Personal Notes

An open window to my life

a great photographer can even make me look good

one of my goal’s coming into this year was to keep you more abreast of my life (ups and downs). in the spirit of staying on track with that, i wanted to share the great photos that came out my recent engagement shoot.  chris duggan, the photographer, did a great job (check him out if you’re in the market).  as always, tanya…

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guess who is on the cover of black enterprise

no one you probably know (it’s actually my, ceo, don coleman!). but what’s even cooler (at least to me) is that if you flip past the cover, or click on this link, you’ll find my name  listed underneath a list of top black executives in the marketing and advertising space (along with my ceo; my mentor and coach, allen pugh, and…

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how marketing helped me propose

if you have been reading my blog you know that one of my fundamental beliefs is that there is much that we can learn about how to approach marketing from life and vice versa.  i call them lifemark principles. well, three weekends ago i got engaged and what better time to apply everything i learned from marketing, right?  after all,…

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what words are you feeding on?

last week i was promoted to the head of client services for the detroit office of globalhue.  wow, talk about favor.  you probably won’t find a person my age with the amount of agency experience that i have in that same post anywhere.  truth is, i probably have at least a decade on the next closest person.  i don’t say this to brag…

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my article on technicultr

last week i was asked to respond to this question on technicultr: should social networking sites ask for ethnic information?  interesting question so i tried to develop a thoughtful answer.  you can judge for yourself, check it out why i said it’s got huge upside, but risky for any current sites to travel down this path: “collecting ethnic information on social media…

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my response to how black people use twitter

last week a huge stir was created around a question posed by a journalist at slate magazine?  the title, how black people use twitter, was enough alone to create a frenzy.  earlier this week i posted a response to the article that was posted on the globalhue web site.  you can check it out here.  but here’s a snippet to get you started: “Blacks are…

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