I Start My Day With Mashable

what should we call memorial day

Like the rest of the internet, I like the #whatshouldwecallme site.

a lot.

As an ode to my love for the site, and an ode to the giant pimple growing under my nose, I wanted to make my own.

HOW I WANT TO LOOK ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

WHAT I ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE WITH THE GIANT ZIT FORMING ON MY NOSE

WHAT I LOOK LIKE WHEN I COME TO TERMS WITH THE FACT THAT MOST OF THE BARS ARE DARK, AND EVERYONE WILL BE TOO TIPSY TO NOTICE THE THIRD NOSTRIL GROWING ON MY FACE

Webutante Ball 2012 Instagram recap

Fun times with the 360i coworkerz at the Webutante Ball

Summer Reading List

Given the fact that it recently took me 6 months to read The Help cover to cover, I want to set some ground rules for myself this Summer. By ground rules, I mean one rule.

Read more than one book within a 6 month time period.

It hasn’t always taken me that long to read books. In fact, I used to be quite the flipper of hand-held literature back in my grammar school days.

However, now that Pizza Hut and Six Flags incentives aren’t there to motivate me anymore, its become more difficult to flip pages (and much easier to flip channels.)

I hold my reality TV obsession fully accountable for my inability to read The Help at a rate faster than 2 pages per night.

So here’s the list of books I want to read this Summer: 

*this list is in no order of importance, except that the ones I list first came to my head first, so they’re most likely a bit more important

1. Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging out Without Me 

• the trailer for her TV show in the Fall looks incredible, she’s insanely intelligent, and hysterical.

2. Tina Fey’s Bossypants 

• this has been on my list for a while, I’ve just yet to pick up a copy (aka borrow the copy that my sister already picked up)

3. Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

• similar to Vince Vaughn, I feel that if I met The Bloggess (aka my hero) IRL we’d be good friends. In my head, I’m visualizing that reading her book will get me that next step closer to being invited to her house for white wine.

4. E L James’ Shades of Grey

• mainly picking this up because Ellen did this (yea…that’s why..) 

5. George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones 

• I don’t get HBO, so this is the closest thing

*I also feel that reading 5 books this summer will somehow get me a step closer to my newest life goal: becoming Lena Dunham.

More on that later

when I’m the first in the office to find the newest internet thing

life.

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I Entered Kate Spade’s Pinterest Contest

I just entered Kate Spade’s Pinterest contest for two reasons.

1. I really want this Vespa.

and

2. I’m still just as obsessed with Pinterest as I was when I first joined, so I’ll tale any excuse I can to be on it.  

I wanna win this Vespa, so help a sista out and like a pin on my board so maybe these beautiful people will take more notice? 

zoom zoom.

For those of you who are just as interested as Pinterest and brand contests as I am, here are the contest additional details.

Sidenote: I’d appreciate if you didn’t enter so I have a better chance. I’ll lend you the vesp. if I win.

Pinky promise.

HOW TO ENTER:

During the Contest Period, you may enter by visiting http://katespade.info/ridecolorfully

Entrants must complete all the requested information on the entry form including first and last name, email address, zip code, and opt-in for newsletters (Vespa and kate spade newsletters, respectively).

LIMIT one (1) entry/board per person, per email address, per Pinterest account. If you are not already a member of Pinterest, you must join Pinterest to participate in the Contest. Pinterest is free to join and is by invite only. You can request an invite from Pinterest by going to http://pinterest.com and clicking on the “request an invite” button located on the top, center of your web browser screen.

If you do not receive your invite within 24 hours, please email socialny@katespade.com to obtain an invite.

Once you are a member of Pinterest, to enter the Contest, in addition to completion and submission of the entry form, you must do all of the following:

(1) follow @katespadeny pinterest boards or go to pinterest.com/katespadeny and click the “follow” button;

(2) create a pinboard and title it “ride colorfully”; theme of board must be based upon where you would travel on your kate spade new york Vespa LX50;

(3) your pinboard must include a kate spade new york custom vespa image

(4) your pinboard must have a minimum of 20 pins

(5) hashtag each of your pins with: #ridecolorfully in everything you pin so that we may find your entries in the search results

Instagram’s Now on Android

Instagram is now available on Android, and all I can think to do is create an “All my life, I’ve waited for an app like you” re-mix to KC & JoJo.

& filter everything. 

Notes about a #cmmeetup that reminded me why I need to keep going to more Meetups

I joined the #cmmeetup group a  little over a year ago, and my key takeaway from attending this week’s meetup, was that I really need to keep going to more Meetups.

The panelists @jasonkeath (Social Fresh), @joeciarallo (Buddy Media), @matthewknell (AOL). Each of them had a unique, but equally as informative, take on the subject of Timeline for Brands, and touched on the undeniable value in Community Managers & creating engaging content. 

And that was a run-on sentance, but I wanted every part to stay in there, so I’m keeping it.

Two brands they mentioned who converted to Timeline, and were using the new format very well were Red Bull & the City of New York. They specifically called out the City of New York’s  #loveNYC contest, which is awesome.

Additionally, I learned about two sites I’ll definitely be using from now on: start.io & follower wonk. 

That’s all for now.

But, like I said in the title of this, these were just my notes that reminded me why I need to keep going to more of these.