Swinging for the fences – Tristan Walker and Foursquare

“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 [...]

This glass is half full

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 [...]

A fork stuck in the road.

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 [...]

I’ve got a new business card

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 [...]

The Me in Team

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 [...]

maybe I need a wizard

As some of you may know I’m in the process of searching for a marketing job. So I’ve been contacting a lot of different companies following up on job leads. This post is about closed organizations. I consider a closed organization one where the barriers to entry for getting basic information are VERY high. I’ve [...]