(from march 30, 2009… original post without tweaks found here)
i graduated from college, accepted a job at the small internet company i interned with during breaks from school, and got laid off 6 months later. i then accepted a three-month digital communications internship at a public relations agency. i really thought i’d love it – and i was really wrong. after three months of incorrect pay (causing me to hardly make ends meet) and being treated like dirt, i was …

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hire me.
i could give you a hundred reasons to, but here are my top few:

i’m smart

i have great writing skills
i’m a fantastic communicator
i have a bsba in business with a concentration in marketing
i have agency, non-profit, and in-house marketing experience

i’m creative

i live to engage, to communicate and to innovate
i love beautiful things, great design (both online and off) and always strive for the absolute best
i love a challenge, and absolutely love finding ways to conquer them

i’m organized

i dig calendars, to-do …

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all i’ve been reading for the past 9 months or so is “how to succeed on twitter”, “how to get more followers on twitter”, “how to optimize your use of twitter”, enough already.  really.
we all get (well most of us, i hope) that twitter is great, brilliant, and just what we’ve been wanting for a really long time.  most of us (hopefully) get how to use twitter, and by now, we’ve got a pretty good handle on it.
while i am a huge …

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okay, so “personal branding” has become a bit of a buzzphrase these days (hey, that rhymed).  with the economy doing what it’s doing, and jobs becoming more and more scarce, it seems as though “personal branding” has suddenly become this all-important thing.
yes, “thing”.  half the folks that are throwing this little buzzphrase around don’t even know what it is.  a brand is not a logo, it’s not packaging, it’s not a cool nickname – it’s simply a representation (both visual …

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so after some thinking, i’ve come up with (what i think is) a pretty decent idea for this post.
i’ve been using twitter for the past 6 months or so, have 383 (and counting) followers, and follow 524 people.  i have updated 1,539 times.  i’m currently ranked 24,545 out of 1,095,823 people on twitter, and have a score of 97.2 out of 100.
i’m going to be honest, here, before twitter i had no idea who @chrisbrogan was, or@guykawasaki or @jowyang.  i didn’t find them in …

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