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Michael S. Greenly () is an American writer, entrepreneur, and lyricist – and a former vice president of Avon Products—who helped to popularize interactive online journalism in the mid-1980s as a kind of forerunner to blogging.〔Elmer-Dewitt, Philip. ("Here Come the Networkers." ) ''Time Magazine''. April 18, 2005.〕 On March 26, 2015, Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed Senate Bill # 1362 making “Our Great Virginia” – lyrics by Mike Greenly, arranged by Jim Papoulis – as the official traditional state song of Virginia.〔("Here Come the Networkers." ) ''Virginia Legislative Information System''. March 26, 2015.〕 ==Early online journalist== In 1983, Greenly left his position as a marketing vice president of Avon Products to become a freelance marketing consultant and writer. In an article for The Futurist magazine (March–April, 1987), Greenly credited the Alvin Toffler book, ''The Third Wave'', as being a catalyst in his decision to change his life and become an active part of the Information Age. Greenly has been called "probably the most widely read writer on The Source", one of the first online services oriented to the general public and attracting 60,000 subscribers at the time.〔 Sometimes called "planet earth’s first interactive journalist"〔("Electronic organization and expert networks: beyond electronic mail and computer conferencing" ) March 18, 1987.〕 Greenly and the two friends he met online – Sherwin Levinson and Diane Worthington – became the first journalists ever allowed to cover the Democratic and Republican political conventions via computer (in 1984). Greenly wrote a cover story for Portable 100/200 magazine (April, 1985) about using an early laptop computer to create this interactive, online journalism from the convention sites (Houston and San Francisco) and to answer reader questions and comments during the process. Greenly went on to become the first journalist ever allowed to cover the Academy Awards ceremony by computer, again sending online reports of his interviews and experiences to readers around the world via laptop, and responding to them from on the road. In 1986, a series of first-hand interviews Mike conducted about AIDS and placed online was published as ''Chronicle: The Human Side of AIDS'' (Irvington Publishers, Inc.). In 1987, Greenly received an award from the Computer Press Association in the category of "Best On-Line Publication" for his interactive electronic coverage of ''Appleworld'', Macworld Conference & Expo, and Comdex '87.〔(“1985 Computer Press Association Awards ) May 1986.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Greenly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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