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Pot, Kettle, Black
| Kurt Greenbaum is the director of social media for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In a recent post, he mentioned how he’d been pro-active at contacting the employers of someone who left a vulgar comment on a blog post. The person in question resigned.The flak started flying in in the subsequent comments, and Greenbaum refuted he stepped over-the-mark, maintaining that the comment had been vulgar.Hmm… pot, kettle, black, anyone? Or is it okay to be abusive yourself about an “abuser” whose job you played a part in taking away..? |
Hollow Victories
We’ve been brainwashed into thinking the materialistic matters, but without those that matter to share with the materialistic is hollow.
Do we really need to send that final email? Make that last phone call before calling it a night?
There will always be jobs for those that want to work. It may not be the jobs that we want, but they will be there. Loved ones… not so much.
Don’t let your victories be hollow.
Tick Tock
Tick tock. The sound of a clock. The sound of watching the minutes go by. The sound of boredom. The sound of anywhere but here.
Silence. The sound of creativity at work. The sound of not really feeling like a job. The sound of expressing yourself. The sound of making things happen the way you want them to. The sound of success.
You’re not encouraging clock watching, are you?
Have Your Say
So there are a few new changes/tweaks/additions (delete where applicable) coming to this blog soon, and I’d love your help to decide on how it pans out. After all, you guys are the real stars around here – I just offer somewhere to hang.
The first change I’m thinking about is the design. I’m tempted to go for either a fairly minimalistic look – think something akin to Posterous – or a more magazine feel like this one.
I’ll still be using the Headway theme to make it customized to how I’d like it, I’m just not sure which way to go. Thoughts?
Secondly, I’m starting a new interview series on video using wetoku. This lets you have a split-screen chat on video which viewers can watch live then, once the chat is over, the video can be embedded directly onto your blog or website. I think it’s a really cool little app and one that could take blogging into a whole new sphere.
And I’d like you to choose the guests.
Let me know who you’d love to see, and why. Pretty much anyone in the social media, marketing, digital space, PR field or similar – I’ll do my best to get them on. I’m not promising I’ll be successful – I don’t hold that much sway – but I am stubborn if nothing else!
So, a couple of changes, and I’d love for you to help me one way or another, if that’s okay with you?
Leave your suggestions for either option – blog theme or wetoku – in the comments and I’ll take it from there. Cheers!
- Update October 25 – Going by comments on here and Twitter, it looks like minimal design is preferred – so, this is the new look that you’re seeing now. Thanks for your thoughts!
Note: This blog no longer runs on the Headway framework. Instead, it’s a custom WordPress design by Lisa Kalandjian of SceneStealer Graphics.
