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Quick-n-dirty Podcast Recap 20: With Guest Host, Cathy Brooks

October 26, 2009 By Aaron Strout Leave a Comment

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to try out a guest host on the Quick-n-Dirty podcast show. My usual partner-in-crime, Jennifer Leggio, was originally supposed to be on a plane during our normal Thursday time slot although her plans changed and she ultimately ended up sticking around. This led to some funny podcast-a-trois when we invited Jen to call into the show during the last 10 minutes.

In Jen’s place, Iwas lucky to have the talented and socially adept, Cathy Brooks, as my guest host and fortunately, she did not disappoint. Cathy and I had met a few times before in real life (SXSW and Jeff Pulver’s 140 Character Conference in NYC) so I had a pretty good sense of her style. To that end, Cathy’s wit and charm helped as we stuck to the shows regular format — and in this case, brought on TWO guests versus our normal one.

We kicked off the show with our usual “featured social network.” In this case, it was social travel site, Tripit, a site that I am a big fan of. As a side note, the folks from Tripit were doing a good job “listening” and reached out to me after the fact to ask if I might be interested in interviewing their co-founders. Suffice to say, you’ll be hearing more from the folks at Tripit in the not-to-distant-future.

Our special guestS (yes, two of them) were none other than Gradon Tripp and Meg Fowler, founders of Social Media for Social Change, a great organization that applies the best of the world of social to the non-profit world. Gradon and Meg not only talked about how their organization had raised a decent amount of cash for good causes but how they were also helping other non-profit organizations harness the power of social. If you haven’t checked out one of their events, keep an eye out for their next event in Miami Florida called @sm4scmiami.

The featured “Twitterer” of the week was Allstate’s Ben Foster. As I was talking about the reasons I liked Ben’s Twitter style — great mix of human and business — he chimed in on Twitter with this hilarious quote:

@aaronstrout Sweet! But now I feel pressure to have smart tweets and not things like Wolf Blitzer T-Shirts and Zombie Wedding Cakes 🙂

And finally, we wrapped up with our traditional point / counterpoint… this time with a focus on social advertising. Of course Cathy and I couldn’t resist bringing Jennifer in for this portion of the show so we had a fast and furious three way dialogue about whether companies should or shouldn’t be advertising on places like Facebook. If you want to find out who chose which side, I guess you’ll just have to listen into the last 10 minutes of the show.

Check out other recaps of the Quick-n-Dirty podcast show either here on Stroutmeister.com or on Jen’s ZDNet blog. We hope you’ll listen in live next week!

The Sixth Photo Meme and More Fun with Memes!

January 3, 2009 By Aaron Strout Leave a Comment

Ever heard the term, “you reap what you sew?” Well, I guess I deserve to be tagged in not just one, but TWO games of meme tag by friends, Gradon Tripp and Jennifer Leggio. This particular post is fulfilling on my obligation to Mr. Tripp. The other post will be fulfilled over on Facebook and is building on a meme that I tagged Jennifer with earlier i.e. 7 things you may or may not want to know about me. My task in this case is to come up with 25 things.

Gradon’s game of meme tage is a little bit simpler because all I have to do is pick the sixth picture on the sixth page of Flickr. It would have been nice if I could have picked a picture of my choosing – if so, I may have gone with something like below (I took it earlier this week up in Maine). It was 3 degrees that day and the wind was blowing 40-50 mph).

Instead, we got this one which is not one of my most exciting. It’s just a family picture from a recent holiday party up at my parent’s cabin. I guess that’s part of the fun of this meme tag is that who knows what you’ll get when you choose.
With that said, I’m off to the tagging part of this post. For my six, I’m going to tap:
  • Rob Everton aka @foolthrottle
  • Colin Browning
  • Mack Collier
  • Marc Cusherman aka @thekush
  • Doug Wick
  • Scott Hepburn

Enjoy! Make sure you return the favor.

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