2008 | that damn redhead

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Posted by that damn redhead on Dec 31, 2008 in Miscellaneous | 3 comments

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! So it appears I’ve been tagged in a “meme” … which, for the uninitiated, is sort of like those silly “surveys” people post on MySpace, or if you want to go way back, those “getting to know you” things people used to spam you with back when email was relatively novel. Only you do this on your blog, and it doesn’t clog up anybody’s inbox or bulletin stream...

Is there a support group for this? Online, preferably?

Posted by that damn redhead on Dec 12, 2008 in Social Media | 1 comment

My friend Dave Damore pointed out this amazing little site called TweetWasters a couple of minutes ago that I went to out of sheer curiosity. What it does is calculate how much time a person has “wasted” tweeting, based on however many tweets they have. Mine looks like this: Wow. As if I didn’t already know I needed a life, this only reaffirms that notion. However, I must point out these things: 1) They ask if I’ve ever thought about getting a cat. As you can see from my...

It’s worth bragging about.

Posted by that damn redhead on Nov 17, 2008 in Miscellaneous | 2 comments

I am very involved with my local chamber of commerce as an Ambassador and intertwined with it through Fenton Area Toastmasters, which is spearheaded by the Chamber. I’ve also been involved on a smaller scale with the Grand Blanc Chamber and the Genesee Regional Chamber. (As my father’s daughter, I would have to be.) I cannot stress the importance of chambers of commerce not just to small businesses, but to the vitality of communities as a whole. The Fenton Chamber is a tight-knit...

Public Service Announcement: Don’t be a Stuart.

Posted by that damn redhead on Nov 13, 2008 in Geekery, Social Media | 0 comments

Amber over at Altitude Branding has a great post on Twitter etiquette in the same vein as Shannon Paul’s “Don’t Be That Guy” that I mentioned in my previous post, and I can’t express my sentiments enough when people send me DMs that say, “Thanks for following, now click on my junk.” I had to comment for the second time tonight just to share my recent revelation with everybody: I was watching MAD TV the other day and it dawned on me that these...

What my small town dentist can teach us about social media.

Posted by that damn redhead on Nov 13, 2008 in Social Media | 3 comments

Last week I found a surprise in my mailbox. My real mailbox, not email inbox. I know it’s not often in snail mail that we get something that isn’t a bill or waste-of-trees direct mail piece, and I wasn’t expecting a package from anybody, so this flat envelope addressed in Sharpie (complete with a smiley face) piqued my interest, to say the least. Oddly enough, it was from my dentist, Dr. Patricia McGarry, affectionately known in the area as “Dr. Patty.” Dr. Patty...