Monday August 24, 2009
Taken from http://www.markpollard.net.
Greetings and thanks for checking out my writenings.
I launched this blog in late January 2009 because I was sick of not writing stuff. You see, I used to write a lot – maybe 2,000 words a week for magazines like 3D World and Inpress and my own baby Stealth Magazine (this little interview I did with Flavor Flav even made its way into Vice Magazine – the original one in Canada – some time in 1999). And then I took a break and buried myself in my work world.
Well, I’ve managed to dig myself out of that myopia and, to be honest, you can probably blame young Julian Cole for it. I met him at a conference. He reminded me of me… ages ago. He was wearing sneakers and a cap, for one. That used to be my thing. And he was the young guy that got rolled out in front of the old school to let them know what was new in the zoo. Again, I used to get paid for that. But, more importantly, his youthful zest snapped me out of my crusty work-world and gave me the kick I needed to get back into writing, thinking and communicating. So, thanks, big man. I’ll see you at TED one day.
Where I work and what I do
I currently work at McCann Sydney (the lovechild of McCann Erickson and MRM Worldwide) as the Strategy Director. That means I help companies solve business and brand problems with ideas. If you’re curious about my work history, please check out my LinkedIn profile. If you’d like to find out about the McCann story and whether we can work together, email me (markboogie [@] gmail.com).
Happy to speak at your event
I’ve spoken at Ad:tech, guest lectured for ADMA, and presented at Ignite, Marketing 2.0 conference, the NSW Knowledge Management Forum, universities and a bunch of other events. If there’s anything on this website that you’d like me to talk to an audience about, all you need to do is ask.
If you want something that’s ready and packaged, I give you:
- Social media (aka Don’t use social media)
- Twitter. WTF? (a story about Twitter for personal use)
- Online communities (aka 7 things hip hop taught me about community)
Anyway, my aim here is to write stuff that makes you think.
And to have you write back – and make me think. Fair deal?
Catch you on Twitter.
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