Nathan Snell :: The Technopian

Holy Crap Pants

I’m alive. It’s true. In fact, I was just up at BlogCarolinas in Research Triangle Park a few days ago, so I even have evidence of my livelihood and that this isn’t in fact a ghost writer trying to cover up my assassination (because, you know, I’m important enough to be assassinated).

So what’s been my deal? Well, I graduated from UNCW this past weekend, which is pretty much awesome, but took quite a bit of my time over the past month or two, as you can imagine. Now I am working on finalizing where I will be working this week. With that, my advice would be to not lowball yourself. I generally don’t, but Rolf from Shoeboxed gave me a kickass-challenge of an interview. Seriously, he fired questions faster than I type words (122 words per minute) or faster than immigrants hop across the border. Good questions, too! It was a blast. But I cracked slightly under the pressure (hence forth came my lowball). Damn.

On the same college note, I will have to say, I hate academics. I love education. I read business books all day, but the standard scenario in college (from what i’ve seen) involves a teacher who sucks at teaching, or has had the passion, curiosity, and worthwhile sucked from their eyeballs (shooooooooock!). That said, while not all the teachers in the business school at UNCW were good, Tracy Meyer and Steve Harper were two individuals that made coming to college entirely worth it. That still doesn’t mean I like academics anymore than before.

In addition, and I am sure this is of no surprise, I’ve also been slightly preoccupied as I’ve been playing around with a side project. It’s a website I suspect to get to usable measures come the end of this week (or slightly into next). I look forward to the challenge of marketing it as I am planning on using entirely unconventional methods (or near unconventional). More on this later.

I have also been researching/learning/developing an online community development plan for a social networking site. While it doesn’t pertain specifically to marketing (or social media in the normal sense) if you all would like, I can post my findings, methods, and so forth here (I almost said “y’all”. That would have been dreadful).

There are a few posts in the rafters here that I am working on unborifying (oh, that’s a word). They should have some relative intrigue to them. If nothing else, it’ll be a little something-something for your brain to nibble on before shoving into the recess of your mind until you’re in a meeting later, recall it, and then sing my praises (insert evil cackle).

In the mean time, thanks for sticking with me. As my life shifts from balancing college to working full-time doing awesome stuff for a company, I look forward to shifting my posts in a similar fashion of awesomeness (that actually is a word) for you all :)

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