Michaelbox

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.

I do not know exactly when it clicked in my mind or what sparked it all, but as I was sit­ting at my day job, the idea of writ­ing out tweets by hand came to me. I sat there rolling it around in my head and it came to me that peo­ple would be able to write beyond twitter’s 140 char­ac­ter limit with vari­able read­abil­ity depend­ing on clear leg­i­ble writ­ing. With the wide pro­lif­er­a­tion of cell phones con­tain­ing built in cam­eras, as well as many photo ser­vices being tied to twit­ter already, there is an extremely low entry require­ment for hand­writ­ten tweets.

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.

It really should come as no sur­prise that I’d have an inter­view with Rachael at some point. If you’ve read over pre­vi­ous entries in the blog, *cough* My Time, So Far, as a Min­ion post *cough*, you know I have a long stand­ing his­tory of work­ing with her on var­i­ous projects. You can fol­low her on twit­ter at caf­feinat­edelf (Twit­ter) or find her at The Caf­feinated Elf It’s with that won­der­ful rela­tion­ship that I am very happy to present her responses to the fif­teen ques­tions I posed to her. Lets get to them. (con­tinue reading…)

I will be the first to admit here, that think­ing of unique and cre­ative ques­tions every cou­ple weeks can be a bit dif­fi­cult. How­ever, some­times they just flow out of me. It’s even eas­ier when I can play off char­ac­ter­is­tics of the inter­vie­wee. I do what I can to frame my ques­tions in ways that show that I’ve done my research and show that I had each inter­vie­wee specif­i­cally in mind for that ques­tion. I am proud to say that I was able to do that a num­ber of times with Emtay­lor (Twit­ter). Shall we get started and get to know Emma a bit better?