My friend and colleague Shelley and I are taking our two girls to a company “junket” we’ll both be attending next month in southern California. (We’re calling the two of them the MarketingProfs “Web 3.0″ team.) The girls are 9 and 11 and live, respectively, in Texas and Massachusetts. Kinsey Read more »
Me and TomTom—True Love Always
by Ann Handley March 7, 2008 » Add more comments.
Around Christmas, I met TomTom. We’ve been inseparable ever since. TomTom, if you don’t know, is a portable GPS navigation system. It mounts on the car dashboard, and its voice commands guide you to your destination. For someone like me—I get lost finding my way back to the table after Read more »
Is 18 the New 8?
by Ann Handley February 28, 2008 » Add more comments.
In her book released last fall, Deceptively Delicious, Jessica Seinfeld slips chickpeas into her chocolate chip cookies and purees butternut squash into her mac and cheese. The general premise is that kid food is fried and white. But if you can slip in something on the sly—say, cauliflower into mashed Read more »
‘Hey, Pretty Lady!’
by Ann Handley February 20, 2008 » Add more comments.
A few weeks ago, I had some time to kill at Boston’s Logan Airport before a flight to Denver, and eventually to Santa Barbara. I’ve taken the same, lonely trip a dozen times or so, and it’s always a tiring day that reminds me again how profoundly disappointed I am Read more »
How I Invented Blogging
by Ann Handley February 13, 2008 » Add more comments.
The fabulous Toby Bloomberg solicited this from me more than a year ago for a site she was publishing, Blogger Stories. I asked her to let me reprint a modified version here to answer a question I’ve been getting a lot lately, “So how’d you get into blogging, anywho?” Read more »
In-Your-Facebook
by Ann Handley February 7, 2008 » Add more comments.
I got an email from my friend Sharon this morning. She had recently signed up for a Facebook account and had just been “friended” by someone she didn’t know very well. Actually, she didn’t know him at all. She asked something like, “So who is he? Is he a creep? Read more »
4 x 4 Secrets About Me, And Why I’m Uncomfortable Talking About Myself
by Ann Handley February 4, 2008 » Add more comments.
Over the weekend, my friends Peter Kim and BL Ochman independently tagged me “It” in two blog games (called memes). The object of each is for the tagged writer to reveal personal bits about themselves that you wouldn’t know otherwise, and then to tag other blog authors to similarly spill Read more »
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