I form first impressions very fast, and since I make a lot of friends through Twitter I’ve figured out some different ways of evaluating their profile to make some generalizations about who they talk to, how engaged they are with people, and what they’re interested in. It’s much faster to Continue Reading
I just signed up for Crowdspring and look what they gave me: What is Crowdspring A place where creatives can sell their work for spec and buyers can submit a creative brief and quickly get a whole bunch of submissions to choose from.
Warning: bit of a rant. I just opened my weekly email from Biznik, letting me know about business events in my neck of the woods, and was confronted with this: What’s the problem with this? Well, for one the use of “Any social media expert” kind of baffles me — Continue Reading
Last night I stopped by the Valleywag mixer, which was geared towards PR and Media types, at Apartment 24. I was curious to meet Owen Thomas, and understand what he was trying to accomplish by bringing together flaks for a no-host bar (heh). If you don’t know, Valleywag is the Continue Reading
I was screwing around on Compete.com tonight, looking at the traffic of some of my favorite websites, and thought “oh yeah – I should look at Twitter”. As those of you familiar with Twitter know, there are TONS of ways to update the 140 character communication service without actually visiting Continue Reading
I started out at Startup Weekend feeling very non-committal about everything. Would I be in town on Sunday for the presentations? Did I have the energy or motivation to get something done over the weekend? On Friday night, I didn’t know. After the ideas were pitched I talked to a Continue Reading
I heard it’s snowing a bit back at home (again!). I love this song, it captures a sort of restful melancholy that I feel as I reflect on where I’ll be living and what I’ll be leaving behind when I leave Seattle. Take a listen here: http://www.ilike.com/artist/David+Gray/track/Disappearing+World DISAPPEARING WORLD Slowly Continue Reading
I’m so proud of my husband, he’s finally quit his job at Microsoft and is already looking for new opportunities from Beijing. He’ll be back in the U.S. in late April and then the job search will become full blown. I can’t relate to what it is like to leave Continue Reading
Let’s face it, I’m on Twitter a lot. Between @DanielleMORRILL, @RafetheDog, @Twilio, and @Seattle20 I’ve got my hands full. You might think, because I’m on Twitter constantly, that I use a ton of tools. I’ve tried a lot, but only a handful of truly useful things have stuck. Tweetdeck A Continue Reading
TIA Daily tipped me off to a column by Caroline Baum at Bloomberg, which opens with the provocative sentence: “somewhere John Galt is smilingâ€. Baum points out that the portion of Atlas Shrugged where the businessmen of the world walk away from their enterprises is still fiction — for now Continue Reading