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Roller Coaster Mashup

From what I can tell, Spunlogic is one of the more fun tech companies in Atlanta.  They're also grokking social media!  I attended an AiMA meeting this past week on Branding 2.0, and Spunlogic employees were everywhere!  My general impression of everyone I've met at the company is that they're all young (at heart even), hip, and loving what they're doing! It seems that they're also diving into Second Life, which puts them ahead of the curve when it comes to Atlanta presence in the Metaverse! 

In any case, Jeff Hillmire of Spunlogic has been working on putting together an exciting event that he's just passed off to Sherry to market.  Naturally, she's started by putting together a blog for this event.

So, what happens when you take a bunch of marketing people, and a bunch of technology people, and let them loose in a theme park?  It's a Roller Coaster Mashup!

From the first post:

"As the world of marketing and the world of technology continues to collide, we need to embrace and get to know each other. What better way to get to know someone than to be smashed up next to them on a roller coaster ride, right?

So, Jeff has reserved a night at Six Flags on September 28, 2007 from 6 pm to midnight for all of the marketing and technology professionals in GA to get together for a night of fun, networking and letting loose."

I'm really excited about this!  Not only is this a great opportunity for people to get to know one another in Georgia's technology industry, it's going to be interesting to see the role social media is going to play.  Anybody want to create a social network for this?

Jeff Haynie's using rollercoastermashup as the technorati tag, so I'll follow suit.  Blog about this event and send it to all the marketing and technology geeks in your life!  Let's see how fast we can spread the word and get to 3000 attendees!

And don't forget to register early, and often!!

Starting the week off right

Ever feel like you wake up on Monday morning wondering where last week went?  Yeah.  It was one of those weeks.  When you know you've been productive, but it feels like you have nothing to show for it because your actual productivity has nothing to do with the goals you set forth the week previous.  Lot's of mind-numbing surprises last week.

What really kills me is the feeling of guilt I'm experiencing.  Last week was filled with all sorts of things that needed to get done (such as taxes,) and yet I feel guilty for not getting anything done.

I'm going to file this one under the 'setting my expectations for myself too high and without regard to the reality of things that need to get done' folder.

On the plus side, my environmental science course totally 0wnz!  Despite being slightly more of a time sink then I had anticipated, it's giving me the chance to revisit all sorts of material I've bookmarked on WorldChanging.com throughout the past few years.  I'm probably going to turn a few of my weekly assignments into blog posts.

Unlike last week, I felt the need to start this week off right.  By blogging!  And now back to work.