (and Professional) Journalism, he asked me to write that with him and two other writers. (It came out in 2005.)
In 2006, I stated blogging and got hooked. On my short list of things I hoped to blog about, I searched for a network looking for a San Diego blogger. When Jon Symons started Home Turf Media, I applied as the host for San Diego, and that’s how The San Diego Beat started, in January of 2007. This blog was later purchased by b5Media, which is how I arrived here.
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