Renting an apartment seems to be a pretty straightforward service business: space for money. Of course, anyone that’s ever rented to or from someone knows it’s not as simple as that. Whether it’s a maintenance issue, or a noisy party, or an impending home improvement project, there’s a need for additional communication between landlord and [...]
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by Gradon on April 2, 2010 · 2 comments
Have you ever experienced the dramatic effect of the right song playing at just the right point? Something like that happened to me yesterday afternoon. I had a conversation with a friend I know through social media about an available position at their company. One of the first things (s)he said was, “I had no [...]
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by Gradon on March 30, 2010 · 15 comments
The overly-long title for this post comes from two posts that I read recently. They both relate to the degrees to which we edit ourselves in the social media world, and they got me thinking about how I do or don’t edit myself. Justin Kownacki wrote about how, afraid to offend anyone, we censor ourselves, [...]
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Yesterday, Tyson Goodridge reached out to me. He’d double-booked himself and asked if I could cover for him at the Boston University PRSSA’s social media contest. It turns out Tyson asked several people, so both Jeff Cutler and I showed up in his place. No worries, BU PPRSA Vice President Eric Leist had another chair [...]
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by Gradon on March 8, 2010 · 4 comments
Recently, I had two interactions with two different homeless people, with two very different results. For the sake of demonstration, let’s start with the more recent event first. This afternoon, I’m standing by the Boylston T stop in Boston Common, waiting for a friend to meet me for lunch. While waiting, I start reading one [...]
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by Gradon on January 20, 2010 · 16 comments
If there’s any single benefit of what Chris Brogan offers to the social media world at large (and let me say, there are many), it’s that he makes you think. Recently, after prodding from Robert Scoble, Chris created a second Twitter account. The guise of @broganmedia (that’s the first tweet, above) was to share a “more pure [...]
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Gradon Tripp is a Boston-based social media, technology and design aficionado that fully immerses himself in the world of social media. He is the founder of DesignBoston.org, the largest Boston-based architecture and design blog, and co-founder of Social Media for Social Change, an organization that helps non-profits use the tools of social media to further their causes.
Gradon works as a freelance social media and content strategist. He blogs here about social media and marketing for a variety of industries, and the thoughts here are his (not those of his employers, clients, friends or family).
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