I’m not a marketer. I don’t know SEO (well, kinda). I don’t have much PR experience. I can’t design you anything, nor can I building anything without directions.
I’m a conversationalist. Yes, I know exactly how cheesy that sounds, but it’s true. I earn my living, and satiate my desire to learn, by talking to people. Lots of people. All kinds of people. If Malcolm Gladwell and others are right that it takes 10,000 hours of practicing your craft to be an expert, well, I’m getting damn close (again, cheesy but true).
My job is to engage, to provoke and to inspire. Services like Twitter have opened up a level of communication previously impossible to someone like. My ADHD-riddled mind loves it, feeds off of it and just can’t get enough.
Yet it’s never about the tools we use, it’s about the people we use them with.
To @hirechelsea, thank you for picking me up whenever I’m down.
To @zenzino, thank you for never giving up on me.
To @ninky, thank you for standing up to me when I needed it.
To @evo_terra, thank you for inspiring me to be me, no matter how much of a douchebag that is.
To @conrey, thank you for questioning most of what I do, but always supporting me.
To @jmoriarty, thanks for including me even when you weren’t really sure what the hell I was going to do.
To @podcampAZ, thank you for changing the way I look at my community and the power it has.
To @phxreguy, thanks for writing so much.
To @dpatricklewis, thanks for letting me call you Senator every day.
To @cwaterhouse, thanks for always being excited to see me.
To @spellwight, thanks for making me laugh.
To @dneighbors, thanks for including me.
To @samuelisaac, thanks for the OWL.
To @strebel, thanks for setting a benchmark.
To @tysoncrosbie, thanks for giving me a true nemesis NEVER KNOWING WHEN IT’S OVER.
To @sunnythaper, thanks for entertaining me.
To @markdudlik, thanks for the reflection.
To @amandavega, thanks for trusting me.
To @chadarizona, thanks for thinking too much.
To @nickmartin, thanks for being good at what you do.
To @pamela_anne, thanks for pissing me off just enough to spur me to write more.
To @raillife, thanks for showing me niche works.
To @laermer, thanks for showing it’s okay to hate a little bit.
To @phxwebguy, thank for showing me it’s okay to be big.
To @ousooner44, for always helping when I need it.
To @azbubba, who really knows how to wear a cap.
To everyone else I interact with, thank you. It takes a village to raise an idiot, and I’m proud to be part of that village.
Here’s to what’s next. Here’s to success. Here’s to being a part of something greater than yourselves.
Let’s do this.
PS…if you’re not on this list and are mad about it, you don’t know me at all. I could make this list five minutes from now and come up with a completely different one. Doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate you all very, very much, because I do. I’m random, but you knew that. Squirrel!
