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Re: The Problem with Judging Kids

white trash mom — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:58:43 -0000

That totally sucks. Those judges probably get some kind of "power" fix----my daughter used to show horses and there was a lot of that kind of "judging" in her competitions. On another note, I can't believe you own a PUG and you're Irish! We're a pug loving, Irish band of geeks in my house.

Re: And this is how it all went down: | Immoral Matriarch: Catechizer

white trash mom — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:30:39 -0000

This is totally awesome. Love it and you. You rule.

The latest from Michelle Lamar...Not in the Mood for Teen Humor...

Re: Immoral Parenting: Movies

white trash mom — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:40:43 -0000

Ok-I saw my first R rated movie at age 7. My older brother and sister took me to see R rated movie instead of The Aristocats. I'm fine. If you consider a woman who calls herself WT Mom fine. Which I think you might.

<abbr>The latest from Michelle Lamar... Tampons of Terror: Tampon Bat</abbr>

Re: Immoral Parenting: Movies

white trash mom — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:01:54 -0000

Besides my girls mom think things like this are funny.
http://www.whitetrashmom.com/2008/10/tampons-of...

<abbr>The latest from Michelle Lamar... Tampons of Terror: Tampon Bat</abbr>

Re: BlogHer 2008: East Meets West And All The Rest

white trash mom — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:33:49 -0000

What the picture DOES NOT say is that you cool bloggers forced me to tied myself up, in order to be in the cool group. A form of hazing, actually. I deny everything. Except for the fact that you are AWESOME and I wish we were having drinks right now with Donna:(
Keep in touch---miss you already!

Re: What Do You Do If Employees Don’t Do What They’re Asked To Do?

white trash mom — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:18:01 -0000

Thanks for giving "wt" a shout out. There are many parallels between managing people and managing kids (in my opinion). Thanks again for mentioning WTM and as always, we are big fans of knowhr.

Re: What Do You Do If Employees Don’t Do What They’re Asked To Do?

white trash mom — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:20:28 -0000

PS to Frank-I'm a hard ass too. I've been less of a hard-ass about managing employees and it usually resulted with me, the boss, working later than the entry level employees. I don't manage anyone right now but I turned into a total hard ass after I had people that worked for me work FAR LESS harder than they should have for the money I paid them.

Re: 2009/01/16/mom-blogger-misconceptions/

white trash mom — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:39:39 -0000

Rock on Jessica! Love this post, just wrote about it!

Re: Ways to Disrupt a Community

white trash mom — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:33:31 -0000

Here is my analogy: It's like Eating at a Restaurant.

Facebook is an all you can eat buffet. You get lots of choices and you get dessert. Ning is the place you go when you want to have a really excellent meal with lots of courses in a smaller place where you can talk to people more in depth. There's room for both. I like both. It doesn't have to be one or the other. That's the beauty of it.

I was all fired-up about Grasshoppers over at Facebook. When I saw that it was being moved, I had an instant of "o shit" but quickly got over it once I saw how totally easy it was to set up and go over at Ning. After 30 seconds at Ning, I knew Chris was so right to do the move.

I have the attention span of a flea and Ning was TOTALLY painless. Less than one minute of set up, it's just that easy.

Re: Blog Day is August 31st

white trash mom — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:05:00 -0000

I accept your tag Chris! Will be back later today with my results! Thanks for including me.

Re: Blog Day is August 31st

white trash mom — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:41:47 -0000

Yo! Have posted my blog tag choices at each of my blogs:

http://www.whitetrashmom.com
http://www.shallowandtacky.com
http://www.emergingcustomer.com
http://family.go.com/blog/shopandtell

Thanks for including me, in spite of my trashiness.
I have tagged more victims, I mean friends, to spread the word.

Re: The Long Tail of Community

white trash mom — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:07:14 -0000

Great post, great point. You said what I've been thinking for a long time. You just said it way better than I ever could have.

Re: Why is Social So Big

white trash mom — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:39:19 -0000

You say it so much better than I could. Really great post. Awesome that you put it all in one concise post. Thanks.

Re: Personal Scalability

white trash mom — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:22:14 -0000

Dude...how is it that you always seem to WRITE about the very TOPICS that I am thinking about, pondering, obsessing over? How can this be? Vulcan mind meld? Can you read keyboards? It's spooky. You always know and you say it much better than me. Damn you.

Re: Social Media and Social Network Starting Points

white trash mom — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:43:00 -0000

You forget more in a day than I know. That is simply the truth. GREAT post and I am going to link to it, email it. Thanks for laying out information in a very snackable form.

Re: FastCompany Goes SUPER Social

white trash mom — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:45:38 -0000

I found the new site by accident this AM trying to email a client the article on Mike Rowe from the print edition. WOW. It's a social media geek's dream.

Re: The Power of Personal Leadership

white trash mom — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:30:27 -0000

I SOOOO needed to hear this today. Thanks Rockstar.

Re: How Often Do You Promote Others

white trash mom — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:48:20 -0000

How often do I promote others? NOT ENOUGH! Good post (naturally, coming from you) and good reminder. Rockstar.

Re: Meet Kathryn Jennex

white trash mom — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:34:55 -0000

Hi Kathryn! Nice to meet you and I ditto the others in saying you will learn from the best. And one of the nicest. Welcome.

Re: How Alltop Powers Bloggers

white trash mom — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:26:19 -0000

I love Alltop. If I weren't already married, I would marry it. Great post. I learn something new every time I read your blog.

Re: Advertising and Trust

white trash mom — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:59:49 -0000

Chris,
Forgive my rant but those who say you damaged your credibility are just trying to stir the pot. The problem is that on your WORST DAY, you have more talent, brains and heart IN YOUR LITTLE TOE---than most of your critics will have in their entire lives.
For God's sake, how many big shot media gurus would promote a book with White Trash Mom in the title? Okay, you and Guy Kawasaki.
Note to the asshats who are giving Brogan"the business" about K-Mart: Chris Brogan is one of the good guys. Instead of spending time tearing him down, why don't you worry about your blog, your work. Perhaps in 50 years you can be as good and as cool as Chris.

Re: When Will the Volume Game Turn Down?

white trash mom — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:11:39 -0000

One of my favorite clients, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, used to say:
If the marketing makes customers buy stuff from my store, then keep doing it. If it doesn't, quit doing it.
He especially loved to say this when the media planners would come in with stacks of stats and research telling the board why the marketing was a great idea...even though it didn't create results long term.
One of the reasons I love your blog is because it's based on using COMMON SENSE. I think marketing, social media needs to be looked at from a practical point of view and things usually work out. Maybe that's boring but I've found it's true.

Re: How to Start Speaking at Events

white trash mom — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:42:27 -0000

It is seriously scary how I many times I have a question about a topic, such as "How to Start Speaking at Events", and then you write a post about the topic. I think you are doing a vulcan trick, via cyberspace. I've said it before and I'll say it again, you rock.

Re: You're Doing It Wrong

white trash mom — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:40:48 -0000

Synergy. It's the all time primo-groovy word that we always called when we (my ad agency peeps and myself) ALWAYS used when we played corporate word bingo in the 90s. Synergy is (and was) the ultimate kiss-ass know it all ad hipster's word that screams I KNOW NOTHING! The people that are saying they know it all....they are collectively....one big mess of SYNERGY. There is a point there. I hope you can find it.

Re: How You Might View Bloggers

white trash mom — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:44:43 -0000

chris, it's starting to seriously creep me out how when i am thinking about a subject, i go to your blog and you have posted about the subject. it's a wt-boston-vulcan mind meld. i got an agency pitch today that said, i kid you not, HI MOMMY BLOGGER. then they told me how lucky i saw to get the opportunity to pimp their lip gloss. it's just so bad all i can do is laugh. i met susan getgood last summer and have been cyber stalking her ever since, she's wicked smart.
i get to meet liz strauss in real life next weekend and i am so pumped. i hope she doesn't run from me.

Re: Guest Post - Handling Negative Comments On Your Blog Post

white trash mom — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:51:20 -0000

when i get negative comments, #1 and #2 work extremely well for me. i find that the real jerks always hang themselves in the end, make themselves look stupid. the people who simply disagree with me or make a negative comment often become fans, i've found, if you just let them air their pov. but i don't have a political blog and my blog is called whitetrashmom, so the people that find me aren't always the most serious. go figure.

Re: Guest Post - Things that Keep Me From Falling Down

white trash mom — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:04:38 -0000

thanks for the advice! your post has convinced me to:
1)buy the shoe thingys as i see them every winter and i don't buy them. i have a huge lab and walking him in any weather is a challenge, lol.
2)seriously consider a virtual assistant.
great post and nice to 'meet' you!

Re: How You Might View Bloggers

white trash mom — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:11:56 -0000

sorry to be a stalker about this post but i have just gotten so many horrid 'dear mommy blogger' posts lately that this post fired me up. i think the only thing missing from your post is this....don't be an jerk. if the offer does not motivate you, the pitchER, then why would it motivate the pitchEE?
i was a media planner for years, i always told my media buyers/planners who worked for me this about making media recommendations, telling clients how to spend their ad dollars:
if you would not write a check for the online/tv/radio/print campaign out of your own personal checking account, don't tell the client to write the check out of his/her checking acct.
marketing campaigns are not 100% science but common sense is often ignored by the pr/agency people. common sense and thinking of the other person is the bottom line.

Re: I Support the Future of Sponsored Posts

white trash mom — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:03:16 -0000

Disclose. Simple.
People who think you are influenced by a free Big Mac or even a free Ford Fiesta aren't people who are your base anyway. And if you are a blogger that sells out for a free box of ______, then you aren't going to be around long because nobody wants to read the opinion of a total sellout, even if you giveaway a free box of crackerjacks.
I am not completely objective since you are one of my favorite people so let me DISCLOSE that right here. Let me also say that I give Ted Murphy snaps for taking what looks like a party pic with you, so I like the guy already. Let me also disclose that I am looking forward to seeing you in Chicago for SOBCon09.

Re: Calacanis can’t keep up with Facebook

white trash mom — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:44:09 -0000

One of my new Facebook friends made a great observation: LinkedIn is the MBA/Put-on-a-suit type of networking. Facebook is the irresponsible younger sibling of LinkedIn. MySpace is like the squalling brat toddler of Facebook.
Facebook is a great way to network that is more relaxed than LinkedIn and it's great.
Calacanis is a weenie. I thought one of the points of social media communication was to meet new people (some will be cheeseballs, some will be people that could impact your life in a huge way). Would someone please tell him he's not that important? I don't know the guy but please pass along my message. Thanks.

Re: Calacanis can’t keep up with Facebook

white trash mom — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:45:02 -0000

Okay, I guess I shouldn't have called the guy a weenie.
He's not a weenie but his actions do seem a little bit dramatic.

Re: All the hype in the world (why PR isn’t enough to build your business)

white trash mom — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:02:10 -0000

The velcro-fish hook analogy is awesome. Excellent way to explain to non-geeks (the rest of the world).

Re: 238 Reasons to Buy Age of Conversations 2

white trash mom — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:59:08 -0000

This list is awesome and my feed url was messed up when you did this in early July. Here is my feed url, if it's not too late. Thanks a million for doing this and can't wait until book comes out. Thanks.
Michelle
http://www.emergingcustomer.com/atom.xml

Re: Simma Down, Mamas

white trash mom — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:01:18 -0000

Amen!

Re: Yeah. I have a Teenager.

white trash mom — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:35:16 -0000

Watch the movie THE EXORCIST. It will prepare you for having a teen. As the mom of a 15 year old and an 11 year old, I laughed when people told me to watch out for the teen years. But I'm telling you, it gets weird.
If you feel like you want to melt down, just call me or Sugar---we'll tell you stories that will make you feel like mother of the year.
.-= Michelle Lamar-WTM´s last blog ..Dogs as Smart as Two-Year-Olds? =-.

Re: Blogher 1, Dust Settling

white trash mom — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:37:28 -0000

Girl I wish I would have gotten to spend more than 30 seconds with you BUT next year, you and I are going to hang out. Because I plan to stalk you.
.-= Michelle Lamar-WTM´s last blog ..Dogs as Smart as Two-Year-Olds? =-.

Re: Notice to Staff and Stakeholders: Reorg

white trash mom — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:28:14 -0000

*CRYING. LAUGHING SO HARD* Ann this is so right on that it's scary. My favorite part of the post was the "PS". I have a 14 year old girl. Must tweet this, stumble it as it's a must read. Thanks for making me laugh today as I needed it:)