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Swinging for the fences – Tristan Walker and Foursquare

Posted by Gavin Baker - June 18, 2010 - career
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“When I first heard about Foursquare, I emailed [co-founder] Dennis Crowley. He said, “Are you ever in New York?” I said, “Actually, yeah! I plan on being in New York tomorrow.” [Laughs.] I booked my flight that night, met with him and, a month later, I was working for Foursquare. ” says Tristan Walker responsible [...]

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Read More Business and Economy, career, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare, go big, New York, New York City, start up, Tristan Walker, United States

This glass is half full

Posted by Gavin Baker - May 14, 2010 - career
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I’m leaving Ruby Tuesday. About a year ago I wrote this post talking about my decision to join Ruby Tuesday in the role to help lead the social team and WOW it went fast. My time at Ruby was great and I’m thankful for the opportunity to have collaborated and made a few waves with [...]

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Read More agencynet, digital, digital media, knoxville, knoxville agency, knoxville firm, knoxville pr, Moxley Carmichael, new job, ruby tuesday, social media manager

A fork stuck in the road.

Posted by Gavin Baker - June 1, 2009 - career
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Last week I made a new life transition.  I’ve started a new job with Ruby Tuesday as the Social Media Manager.  To be completely candid – a large(r) public company was one of the last places I thought I’d end up after my time at Abunga came to a close.  However after learning about the [...]

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Read More business, business blogging, business facebook, business twitter, IBM, Internet marketing, Marketing and Advertising, ruby tuesday, rubytuesday, social media, social media manager, twitter, Unix

I’ve got a new business card

Posted by Gavin Baker - March 24, 2008 - abunga, business card, career, knoxville
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As I was writing my last post about Kip Knight and eBay, I noticed it was just about a month to the day between my posts.  I consider this a bad revelation as I’ve really been trying to post at least once a week, if not more. I’ve had a lot less time to blog [...]

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Read More abunga, business, Business card, career, ceo change, Office Products, Printing, Rob Ford, Shopping, Stationery and Paper, Supplies

The Me in Team

Posted by Gavin Baker - January 31, 2008 - career, change, collaboration
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Anyone remember that LL Cool J commercial from a few years ago for the Gap where the key phrase was “fall into the gap”? Well I ran across an post on Penelope Trunk’s blog, the Brazen Careerist recently that talked about the rising generation gap between baby boomer, X and Y at work.  I’m part [...]

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