Montgomery Community Media

Since 1954, the Department of Recreation (MCR) has remained dedicated to providing inclusive quality recreation programs and activities that serve the recreation and leisure needs of the Montgomery County community. The Department manages 34 facilities including community and neighborhood recreation centers, senior centers, and indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities and provides thousands of programs such […]

Ok, they got me at “hello”, my first ever Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. I must first confess that I work for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) this week at the 2015 show as an Information Assistant and “background” photographer. My posts to this blog are my own opinion and I join in […]

I apologize in advance to anyone who may find this blog to be boring, offensive, off-the-mark, annoying, or even trivial. There. I said it. I’m sorry. Apologies don’t always come that easy and aren’t always that easy to deliver, are they? Then again, the circumstances begging for an apology – especially a public apology at […]

Teambuilding sucks. Leadership development doesn’t work at all. Stupid “games” work teams have to play in teamwork training sessions, and all the platitudes they’re forced to listen to, are nothing more than a way of making consultants rich. Why are we so afraid of honesty? And if everybody thinks it, why can’t we say it? […]

A couple months ago, the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) started a blog entry entitled “My Perspective as the GGCC Intern” with our intern Emily Santini and here is the latest edition. The past couple months Emily has been extremely busy assisting me with event planning. Event planning can be a fun and creative career […]

Back in the fall, many weather prognosticators called for a cold, snowy winter in the mid-Atlantic. Through early January, however, less than an inch of snow had accumulated at Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) Thurgood Marshall Airport. Predicting the weather is a dynamic challenge in this region, even for the experts. That’s why it was so informative […]

Are you looking to develop speaking and leadership skills? Ace a job interview? Ignite your career? Well there is a group that’s been around a while that can help. Find out more, next on Connecting Our Community. Host Karen Allyn discusses Toastmasters with the President of the Kemp Mill Toastmasters. For more information about the […]

As we write our opera story and continue to explore the many sides of failure, we realize that we must find a way to break through the thoughts and feelings that hold us back and keep us from reaching our goals and being who we truly are. Writing poetry gives us an outlet for releasing […]

Happy New Year! 2014 was a great year for the MyMCMedia Facebook page thanks to your support and interest in our daily posts. Our top Facebook posts in 2014 included issues about health, schools and local businesses. Our top five posts, ranked by their total reach on Facebook, are listed, below: 1. Montgomery Parks officials […]

On the eve of New Year’s we thought we would take a look back at the top five blog posts in 2014 on the MyMCMedia website. These are the articles with the most page views. 1. Our number one post was a health warning at Lake Needwood from Montgomery Parks with 41,366 page views. 2. “When […]