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And the winner is-Everyone. Marketwire wins Netchick’s prize and gives back to help the cause

by Tris Hussey on December 2, 2008 · 0 comments

in Internet Life, Random Bits, Social Media, Web 2.0

Last night there was a Tazzu dinner in Yaletown where the big even of the night was going to be Tanya (Netchick) drawing the winner of her $500 cash prize for donating to her Team Diabetes run.
Tanya had the lovely Monica Hamburg do the draw (since she didn’t have any entries in, unlike John Chow with 52 and myself with 7) and she pulled Marketwire!
The funny thing is that everyone wanted to know who would be next and it Gus … who works at Marketwire and helped to get the [...]

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Motrin tries to reach out, but gets hand bitten off by potential customers

by Tris Hussey on November 16, 2008 · 5 comments

in Social Media, Web 2.0

It’s the weekend so a large company is going to get trashed on Twitter for a social media gaff. This week’s winner is Motrin.
Katja Presnal has a great summary (and the video that caused the uproar) on her blog and Mashable has a post by Sarah Evans giving some additional commentary on what went on but let me give you the short sentence version.
PR-advertising agency Taxi NYC made a site-promotion for Motrin targeted at mom’s who “wear” their babies (that is using a sling, snugglie, etc) that used a video [...]

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Today is World Diabetes Day and you can help

by Tris Hussey on November 13, 2008 · 1 comment

in Social Media

Today is World Diabetes Day. Diabetes is something close to me. My Grandmother had it and died of the eventual complications.
Buzz Bishop has an auction going at 95Crave for some cool things:

[From 95Crave Auctions for World Diabetes Day | The Blog According to Buzz Bishop]

And he and Tanya Davis are running a freakin’ half-marathon in January to raise money for diabetes research.
I’ve donated, how about you?

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A Rite of Passage: Had my first heart scare last night.

by Tris Hussey on June 5, 2008 · 15 comments

in Random Bits

Before I get into the story, I will start with: I’m okay.  I didn’t have a heart attack, I was thoroughly checked out at the hospital and sent home (at 2:00 AM).
And now the story…
Yesterday was relatively “normal” day for me, email, twitter, RSS, etc.  But towards the end of the day, I had buried the needle in my stress-o-meter in the red zone.  This should have been my first clue.
By evening, thoroughly stressed about life stuff (something I will elaborate on at MapleLeaf 2.0 shortly), I went to visit [...]

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