Today’s #FollowFriday is a new addition to the Spin Sucks community. Rob Biesenbach has been hanging out in the comments for a few months now and just wrote his first guest post about storytelling last week. In the post, he talked about how he learned to tell a story through writing from Second City. Improv Helps Storytelling This is both intriguing and terrifying to me. The ... Read More

A little more than two years ago, I was invited to speak at PodCamp in Toronto, and it was my first foray into the country of some of my favorite people. Eden Spodek extended that invitation and I had the opportunity to meet her in person. From there, we saw one another again last year when I spoke at Third Tuesday and SocialMix, and then again ... Read More

It’s Friday already, which means you get to meet another member of our community. I first met Paula Kiger on Twitter as Big Green Pen (turns out, that’s her favorite color pen to use). We’ve been chatting there for a while, but she’s a recent addition to the Spin Sucks community. In fact, she’s one of the few who follows the rules on The Three Things ... Read More

A little more than a year ago, I met the one and only Brian Tudor. He attended SocialSlam when I keynoted, introduced himself, and we became fast friends. In fact, he hired us last summer when he was the senior Internet marketing manager for LasikPlus and we had a grand old time working together until he left for InteractOne as their vice president of Internet marketing ... Read More

I’ve been holding on to this one for a long time because I wanted to wait until her birthday. Happy Birthday, Aimee West! For those of you who don’t know Aimee, allow me to introduce you. She began her career as a printer and then became pretty adept at creating and designing websites. But when social media hit the scene, she dug in to learn some ... Read More

If you spend any times in the comments here (with the crazies), you already know Joe Cardillo. He’s become a permanent part of the community and was welcomed with open arms. He’s smart, he’s witty, and he’s obsessed with Big Data, which makes him definitely a friend of mine. I learned something new about him today as I wrote this. He no longer works for PR ... Read More

At the now infamous Social Slam, where I keynoted last year, I met one Ms. Liz Reusswig in the lobby of the hotel. Our fate was sealed from that moment on. A communicator and marketer by heart, she not only runs a boutique agency focusing on those services for clients, she founded Kids Theatre News. Which makes total sense. If you missed her daughters performing in ... Read More

If you saw last week’s #FollowFriday, which Chuck Kent produced while I was still on vacation, you’ll know precisely why he’s today’s recommendation. I met Chuck first online – either here on the blog or on Twitter – and then when I spoke at the Orbit Media Wine and Web event in December. From there, our friendship was sealed and we keep finding ways to work ... Read More