MaynardSays

Dan Quayle

Felt like the right day to bring this back.

I made this last night and subbed 3c water for 3c chicken broth. I thought it was delicious (and I get to eat it again for lunch, joy). I’m psyched on this blog and these recipes, so hopefully I’ll dig into a few more in the next month.

Well, if we’d all been taught this at age 16, the world would just be an easier place. Don’t forget your girdle.

So I am currently paralyzed over the writing of a blog strategy and editorial calendar for my new job as general person who does the googling, writing, and thinking about things (Director of Research, says Linkedin).

I read about editorial calendars. I thought about audience. I considered all the assets I had at hand that were worth sharing. But I can’t get over the fact that people want someone(thing) to connect to and so the straightforward this-is-what-we-do-here just couldn’t possibly be engaging.

So what do I do?

I am not a saleswoman. No. I take that back. I can sell things, using words, that are delicious (a perfect gnocchi, a turn in powder, that red-and-white two-piece dress from Anthro that would be lovely with black flats). But.

How does this translate to a work blog about a social media firm? I want to write about our failures and other people’s successes. I want to write about managing Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Delicious and knowing I could be (but am not) updating the same for 214 and Venus. What if I wrote a blog post about my growing stress regarding attempts to develop an interesting editorial calendar? About the fact that I started remembering my dreams approximately two weeks ago, and it’s all tied to my confusion about creating content, across many mediums and shared professionally, that people want to read?

My brain hurts. I sort of feel like I am trying to write a technical manual with feelings.

Wow. Check out a few more Haiti graphs here.

Really simple advice. I’d like to buy the book.

But here’s my deal. I snack in between breakfast and lunch, and I snack in between lunch and dinner. And I workout 4-6 times a week. There’s no way I could make it from 12:30 to 7 without a decent dose of calories.

I’m trying out Google Latitude. And it seems pretty cool. Except the only other person I am currently friends with on Google Latitude is Coley. So, essentially, we are using Google Latitude to track each other. This is inadvertently crazy. This is what crazy people do in relationships.

Fingers crossed he goes to Shotgun Willy’s for lunch.

I have a few outstanding requests out right now, so I am hoping I can add to the people I am lightly stalking via The Google. In the meantime, I am moving forward, hesitantly, in the world of geo-tagging.

Concerns: Heavy stalking leading to my death, oversharing, opening up a black hole of shared information

Fascinations: Transparency. I can never lie about my whereabouts.

Turns out that we think plays out in the physical world as well. I guess the ability to read body language gives a whole lot of insight into someone.

I love this. You can live blog anything. One hour stuck in an elevator and we get multiple Twitter updates, a few videos, and published news articles.