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No way do you know me! Ok maybe you do. I do what I can to express a lot and always make peo­ple laugh, even in the tough­est of times. This inter­view is a spe­cial one that I decided to do back in the early days of the inter­view post idea. It’s done in con­junc­tion with my 27th birth­day today. All of the ques­tions, except one, are sub­mit­ted to me from the peo­ple you’ve already met in this blog series, as well as a small hand­ful from oth­ers on twit­ter. I appre­ci­ate all of them spend­ing some time to sug­gest one or three. Lets get to it, I’m get­ting sappy.

I don’t have much to say for intro­duc­tion other than thank­ing Cheryl for agree­ing to par­tic­i­pate on such a short notice as well as being very timely with her response. She is a com­mu­ni­ca­tions strate­gist in Colum­bus, Ohio with focus in social media tech­nol­ogy. She is also my social media inter­view can­di­date for the series. She serves as the Tac­ti­cal Lead for Social Busi­ness Strate­gies and has been actively using social media for more than 10 years, hav­ing worked pro­fes­sion­ally as a com­mu­nity man­ager and inter­ac­tive strate­gist. Hope you enjoy get­ting to know her.

While the name “Jon Phillips” may not be instantly rec­og­niz­able to you, if you attempt to keep your thumb on a gen­eral pulse of the web design com­mu­nity, chances are you’ve come across him already, or at least his online mag­a­zine Spyre Studios.

I recall the day that the idea of inter­view­ing him came up. Selene M. Bowlby and I were talk­ing and I went to my twit­ter list to see who I could inter­view next. Jon’s pro­file showed up and to me, approach­ing him felt like aim­ing for the stars. I men­tioned the idea to Selene and she was for it 100%, She sug­gested to men­tion her­self in my intro­duc­tion email since her and Jon had con­versed a lot in the past. Thank­fully, Jon agreed to par­tic­i­pate and here we are, about to get to know Jon Phillips.

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If you are read­ing this post, then chances are high that you are well aware of my ongo­ing inter­view series “Do You Think You Know…”. If you have man­aged to beat the odds and do not know what I’m talk­ing about, just read some pre­vi­ous posts, the series will stand out and you can get caught up easily.

With all due respect to both past and future inter­views, I con­sider this one to be my most impor­tant. With this inter­view, I am hold­ing up a mir­ror to your pasts. When you look into this mir­ror, you do not see your­self, you see Alex Cook. “What do you mean” you say? Alex is fresh out of Uni­ver­sity, and at the start of her path to her career.