I can’t believe social media and other methods of communication have played such a large role in making my birthday extra special this year..Here are my birthday feed stats. I am looking to up the ante even more by doing a post!
As of 5:16 p.m.:
Facebook - 44 wall posts on FB, 9 FB messages, 1 new FB friend with the same birthday as me
Phone - 3 texts (one where I called the person out for forgetting), 4 messages, 3 live chats
Email - 6 emails
E-cards - 4
Instant Messages - 3
Traditional cards - 2
Flower bouquets - 2
Balloons - 1 bunch
Tiara (plastic) - 1
Thank you to all of you who remembered and to those of you who were reminded by FB. This has been a stellar year, and, well…My birthday is like Hanukkah (8 days) and I will celebrate till Sunday!
I have been listening to Stew and Colleen in the morning…Primarily because I am a HUGE disco fan and they seem to play a lot of Donna Summer in the AM. I have noticed, and I don’t know if it is the case on all the Standard Radio stations, that they are playing the song from the old Raisin Bran commercial. Do you think Kelloggs’ ad agency sat around thinking of a new way to talk about the two scoops and couldn’t think of anything? Retro is always a good leg to fall back on and I remember this commercial…Am I in the bran eaters target market? Who knows? But I am happy to see Danny…I wonder if Mikey will come back to LIFE? Will Danny go on a media tour? That would be an awesome media relations campaign…
My posts have been few and far between since Januaryand I am not the only one...Not that I posted that often before…But I have been exploring other social media outlets. By that I don’t mean Second Life or Digg or anything truely geek chic, it’s Facebook that has caught my fancy and I admit I am addicted.
Myspace was the first social networking site to really take off amongst my peers but I didn’t jump on the bandwagon. Along comes Facebook and it is the talk of the town. No fancy backgrounds, top eights, music or frills, Facebook is easy-to-use and it is catching on like wildfire. Eight weeks in and I have more than 100 friends (all people I know) tons of networks and more. It’s so easy to use there are social media neophytes in my office signing up and logging on.
There is a great analysis from a marketing perspective here so I won’t bother trying to add my two cents. One thing I will say is that it took me WAY less time to figure out how to upload video and photos than wordpress.
I went to the Scissor Sisters concert last night which rocked. The crowd was a mix of the most metro-gay-homo-queer-dykely-trans-iest I’ve ever seen - both filthy and gorgeous. It also included bored boyfriends of chic fashionistas. The show was fabulous and I can’t help but hum a tune or two today. I recommend seeing them next time they’re in town.
Of note, one of their opening acts Wig Sticks - loved them.
I bumped into Jessie and Dan from MTV and check out this less than flattering picture of us. Look who’s hanging with the local celebs - next stop - Perez!
But lately it seems like it is. I had planned to write a post this week about the environment and link to this because I was the mic girl at a press conference with Sir Nicholas Stern and David Suzuki. That would have made me seem less self-centered, more worldly and of course, a bit bohemian…Alas, I got too wrapped up in cartooning, facebook, the opera and oh yeah, work. And then today I did the myheritage thing and I couldn’t resist posting again about ME! I tried it with a bunch of pictures but thought this one was the most appropriate.
Today I am quoted in what some might call Toronto’s number one event planning magazine - BizBash.TO. It could also be called, Toronto’s only event planning magazine, but who cares? I was interviewed by Paul French about a month ago about choosing invitations for events. I am quite pleased with the outcome. I am also happy to be quoted in an article amongst female leaders in my industry including Julie Rusciolelli, Mia Wedgbury, Carol Panasiuk and Candice Best.
Last night’s Third Tuesday was a good time. Look at all the fun pics we have of the FH Bunch and the rest of the Third Tuesday attendees. We had planned to bring a cartoon I drew yesterday and hold up instead of our mugshots. I was pleased with that option and spent quite a while drawing the sketch. Unfortunately, squidoo forgot it on his desk. But I share it proudly with all of you.
A special thanks to Chris Clarke and the Thornley crew for planning the event and of course for dinner. Best quote of the night - “The 80s called they want their dress back”. Nice work Michael.
Not sure if any of you caught my debut as a movie star on One Degree today but it is pretty hilarious. The lighting? A bit off, but for a laugh its all good. The content? Decent, considering I had had a few glasses of wine (maybe I should be media trained for that? Squidoo?). I do think that the shadow over my teeth makes me look like a Muppet/talking Muppet head, but overall I am not disappointed. I think I had a decent presence and of course, my husky Cathleen Turner voice was solid.
It’s definitely improved my stats today which once again proves my point, I am getting a pretty decent response on this bad boy considering the lack of focus. I will keep writing, if ya’ll keep reading.
Anyone addicted to facebook? I am. A whole other topic.
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