Maybe it’s because the onset of the holidays always puts me in something of a melancholy mood, or maybe because I’m again staring down the barrel of six bleak months of winter, but I can’t help but read lolcats these days without glimpsing at something of the heartache of Read more »
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I Suspect Everyone Else Is Smarter, Better-Looking, Taller, Cooler, Cuter, Has Newer and Shinier Objects than I Do (and Is More Modest)
by Ann Handley June 26, 2008 » Add more comments.
When you are prone to measuring yourself against others, like I am, and when you both work and live out chunks of your life online, as I do, the Internet can be a bitch. It’s easy to get caught up in measuring your impact online, and to suspect that your Read more »
New Media as Community Theater—All the World’s a Stage
by Ann Handley April 1, 2008 » Add more comments.
I am a total sucker for community theater, especially musical theater. What I love isn’t so much the corny show tunes or the predictable story lines, but the players’ infectious energy for taking risks. I was reminded of this a few weekends ago when I went to see a local Read more »
What Is a Friend?
by Ann Handley March 16, 2008 » Add more comments.
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 »
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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