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I’m Up To Something Again … And I’m Hiring

by · November 20, 2008

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about agency life it’s that you’re always evolving. Doe-Anderson has gone through several evolutions in its interactive department since I started here just two and a half years ago. While my efforts in social media touch the interactive department and are often seen as a peripheral function of it, I came from the PR world and was considered outside the tech curtain.

On Monday of this week, I was asked to lead the interactive department at Doe. The challenge to make the integrated interactive model work at our agency is all I needed to say, “yes.” I do love a good challenge.

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Business Websites Just Got Smarter, Cooler With Podcast-Serving Widget

by · August 14, 2008

I’ve been pitched story ideas on about 100 different widgets in the last six months. This widget does that. That widget does this. Rarely do I write about them because few of them do anything different. It’s just the same crap in different mascara. Besides, I’m starting to grow tired of the word, “widget.”

AccuQuote\'s Podcasting WidgetHowever, I found one that not only has a very cool concept, but that launches today on the websites of — get this — mainstream businesses that are pushing third-party content they do not control to their customers, all in the name of a more enriching website experience. (My first question to Susan Bratton, president of Personal Life Media who pitched the idea to me, was, “Can I have your clients have a word or two with some of Doe-Anderson’s clients? Please?)

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