Life has been hectic lately. But just like Jake says, "Life is Good". Because of the chaos that is a new computer, a new iPod, long distance relationship turned short distance, crazy work occurrences and establishing a greater online presence, I've neglected updating my blog with ideas filling up my Inbox. So, in one post full of random bullet points, I present to you my Thursday Night Brain Explosion...
- Helvetica the movie. I heard some creative types at my agency talking about it months back. It's $9.99 on iTunes so I'll probably just add it to my Blockbuster Online queue. If you've seen it, what did you think? Is it worth it? Does it have anything to do with typefaces? I love fonts and typefaces.
- With the recent passing of Estelle Geddy, I've been reminiscing about my favorite Golden Girls moments and what was actually so golden about that sitcom. I remember, as a little girl, visiting my cousins and aunts who lived in the same house. My cousin looked just like Blanch and my aunt looked like Dorothy. I always wondered where Rose and Sophia were since they were my favorites.
- My blog has made Alltop's Twenty Something listing. This is the first time I've done some real self-promotion for my blog, besides asking Chris Brogan if he thought I was a rock star (he did). So check out the page where I'm featured and check out the different feeds on Alltop. It's incredibly thorough and informative.
- With the recent passing of Estelle Geddy, I've been reminiscing about my favorite Golden Girls moments and what was actually so golden about that sitcom. I remember, as a little girl, visiting my cousins and aunts who lived in the same house. My cousin looked just like Blanch and my aunt looked like Dorothy. I always wondered where Rose and Sophia were since they were my favorites.
- My blog has made Alltop's Twenty Something listing. This is the first time I've done some real self-promotion for my blog, besides asking Chris Brogan if he thought I was a rock star (he did). So check out the page where I'm featured and check out the different feeds on Alltop. It's incredibly thorough and informative.
- My friend Amiee, whose dog Maui was featured in Times Square, tipped me off to an interesting MediaPost article on social media in marketing. It posts predictions on the rise of social media. It's not going away, you know, in fact social media advertising is expected to generate $1.4 billion this year.
"With more than one-quarter of adults domestically and 13% in Europe regularly engaged in texting and blogging, widgets and social networking, social media is nearing critical mass–and is here to stay. eMarketer estimates that by 2011, half of all online adults and 84% of online teenagers in the U.S. will use social networking."
"Economic stress actually forced the issue for some by utilizing social media devices and interactive tools to drum up and secure revenues in tough times."
- My coworker, Tia, tipped me off to an interesting Web site, Neurofocus. She says this about the company "For decades, television networks have relied on ratings to sell advertisements. Now, a company, NeuroFocus, studies the brain's responses to TV scenes and commercials to find out more about a viewer's attention span, memory and level of engagement." I received their latest White Paper and I can't wait to dive into their research. Check them out!
- I've recently been researching and reading up on solid researching regarding my generation. Generation Y, Millennials, Social Natives, Whatever. What I've found is that the research available is full of mass generalizations and overwhelmingly offensive assumptions. I'm in the process of doing some research of my own and putting my thoughts together on this topic.
4 comments:
Congrats on making it to Alltop! Also can't wait to check out Helvetica the movie!
My co-workers and I all got together a few months ago and watched Helvetica. Its really interesting! You will def. like it. Its amazing to see how passionate some people are about typefaces!
Thanks for Felon Spy! So freaky... but thankfully, I only have three in my general area, and they're not too close. Not too dangerous, either, as the case may be.
The brain is extremely cool and so are you! Thanks for digging our work – we love it too. The brain is a never-ending source of amazement. I'll shoot you some new white papers. In January we are launching our renovated NeuroLab, which is the now world's largest neurological testing laboratory. If you will be in California, come to the party!
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