Every once in awhile, I come up with a question I wish I could ask Tammy Erickson. Erickson is an expert on generations and writes for the Harvard Business Review. Her latest book is What's Next Gen X?

One question I'd like to ask her is who she thinks gets along with each other better in the workplace - Boomer women or Generation women. Then I'd like her to explain why.

I'd also like to ask her to provide the official definition of Gen X angst. I come across this phrase frequently, and I'd like a scholar to go on record with a precise definition. Ha!

Today, I read Erickson's latest post on HBR and lo and behold, it made my eyes well with tears. The title is The Day I Took My Daughter To Work. Like GenXpert said once, Tammy Erickson gets Gen X.

It reminded me of so many times I've tried to balance it all, including this one day in 2005. My mother was watching my newborn son. I had just started a new job, when she called to tell me she wasn't feeling well. My mom has heart problems and rarely complains so I knew it was serious. Within a 30-minute timeframe I'd driven home, put my mom in an ambulance, dropped my son off at a friend's house and returned to complete the last hour of the day at work. That was a very long hour. Lucky for me, my mom was OK. If she hadn't been, I would have never forgiven myself. I would not handle this situation the same way today.

Today is June 1, and today, my blog officially becomes a multi-author site. This idea could seriously belly flop on me folks, and if it does, well, then, I guess I'll go back to square one. I have many irons in the fire these days, and I no longer have the time to post daily as has been the case for nearly two years.

Bloggers Will Rule The World and Own Advertising
Yesterday, popular career blogger Penelope Trunk wrote a blog post in which she declared bloggers will rule the world. She linked to this 2007 article on Public Relations 101 to support her argument. Moreover, she briefly mentioned the opportunity people have through blogging to build their brand.

Become a Contributor or Guest Poster
If you're interested in becoming a regular contributor who provides Generation X-themed content, please send me an email of interest. If you'd just like to provide a guest post once in awhile, that's cool, too. Just let me know. My email is jenx67[at]cox[dot]net. I can't promise you that you'll rule the world, but I can promise that if you provide exceptional content and if you create a niche within the Generation X theme, you will enhance your brand and you will drive traffic to your blog.

10 Things  19 Things
I'll share in an upcoming post what has been happening in my professional life that has limited my time, but for now, I thought I'd share with you 10 things about this blog you may not know.

1. The majority of the people who read this blog are women
2. They are between 35 and 44 years of age
3. They are highly educated; the majority have graduate degrees
4. Most of them have children
5. Most of them visit my site from home vs. work
6. Their household incomes exceed $100,000
7. Even though most of the people who visit this blog are women, the large majority of those leave comments are men
8. Some of my favorite and most loyal readers are Baby Boomers and Gen Yers
9. My Alexa rank for last 30 days is about 395,000; for the last 90 days it's been about 612,000. If you're someone who puts stock in a low Alexa rank, then you know this is not an easy number to achieve. It can also drop as fast as Depression-era stock, so I've learned not to worry about it too much attention. By comparison Google is ranked #1 and my professional site, which I recently relaunched is around 9 million
10. I've been following my stats on Stat Counter lately, particularly the page load statistic. What I've learned is that about 50 percent of my traffic comes from universities (.edu) and federal governments sites (.gov). Based on the search queries and the posts they visit, I think this site is used as a research tool. That's great, because the posts on this represent a large amount of secondary research about Generation X. It's pretty cool seeing consistent hits from Yale, Harvard, University of Texas and the U.S. Department of Labor, just to name a few.
11. About 50 people receive posts daily via email
12. The highest feed traffic I've recorded is 344 (I wish this were much higher, but I'll take what I can get.)
13. Despite the growth of this blog, the Google Page Rank has never moved beyond 4 out of 10
14. According to Website Outlook, this blog's daily page load is around 1,800 and the site has nearly 22,000 backlinks.
15. Traffic on this site has increased every quarter since I began tracking stats in May 2008
16. 65 percent of the visitors to this site are first-time visitors, making 35 percent returning visitors
17. The bounce rate for this site (how quickly people come and go or "bounce" to another site) is considered very good. Right now it's around 36 percent. Some people actually call that fantastic.
18. Just to make sure we're staying humble, this site has one of the slowest page loads known to mankind - 85 percent slower than most sites. I am working on changing this. It's a simple solution, I just haven't had the time to implement the change yet. Stick with me! I know it's slow and getting slower, but it's temporary.
19. This site has been featured in numerous media outlets including the The Daily Oklahoman; San Francisco Chronicle (online); MSNBC; Huffington Post; Washington Post; ParentDish; The Journal Record and the Tulsa World. After a year of trying, it was finally listed on Alltop. The Lost Ogle, the most popular Oklahoma City blog, links to this blog (thank you, Patrick, you rock the casbah) and last week, this quite curious and quite popular blog linked to it in a post. (I'm not sure it was a compliment or an insult.) Alexa reported about six months ago that 112 sites link to this blog. I think it's probably higher now, but I don't know for sure. Wholinks2Me reports more than 13,000 links via search engines/sites like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Thank you to all the loyal readers of this site! Remember, I'm not going anywhere. You'll know which posts are mine by the byline at the top of each post.

Tomorrow, I will introduce the third contributor to this site, so check back! He provided more inspiration for this blog than he realizes.

Oh, to be in Sydney, Australia June 13.

The Powerhouse Museum's 80s Are Back exhibition continues with When Coreys walked the Earth: the 80s on film.

Here are the 80s films selected as the best of the shoulder-pad era flicks!

AFTER HOURS (1985)
THE LOST BOYS (1987)
BLUE VELVET (1986)
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)
THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980)
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984)
DIE HARD (1988)
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)

What do you think of their list? Have you seen all these films and do you have a favorite among them?

Speaking of films, Oklahoma City's amazing deadCENTER Film Festival is June 9-13. The schedule is out and it looks amazing! (Every film on the schedule has a link to a synopsis.)

I can't even imagine the amount of work it takes to put this festival together. Several people I know have been working on it, and I know it is just going to blow everyone out of the water. I was lucky enough to receive an assignment from Oklahoma Today to write about the festival, and I plan on doing some post-festival coverage about it on Technorati.