M3rry Christmas!!

Things to do when you can't sleep

What did I do when I couldn't fall back to sleep the other night?  I started going through my incredibly full email...yes, full of emails from retailers with 40% off, 50% off, "still time to get it in time for Christmas" messages that have been littering my inbox.  Being in marketing, these emails don't bother me at all, I'm very intrigued to see what other retailers are spamming (*gasp*) people with in a last ditch effort to drive sales. Bring it on, retailers!

Anyway, what really caught my eye from 5am-6am, when I wished I was sleeping, were some of the educational, insightful emails I subscribe to that have not been read by yours truly lately as I just haven't made reading them a priority lately (too busy, blah, blah, blah).  So, as I'm reading through them, I get inspired(!).  Wow, these are great articles!  I'd love to share these with people and get their perspective on the information and start collaborating great ideas.  I know! I'll start a BLOG to do this!!! How fun! Okay, now I can go to bed and in the morning, start this new blog, which is exactly what I did.  

I figure out what to call my new blog, design a logo (using the term 'design' incredibly loosely here), write the first post, all of which I am very proud to say took me about an hour, which I think is pretty incredible.  I asked my husband to proof-read since let's face it, I never really cared for being overly grammatically correct, and he has two great pieces of feedback, one that I don't need an apostrophe after my 3, (it's 3s, not 3's... wow, he's so smart!) and his second piece of advice was this:

(From Lifehacker)

DONE is better than PERFECT. So true. Get.it.done. Put it out there. Like anything I've ever done, there is ALWAYS room for improvement.  A room-for-improvement-SOMETHING is better than a perfect-NOTHING. 

Can I get an Amen?






PS - this doesn't mean don't do it correctly. It just means don't be consumed with perfection, it doesn't exist.

Welcome to g33king out

Welcome to g33king out!!  Yes, the URL for geeking with e's was taken, so we'll have to move forward with 3s for e's.  Whatever it takes to call this blog "geeking out".  If you are visiting this blog, then you have probably at one time been referred to or considered yourself one of the following: geek, dork, nerd, and one that I haven't heard in awhile, dweeb.  As I was thinking about starting this blog, I wondered, what IS the difference between a nerd and a geek?  Apparently, this is a question that others are curious about (refer to the list above as the people who are interested in this debate). 

I found this helpful venn diagram to help answer this little question of what means what:

Compliments of greatwhitesnark

As you can clearly see, based on this venn diagram, being a geek is really a great compliment...intelligence and obsession, sure, why not?  And, yes, it wasn't until I saw this venn that the word "dweeb" even came to mind.  Do people even use that word anymore?  Watch out for a dweeb comeback!!

So, let's get to the purpose of this blog.  I want this blog to be a space for collecting illuminating articles, funny illustrations and most importantly, engaging conversation around anything this audience wants to geek out about.  For my part, I'm probably going to geek out about how the marketing landscape is changing and who and what is being done to help understand the value of all things digital.

Look forward to geeking out together!!!