You’ve met and probably worked with at least one: the “Marketing Chick” or the “HR Chick” or the “Admin Chick.” Let me be clear: there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of these noble professions. But for a woman working at tech companies, these roles can be dangerous. Or at least for this woman they…
Tag: marketing
I am more than the sum of my datum
The internets know a bit about me. I’ve never made a particular effort to hide my online behaviors from the “powers that be” because, well, it’s not very interesting or particularly revealing. I’m also curious about for what all of this seemingly banal data might be used . I see the targeted ads, and they…
“Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say” – Cheshire Cat
I read a lot of RFPs and Project Briefs and Proposals. These are documents that are meant to define slippery items like “scope” and “deliverables”, but it is alarming to see how often these documents are vaguely and poorly written. Part of this has to do with the fact that they are often written by…
jargonian nonsensicalness
I work in a field that is loosely connected to Marketing. Interactive media is almost always developed as some kind of marketing tool. I can’t really bitch about this (though occasionally I would like to), since people do need to communicate their message somehow, right? So I find myself often in the presence of Marketing…
is it possible to make an honest living?
And by honest, I mean HONEST. I have been looking at how people, especially creative people, make a living. Call it a personal research project. I am interested in what people do to make money, because I think that this is the one area where people tend to have the greatest cognitive dissonance. As in,…
Plumb Wonderful 