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What People Are Saying About Our Blog
"When it comes to policy blogging inside the Beltway, the National Association of Manufacturers is the leader of the pack."
-- K. Daniel Glover's Beltway Blogroll, November 8, 2005.
"History will reveal you to be a colossal buffoon, I am sorry to say."
--Jason Varone, random blog reader & commentor, April 13, 2006.
"NAM "blogger-in-chief" Pat Cleary has been a blog evangelist within his industry and to lobbyists in Washington."
--National Journal, January 21, 2006.
"The Shop Floor is a business blog and it seems clear that the person writing the entries is Satan."
--fellow blogger Jake Jacobsen, May 26, 2005
"Concise, informal, and has a well defined voice of aggressive advocacy on behalf of the organization's members."
--Kevin Holland, Association Management Magazine, May 2005.
"Their pathetic blog is an expression of the corporate supremacists."
--Lou Dobbs, August 1, 2005.
"Best Association-Sponsored Blog"
--Association Inc. December 20, 2005.
"You are a bonehead. You should start considering that fact."
--fellow blogger 'Rebecca' from comments, May 31, 2005
"[T]he person behind the blog, NAM senior vice president Pat Cleary, is funny, affable and at least mildly irreverent."
--John Cochran, CQ, March 10, 2005
"Will Rogers never met Pat Cleary."
--Blogger's Apprentice.
"Shopfloor is one of the few association blogs that captures the essentials of the blogging spirit -- a personal voice, a loose tone and humor."
--David Sifry, founder of Technorati, CQ, March 10, 2006
"Do you ever get tired of being wrong all the time?."
--unknown commentor on the blog, 7/15/06.
"While associations, trade organizations, nonprofits and NGOs have been reluctant to embrace emerging online technology -- in fact, it generally runs counter to their culture -- the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is an exception and a success story."
--David Henderson, Public Relations Society of America, June, 2006
"Pat Cleary is a well known "non thinker". It's a pity, but one day he may see the light. I really hope so - not to credit Al Gore or anyone like that, but for the sake of our manufacturers and economy at large!"
--blog commentator "Lionel," 10/3/06.
"The folks at the National Association of Manufacturers have a series of posts on how things are made, along with video and photos from the shop floor. Given how divorced most people are from the process of actually making things these days, I think this is very cool."
--Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, September, 2006
"It's like a car wreck. You just have to look."
--Dragon Die Mold Joe, November, 2006
"The National Association of Manufacturers in Washington is considered by many political insiders to be at the leading edge of electronics communications, using the medium to involve members, influence legislators and spread its message. NAM also has been an innovator in the use of blogs to counteract information that it says is inaccurate and to reach a higher- tech audience than it could with letters to the editor, for example."
--Craig Webb, Plastics News, September 25, 2006
"Not only does NAM blog, it does so very effectively. What makes shopfloor.org work is that it is written by real live human beings who have opinions. Sure, some people aren't going to agree with NAM's point of view. But regardless of your politics you have to respect NAM's willingness to participate in the conversation online. What they are doing is extradinary for a DC-based trade association."
--Todd Ziegler, The Bivings Report, October, 2006
"[S]ome of the most successful associations blogs, such as the oft-cited Shopflooor blog at the National Association of Manufacturers, work largely because they do things the typical association isn't willing to do."
--Craig Webb, Associations Now, November, 2006
"Who knew that the National Association of Manufacturers would have such a fast-moving New Media presence? And now I see that they also have "Dobbs Watch," a cool feature, full of smart 'n' snarky commentary. That's what TCG aspires to be when it grows up--smart and snarky!"
--The Cable Gamer blog, December, 2006
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