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• change, life

  What Hope Looks Like

  11.06.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Have you noticed?
  I have.
  Walking down the street, there’s a lightness in people’s steps. They’re smiling more than they were a week ago.
  America’s high.
  High on hope. High on change.
  On that note, I’d like to share something. My friend and coworker Danielle sent me photos from a rally for Barack Obama that exemplify the hope that we’re [...]

• Twitter, change, life

  Digital New Deal: Now the Real Work Begins

  11.05.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Last night, history happened. America, in an overwhelming gesture of support, voted in Barack Obama as our next President.
  One of the things that struck me as most amazing about his victory was to the degree to which it proved to be our victory.
  It’s been a long time since a candidate united people the way Obama [...]

• change, life

  Yes We Did!

  11.05.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I have way too many thoughts flowing through my head right now. All I can say is, Congratulations, Mr. President-Elect.

• Twitter, blogging, change, fund raiser, life, social media

  Help The Race to 20k

  10.28.08 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  Remember playing telephone as a kid? Social media can be kind of like that.
  Thomas Keown started One Home Many Hopes, a nonprofit organization that is working to improve the lives of girls in Kenya.
  “One Home Many Hopes” is a loving home for orphaned girls in Mtwapa, Kenya. It provides former street children with a nurturing [...]

• life, work

  Michael Douglas Played Me in a Movie. Kind of.

  10.26.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  It’s the late 90s. I was working at Verizon (then Bell Atlantic) in a 700-person customer service center.  One day, as with the thousands of calls I took in the two years I spent there, I answer a call with the standard greeting that I can recall to this day: “Thank you for calling the [...]

• Family, life

  My Dad, the Moose Hunter

  10.21.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  My parents live in Florida, so we don’t see them very often. As a present for his 70th birthday, my brother-in-law took my father to Newfoundland on a moose hunting trip. Successful after just a few days, they returned to my sister and brother-in-law’s house Petersham. (For comparison, Petersham has a population of 1,180, less [...]

• Twitter, blogging, life, social media

  Twitter Helped Me Steal Canada’s Greatest Natural Resource

  10.16.08 | Permalink | 43 Comments

  Say hi to Meg
  Meg and I should have never met.
  Meg lives in Vancouver; the farthest west I’ve ever been is Tennessee. She’s a freelance writer; I schlep to work at a pharmaceutical publishing company every day - no chance we’d ever meet at an industry conference or something like that. The likelihood we’d ever be [...]

• Twitter, blogging, change, fund raiser, life, social media

  Social Media Fund Raiser - Where and When!

  07.23.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  It’s been twelve days since I’ve brought up the idea of a Social Media Fund Raiser. That time’s been spent trying to figure out things like how many people will come, how long the event should be, and what is going to be served. Oh, and when it will all take place.
  I have some answers. [...]

• Twitter, blogging, change, fund raiser, life, social media

  Let’s Have a Social Media Fund Raiser!

  07.11.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  A couple weeks ago, someone presented the idea of a Tweetup at Radius, a high-end restaurant and lounge in Boston’s Financial District (I run the valet operations there.)
  What a great idea, I figured. If there was ever a way to draw my social media friends from New York (hello, Matt?) up to Boston, a restaurant [...]

• blogging, life, social media

  Is the “Personal Brand” a myth?

  07.08.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  Recently, a well known video blogger, made famous by his use of sock puppets to try and knock a couple social media stars off their pedestals, got a job producing a video blog on a major tech news site.
  Everything I know about him I know from his site and from the various tech blogs that [...]

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