Blogging as a career enhancer

Here on my blog I quote the WSJ blog, talking about someone else’s blog:

July 17, 2007, 12:41 pm
Economics Blogger Gets Senior Fed Job
Economics blogging can be good for your career. David Altig, author of the Macroblog has just been named research director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Mr. Altig is currently associate research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and also teaches at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. His blog postings reflect a mainstream Fed view on key macroeconomic questions of the day.

So let’s see: he’s associate director of research of one Fed bank and gets promoted to director at another bank. While I think bloggers tend to be somewhat more interesting people :-), something tells me blogging has little to do with it.

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