10th
First Post
This is the third blog I’ve started and I still have that same awkward, first-day-of-school, not quite sure how to start off feeling. I just accepted a challenge from the Chair of the Marketing Communication Department at Emerson College to teach a course in social media and marketing. I decided to approach this class by putting myself in the shoes of my future students - If I had a professor teaching such a class with a focus on a media that evolves by the minute, I would expect him or her to have: 1. serious experience using social media CHECK and 2. have a blog that follows social media and marketing - oops - “OK time to set up another blog”. Which brings me to setting up this blog in between innings of Game 1 of the ALCS - GO SOX. For this blog I felt it was time to try out tumblr. Why? I have heard great things about it from James Siminoff, the CEO of PhoneTag, I really didn’t want to deal with setting up another wordpress blog and I have heard it’s super easy to integrate with Twitter, YouTube and other social media I use on a daily basis.
Chances are this blog will never be well read or referenced by people other than friends, students or associates, but I have an innate compulsion to exceed my own expectations for any project I set myself too and this blog will probably be no exception, which is why I am a bit nervous that this blog may become a time suck for me - but I’ll jump of that bridge when I get to it. One other note I’d like to share about this blog is my fascination with two line rhymes - I read the two line rhymes of the late, great Melvin Richard and was instantly hooked - I figure this blog can also serve as an outlet for honing the skill. I’ll leave you with one of my favorite’s of Melvin’s:
A Nun With A Sex Change Who Had Been A Mister
Is Known In The Trade As A Transister
