Veteran’s Day 2009 | Honoring James Louis Howell

Reprinting the obituary for my grandfather. Published [...]

Power of Knowledge | WLKF | Bay News 9

Two weeks I did an interview with Dr. Marshall Goodman on his weekly radio show, The Power of Knowledge. We talked about the Lakeland Chamber, and about social media. You can listen here [...]

Power to the People – Lakeland style

I read a lot of blogs and one of those is the Google Blog. I [...]

Lime Street to Open This Afternoon

As I pulled into the Chamber from Lunch, I noticed that the City of Lakeland crew was hard at work putting the finishing touches on what i believe is called the Phase 2 of the Lime Street 2 way project. [...]

150 Ideas

I thought it would be telling for me to practice what I preach. Lead the way even, at least to those around me. That is the reason I decided I wanted to create my on blog. Though there where two reasons [...]

Welcome to AaronJBates.com!

I hope that you find interesting the writing here. My hope is to push myself beyond my traditional boundaries and move into a new era of both my professional and personal worlds. 

I hope [...]