Miscellaneous

Idol needs Simon, Dancing needs Len, and we need people like them.

Posted by that damn redhead on Apr 27, 2010 in Miscellaneous | 2 comments

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting![OK, yes, I know I just put up a post saying I was going into an official "blogging hiatus," but this just came out last night and you SAID you wanted to read "whatever was on my mind." So here ya go. /tdr] As a rule, I generally don’t watch TV, and when I do, it’s usually not a reality show. The only season of American Idol I’ve ever watched was Season 6 and that was only because LaKisha Jones...

The Best of the Red: Dust Bunny Edition

Posted by that damn redhead on Jan 25, 2010 in Blogging, Miscellaneous, Writing | 2 comments

While doing some recent housekeeping in the back end of this site I uncovered some posts in my archives that many (read: most) of you missed, and I thought they were worthy of having the dust bunnies brushed off them. I realize that the majority of you are newer readers and/or haven’t known me as long, so here are a few of that damn redhead you’ve likely never read: What my small town dentist can teach us about social media The internet is one big expo – what is your booth...

Be careful whom you “unfriend”

Posted by that damn redhead on Jan 15, 2010 in Miscellaneous | 9 comments

Something happened earlier that made me almost feel bad for somebody. Almost. By now we know that “unfriend” was the official word of 2009. (I’m going to just set my Grammar Goddess cringing aside and go with it for this post.) I’m in the process of (re)developing a brand for a client of mine, and while I know a lot of people in various disciplines of web design, graphic design, or any other kind of design in between, I had a certain former colleague in mind whom I knew...

Real Men of Genius: Social Media edition

Posted by that damn redhead on Oct 11, 2009 in Funny, Miscellaneous, Social Media | 4 comments

(Real men of genius!) Tonight, I salute YOU, Mr. “I-Sync-My-Twitter-and-Facebook-Accounts”! (Mr. I-Sync-My-Twitter-and-Facebook-Status!) Yes, you sir, are oblivious that your Facebook friends really don’t care about your every move & your Twitter followers are a) mostly the same people, and b) annoyed as hell. (Absolutely, completely oblivious!) It’s imperative that you tell EVERYONE POSSIBLE about that ham sandwich you had for lunch, or that you are happy...

WANTED: Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed interns to rock international PR/SM space.

Posted by that damn redhead on Sep 14, 2009 in Miscellaneous | 4 comments

Since I took this new job at the chamber, it’s no secret that I’m exhausted all the time. There just aren’t enough hours in the day for me to do everything I want and need to do. And it sucks. Aside from working full-time in Detroit, I also have a couple of my own clients. I knew it was going to be tough to juggle my own business and work for The Man, but I had no idea it was going to be this tough. I love my clients too much to give them up, and it’s killing me that I...

The stuff I can’t go without reading every day.

Posted by that damn redhead on Jul 28, 2009 in Geekery, Miscellaneous | 12 comments

The other day I did something long overdue — I pruned through my RSS feeds and hit “mark all as read.” To you this may not seem like a big deal but to me it felt so liberating — like the geek girl’s equivalent of burning her bra. For weeks I knew I was falling behind on reading all my RSS subscriptions; it got to the point that I was actually afraid of opening up my RSS reader of choice because I knew it would asplode. Now I’m starting over at Square One...