Archive for the 'Word of Mouth' Category

Obligatory Mockingjay post!

Like every other rabid reader in America who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past two years, I stalked my UPS guy until I had my brand spanking new copy of Mockingjay in my hot little hands.
Mockingjay, for the uninitiated, is the third and final book in the distopian young adult series [...]

YOU’RE WELCOME: Discounted Tickets to Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband”

Do you love Oscar Wilde? Of course you do. Otherwise I’d hate you. And I don’t hate you; I love you like the fluffy bit of nougat you undoubtedly are.
So why don’t you go ahead and treat your darling self to one or a dozen discounted tickets to see a rollicking performance of An [...]

A Tracking Project for 2010

I’m pathetically late in checking in to this blog after the holiday but whattayagonna do? I would say it’s my New Year’s resolution to blog more regularly, but I think we all know what sort of lie that would be: bald-faced and blatant.
So here is my ideas for a little personal project in the [...]

You didn’t charge me enough

I don’t know what is wrong with me. I’m obviously the biggest sucker in the world.
I just e-mailed a company to ask them if maybe they had charged me too little money.
My coworkers and friends know I’ve been babbling about how nice Alice.com is for people who live in the city and like [...]

Word of Mouth: home cooking

Sometimes I like to cook. Perhaps you’d like to hear about it?
This doesn’t have much to do with professional life, except that eating right and staying in good health is sort of important if you want to actually get your work done. So, there.
I know a lot of people who are scared of cooking [...]

I guess I have an opinion on Letterman

I didn’t think I did; I haven’t watched late night TV in years. But the sudden brouhaha about his confession of affairs and subsequent blackmail attempts prompted me to write this quick blog post at the PRBC site.

Bookish things: The Hunger Games

Super quick, I wanted to tell you about The Hunger Games, a book I finished in one sitting last weekend on the bus ride from Boston. Like I’ve said before, I’m not so good at reviewing books as I am about gushing when I love them. So be prepared for some gushing!
This book does not [...]

Continuing a conversation on customer service

The other night the #prbc tweeps and I had the pleasure of taking over #12for12k’s Twitter stream for an hour. If you’d like to donate to their drive for Doctors Without Borders, by the way, you should.
Anyhoo, Danny Brown and I were chatting and– Well, I’ll just show you, I guess.

I hate to beat [...]

Still Uncategorized

ow was camping, you ask? It was pretty great! I love ponds and campfires and grilling and nature and hikes. Those are all good times. I just wanted to share the coolest thing ever with you, super quick.
While walking around in the woods, my friends and I saw these plants. Aren’t they funky? Rosie, [...]

A Guy Who’s Doing it Right

I see a lot of people doing it wrong. Chris Brogan is doing it right.
It’s hard to get people to buy a book. Books cost money to get in hand, and they cost time to read. Plus there’s always a chance that it turns out badly, and you end up snapping it shut with the [...]