By Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer Published Sep 30, 2009 at 3:17 PM

There's no way that our state's tourism federation could have seen this coming.  But, it's still funny nonetheless.

The Register has a piece today about how the Wisconsin Tourism Federation finally has changing its name to reduce its affilation with "WTF."

The state-wide lobbying group has taken some good-natured ribbing of late as sites like yourlogomakesmebarf.com have questioned the group's funny to many, but probably slightly offensive to others acronym. 

The Wisconsin Tourism Federation is now the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin.   

 

 

Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer

A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.

He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.

Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.  He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.  

He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.

He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.