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Guest blogging is booming! Well, in my case, I’ve been quite busy posting on some other sites.
Here’s a quick recap:
A Young Professional’s Guide to Internship Interviews: This post on The Communications Blog was SO much fun to research and write. I got some great feedback and because of this posts, I’ve been able to secure a few more post ideas and even a pretty awesome interview with PR pro Deirdre Breakenridge. [...]

I’ve seen a lot of people – and businesses – jump into social media well before they’re ready. Instead of going in with a clear idea, strategy, or even some sense, they just decide that it’s enough to have a Facebook or Twitter profile. It’s not. The “me too!” mentality doesn’t work. You have to have a purpose.
Before starting any social media efforts on behalf of a brand, business, or even yourself, you must take [...]

Happy seems to be quite in vogue these days. Between books like The Happiness Project and major merchandise deals surrounding Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, the culture of happy is just…wow. It’s a money maker. It’s a life changer. It’s a mover and a shaker. OK, enough with the rhymes, but you get the picture. Happiness and its pursuit have been a dominant theme in contemporary pop culture. Being a hopeless optimist, I’m actually kind of glad [...]

Yesterday, I ate my lunch alone. Actually, I eat lunch alone quite a bit, and you know what, it’s really ok.
Look, I know that they’ve written books about how you shouldn’t eat alone, but I value the few moments I have in my day when I can just stop and think. If you know me outside of this blog, you know that I’m a work like mad kind of person. I look angry when I [...]

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A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of reconnecting with an old classmate from LLHS. Andy, who is currently living and working in Asia, is living the dream. He’s traveling and doing what he loves – and to me, that’s pretty darn awesome.
He and I chatted about what we were up to and though we never talked much in high school, we had the chance to connect over the [...]