February 2010
What’s the best flavor of Axe Shower Gel? I need new soap.
The best flavor of Axe is Old Spice.
I’m on a horse.
Will Reblogging Work Better Then Emailing?
MEAGHAN! CHECK YOUR EMAIL! I WANT TO TALK TO TUMBLR AS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR A PRETTY BIG FASHION BRAND! S’UP!
Dear Julie,
I’ll be on ChatRoulette at 1pm EST.
Come find me!
:D
M
Julie might not have gotten the conversation she wanted, but I bet she has more followers now than she did yesterday.
Meaghan and I are emailing now! Alas I really don’t know that I want more followers so oops as this is just a personal dumping ground for reblogs and mostly for following other Tumblrs versus tumbling my own stuff. My internet fame days are over thanks! Girlfriend done sold out and moved on. I work on the inside now!
Will Reblogging Work Better Then Emailing?
I have found that sometimes @Tweeting someone you need to reach is more effective than email. I am wondering if Reblogging will work in a similar manner. I have been trying to get a response from Meaghan via email since last Wednesday to no avail regarding a corporate Tumblr. I even went to the Tumblr event on Friday but couldn’t find a reasonable moment at the event to talk to someone from Tumblr about my needs since it was clearly a packed and popular event.
Perhaps a reblog will work! HEY MEAGHAN! CHECK YOUR EMAIL! I WANT TO TALK TO TUMBLR AS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR A PRETTY BIG FASHION BRAND! S’UP!
Ohh digital. This might be why big brands find the digital space unappealing. It takes someone in the native environment to get through to anyone. Thus your digital managers actually have to be twentysomethings in order to navigate digital partnerships. Because if phone calls didn’t work before now emails don’t work meaning you have to resort to any number of other attention grabbing tactics. And does anyone expect a busy executive to take the time to pester potential companies about partnerships via Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook message? I’ve got my doubts.
Dear Julie,
I’ll be on ChatRoulette at 1pm EST.
Come find me!
:D
M
OMG LOL CLEVEREST RESPONSE EVER! LOVE! CHUCKLING LIKE MAD. However fairly confident that working inside a corporate wirewall means ChatRoulette is totally banned.
Will Reblogging Work Better Then Emailing?
gahahaha Tumblr people irl. Meaghan O’Connell is so much taller in writing (a joke about how she is tiny, folks.)
People always say this. I am going to put my height in my blog header.
I have found that sometimes @Tweeting someone you need to reach is more effective than email. I am wondering if Reblogging will work in a similar manner. I have been trying to get a response from Meaghan via email since last Wednesday to no avail regarding a corporate Tumblr. I even went to the Tumblr event on Friday but couldn’t find a reasonable moment at the event to talk to someone from Tumblr about my needs since it was clearly a packed and popular event.
Perhaps a reblog will work! HEY MEAGHAN! CHECK YOUR EMAIL! I WANT TO TALK TO TUMBLR AS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR A PRETTY BIG FASHION BRAND! S’UP!
Ohh digital. This might be why big brands find the digital space unappealing. It takes someone in the native environment to get through to anyone. Thus your digital managers actually have to be twentysomethings in order to navigate digital partnerships. Because if phone calls didn’t work before now emails don’t work meaning you have to resort to any number of other attention grabbing tactics. And does anyone expect a busy executive to take the time to pester potential companies about partnerships via Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook message? I’ve got my doubts.
UPDATE: Yes reblogging works like @Tweeting used to work. Thanks Meaghan! Excited to talk more with Tumblr.
“I’m well versed enough in social networking to know better than to list that among my professional skills.”
—One of the more insightful things I’ve seen on a CV recently (via ninety9)
Relevancy?
“It truly is ‘Gossip from Manhattan and the Beltway to Hollywood and the Valley’ — just the way I like it!”
Rubber Duckie
Kelly Hogan
Kelly Hogan sings Rubber Duckie. And I mean sings — in a way Ernie never did. In fact, her performance puts this song in a whole new light.
“All right y’all … let’s get wet!”
In Praise Of Online Obscurity →
wired.com
The very definition of mediated that something is presented through media. It’s like saying that people are breathing in a way that lets them inhale oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.
No, you’re right — my word choice there was wrong. I meant more in a “crafted persona” sort of way, with people holding up some sort of refractory device in front of their selves — sometimes as a way to cultivate community, even. I’ve just been thinking a lot about the divide between my online self and my “real” self — it’s been, what, 17 years since I put up my first Web site? Despite that long stretch of time passing, I don’t think the two have collapsed into one, although I do wonder lately if the former has taken over more of my life than I’m comfortable with.
My online self and my real self divide has grow progressively wider since I sold Coutorture aka my original “crafted persona” and “sometimes way to cultivate community.” This makes the inevitable Googling of me something I dread. Because I don’t look like, act like or even think like the mediated online presence of me that makes up the bulk of the results.
“But now the people who know how to do things properly, with a three-dimensional feeling, are not really around anymore. It’s all about measurements. The balance of a garment, the human piece of it, is lost. I’m convinced that’s why there is stretch in everything. We used to make garments that fit beautifully without stretch. I don’t even think the technical designers can replace pattern makers—and most of them couldn’t make a pattern to save their soul. They’re looking at the garment from a presentation-at-the-store level, not how it fits the person.”
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Possibly the best piece I’ve ever seen out of Cathy Horyn and she didn’t really write it.
If you have a real interest in pattern making I highly suggest reading an old colleague of mine’s incredible blog
The Hardest Job In The World
Thankfully the good ones get to move on to other things. Ask me about my new gig on Monday. :-)
“I did break up with them before they broke up with me. I liked having an $80,000-a-year job with benefits and a nice office and a title, but on the other hand, blogging’s one of the hardest things that anyone can do. I mean, the kind of blogging that I did for three years, of writing news and opinion — in real time — eight to fourteen posts a day or whatever it was, nobody who hasn’t done it can imagine how hard it is.”
- Friend (and former colleague) of MOP Josh Ozersky in the Village Voice
Addressing the Dearth of Female Entrepreneurs →
msnbc.msn.com
caro:
Loving this BusinessWeek piece by Vivek Wadhwa. Some choice bits:
I’ll bet that if Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs had even one woman on his executive team, the iPad would have been given a different name. Otherwise why would Apple give its new device a name half of the population equates with feminine hygiene?
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Women-led high-tech startups generate higher revenues per dollar of invested capital and have lower failure rates than those led by men, her research shows. Women are also more capital-efficient; the average venture-backed tech company run by a woman was started with one-third less committed capital than those led by men, yet achieved comparable early revenue levels.
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No woman has ever been CEO of a Wall Street firm.
