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When The Smiths Tell You To Ask, You Ask

by Gradon on April 2, 2010 · View Comments

in Marketing,Speaking,blogging,social media,work

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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Today.

by Gradon on March 9, 2010 · View Comments

in Family,Marketing,life,work

26 years ago today, my mother died. Emma Mae Waters was getting out of work at the New Hampshire state mental hospital, where she was a nurse. While on her way to her car, she was abducted by Robert Bruneau, her estranged and abusive husband — my stepfather. Long story short, she didn’t get out [...]

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10 Social Media Women That Deserve a Vanity Fair Article

by Gradon on January 11, 2010 · View Comments

in Brands,Marketing,Twitter,blogging,social media,work

Earlier this week, Vanity Fair put out an article featuring 6 women they deemed “America’s Tweethearts”. Each of these women has garnered a significant audience through Twitter and other social media tools… but the main point the article seemed to stress was that these women were physically attractive (in addition to painting them as more [...]

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Twitter Got Me a Girlfriend, Now It Got Me a Job

by Gradon on February 11, 2009 · View Comments

in Twitter,change,fund raiser,work

When’s the last time you heard a guy give his two-week notice? Over the last several months, I’ve heard countless stories of friends getting laid off. From every industry imaginable. Both of my friends that write DesignBoston with me were let go in the last few weeks (Joyce is on vacation in Aruba, so I [...]

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My iBook Won’t Work… But I Will!

by Gradon on February 4, 2009 · View Comments

in blogging,fund raiser,social media,work

I’ll admit it: I love my iBook. That dinosaur of a laptop is like my little-engine-that-could. It’s over 4 years old. It’s harddrive is small enough that I have to do the what-can-I-delete-what-can-I-save game. It’s not the fastest, or the prettiest. The neck of the power cord has been slowly falling apart for some time. [...]

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