Style...

Style is a way to tell the world who you are without having to speak.

I just saw that on Twitter and I stopped.

In a world where acceptance is sometimes far more important than uniqueness, style can get lost in a maze of becoming someone else's expectations - and then some.

Nope. Style means I am unlike anyone else. I - am - UNIQUE. Style means I can like and accept myself - and my style - more than I like and accept the concept of looking like someone else. Finding that style can be a fumbling game at best at times, but being comfortable in your own skin is far more comfortable than wearing someone else's.

I've discovered that with shoes. No high heels - no chunky, clunky for looks sake for my feet. That style means OUCH for me - not my style. I found an awesome pair of solid leather black flats that will probably outlast me, they're made so well. And the instant I put them on - ahhhhhhh..... comfort. My style. Not showy. Not flashy. No glim glam flash for my feet. Quality. Comfort. Classic. Functional. Healthy. Yup - now I'm bulleting out... my style.

No one else like me... And I'm going to be comfortable with that.

Confessions of a left-behind marketer...

Hello world!

Posted on March 30, 2011 by sandypdot

Well, here I am.  Brave… in a new world.  A historical marketer in a whole new marketing realm – Social Media marketing.  I went to sleep in a field of poppies when I stepped away from my marketing life a few years ago, and now I find myself awake – at the gate to a Land of Oz.  It’s not that the whole realm of Social Media is totally foreign.  Oh no.  While living in the non-profit world during the past few years, administrating books, finances, risks, and systems, FaceBook has been my warm-and-fuzzy connective blanket to friends near and far.  LinkedIn became a place for me to stay connected to professionalism as I knew it – with people I could engage with on a higher business level.  As the gnawing to reconnect to my marketing roots grew to seismic proportions, I re-acquainted myself with a Twitter that I had left previously as being too random – too hit & miss – too slam bam.  I found new life (!!!)  in Twitter as a marketing tool and, as I continue to sort through a new language of hashtags, @mentions, and link shorteners that make Twittering and being Twittered so interesting and engagingly entertaining, I find myself agog at what lies ahead… and smiling.

Blog.  Blogfrog.

Digg this?

Ping that?

I’m like a kid in a candy store, hooked on Hershey bars and excitedly surrounded by… a plethora of new treats to taste and savor and digest.  I love candy stores.  And I think I’m going to enjoy what I find ahead in this candy store of sorts – a whole new realm of marketing – a Social Media adventure.