Happy Halloween from your Community Manager. <3
October 30, 2009
It's Friday. It's almost Halloween. Let's blog about fun stuff, shall we? How about our latest TypePad Motion site: mmmeow?
Join today to share your love for cuteness. And we're platform-agnostic when it comes to cute. Our favorite micro-dog has her own Microblog!
While I'm telling stories and talking community:
Once upon a time about a month ago, we had a bug. The bug was not fun. The bug happened as a holiday weekend began. The bug caused a group of Angry Knitting Bloggers™ to take to the virtual streets and let us know in no uncertain terms that they were unhappy about it. As your intrepid community manager, I rolled up my sleeves, shooed my dinner guests from my laptop, and started talking, typing, commenting, blogging: everything I could do to listen, react, and change the situation for the better. It took a while. Sometimes, being front and center in front of people? It's a challenge, no doubt.
Once everyone was mostly happy again, I thought to ask one community member, Cookie, of Shut Up and Knit, if she had any ideas for something durable-yet-adorable that I could wear over my bike gloves for "lady-biking" through the city. SF has lots of microclimates (hot one moment, cold the next) and bike gloves can have a lot of ugly.
Lo and behold, I had a package on my desk with the PERFECT pair of pink hand-knit bike gloves.
Then, a couple of weeks ago, I blogged about using social media to create social change. I saw the kitty-cat hat from blogger Soper of Uterine Wars and couldn't get it out of my head. So I bought it for her fundraiser, but also because HELLO? HALLOWEEN IS CATURDAY!
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the blogger-powered outfit I biked to work in today (while making Tuff Bike Face the whole time, of course):
Seriously, you guys in the TypePad community are the best. Thanks for making my job, my day, and my outfit. Rock out!
Love those gloves!
Posted by: A Twitter User | October 31, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Happy Halloween!
I like the last photo :)
Posted by: Account Deleted | October 31, 2009 at 09:14 AM
Hey, if you got the time check out my latest post "Much, Not Everything, But Much of What I've Learned in Life, I Learned From Britain's Got Talent" And can you put me on the beta team so I can try out the Chroma theme?
http://www.myredeemedsoulrejoices.com/2009/10/much-not-everything-but-much-of-what-ive-learned-in-life-i-learned-from-britains-got-talent.html
Happy Halloween you biking machine
Posted by: Lowell | October 31, 2009 at 01:36 PM
Thanks for the great post, Lowell! And I've added you to the TypePad beta team. Have fun with Chroma! :)
Posted by: Ginevra | November 02, 2009 at 03:58 PM