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What’s coming next?

by erin on 01/25/2009

in General,Social

The other night at dinner, a friend asked how the book was coming and what part I was working on now. I mentioned I was writing about communication and activity and about to start a chapter in our “What’s Next” section of the book. The question started us talking about what IS coming next? Everything [...]

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to consider in the new year

by erin on 12/31/2008

in General,Life

from the blog TheHappinessProject a post about new year’s resolutions and writing up your personal commandments. The author has her 12 for the year but at the end of the post she listed these items out that others had shared. The bolded items are ones I think I will pay special attention to this coming [...]

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sometimes life gets in the way

by erin on 11/03/2008

in General,Life

i have had grandiose plans to blog frequently but then lately lots of things have come up and i keep forgetting. the book writing is in full swing and we are working through how to share the patterns in progress with the community. we have a blog and a wiki set up over on our [...]

On Vacation

by erin on 07/14/2008

in Career,General,Life

So technically I am on vacation until the 1st of August, when the new company officially begins. Of course, this first day was spent being very busy finishing up a photo project for submission tomorrow. Supposedly being on vacation and “getting away”, I found myself checking in frequently to my email, my IM, my facebook [...]

the eight types

by erin on 04/28/2008

in General

Whitney Hess points me to the blog of Tom Fishburne who does these amazingly funny cartoons of corporate life. He has a series that describes the 8 types of creative directors, the 8 types of bad creative critics and the 8 types of brand managers. If you have ever worked with a CD or Brand [...]

obligatory end of year post

by erin on 12/31/2007

in General,Life

it’s the last day of the year and I think I should be reflecting on things from this past year. It was a year of constants and change at the job – lots of expansion of the Platform role and the team. I hired 13 awesome people to the team. The end of the year [...]