Thursday, October 23, 2008

I know...it has been FOREVER!

I'm sorry, this has been a long time coming. Life has gotten crazy, but luckily in a really good way. In the last couple months I have been diving into the crazy web of social media and loving it. The first real pull towards the medium was while attending BlogWorld in Vegas in September. The people at the conference were amazing, and found was more intrigued by the side conversations than sessions, although those were great too. Check out my 5 minutes of fame (look about 14 years-old, but rolling with it):



While there I was lucky enough to make friends with James Whatley from London, Matt Singley from LA, and Mark Burstiner from NYC. These guys really made my time there a lot of fun, definitely best Vegas experience yet, plus great new friends. Each of them work within the social media space and have intriguing projects on the horizon. Trumpets!

I feel that once good things start happening it is a domino effect. Through James and twitter I learned about an project called Someone Once Told Me. The project takes photographs of people with sayings that have either been influential in their life or just memorable. People are starting to submit pictures from around the world, and I was the first Bostonian! My saying was from my little, feisty Nana who told me the saying below just before I flew to Thailand for 2-months. She was amazing and I think she would laugh if she saw this picture today. So, here it is:
On a more personal note, have official ended all communication with Mr.J, which I think is the best decision I have ever made in my life. So freeing!! Taking control of my life and finding it is OK to be myself is a pretty awesome change...and things are looking up because of it. That is my deep thought for the moment :p

Ok, promise to be more regular with posting.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

You're really getting around. ;-) Nice to see you taking the social media world by storm. I nominated you for an I Love Your Blog award. Cause, you know, I do. Look at my last post!

Whatley said...

You're going in my RSS reader RIGHT NOW.

...and I can't believe you got your SOTM post up!

Nice work!

;)

X

PS - It's Mark Burstiner ;)

Mariana said...

You taught English in Thailand?! How cool is that! The 'Someone Once Told Me' Project looks really neat.

And the video.. you do look young, but that's a good thing ;) You seem really comfortable in front of the camera!

Matt Singley said...

It was fantastic hanging with you and getting to know you! Best Vegas trip ever! Trumpets!