Meet Anne
Visionary. Strategist. Innovator.
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You Aren’t Ready for Social Marketing.
I’ll repeat it again: you’re not ready for social marketing. Your brand isn’t ready, your company isn’t ready, your organization isn’t ready. You. Are. NOT. Ready. Ignore all the headlines and perceptions. Disregard the doomsday gurus who tell you everything will collapse without a Facebook Page and a twitter feed and a Pinterest presence and [...]
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Invocation for Beginnings
I’ll be honest: I’m coming back. Restarting with a new idea, an enhanced vision, and the same goal I’ve always had: to go out and do something great. And it thrills, excites, and scares me sleepless. Seems it does for many restarts though, including the all-wonderful Ze Frank: Welcome back. Feeling pretty good about this [...]
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High Failure Rates
This is on my refrigerator — one of those regular reminders to wear the clothes, not let the clothes wear me. I never forget what I’m wearing. Suit or otherwise. The dreamers may see things in a gauzy light, the creatives may strive for beauty, but the inventors build something useful not only to themselves, [...]
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Inspiration Friday: The Garden of Your Mind
Welcome to Inspiration Friday, a motley collection of things that, even for a moment, held my gaze and inspiration this week. This week: (1) A Mr. Rogers mashup concocted and sanctioned by PBS Digital Studios and the Symphony of Science. httpvh://www.youtube.com/OFzXaFbxDcM While Mr. Rogers may have been a bit too mild-tempered for me, even as [...]
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The Turning Point
Every innovator can identify the turning point in life — that storybook moment where suddenly an epiphany linking inspiration, purpose, passion, dedication, and the yellow brick road finally (and brilliantly) converge. That gauzy fog lifting to bright sunshine, asking only ‘why have I attempted anything else in life?’ I’m sitting atop the brick wall, my [...]