I’ve been thinking about this for a while.  Tried cutting back on Group/Business twitter followings, even considered opening a new twitter account and starting from scratch.  But after reading my friend Jane George’s AMAZING POST yesterday about unfollowing folks and trying to use Twitter for real I did something drastic.  I unfriended people.  Yep.  After years of building a following I went through and viscously culled. Why did I do this?  Well, because the format wasn’t working for me any more.  I tried lists to separate people out so I could read posts, I tried hootsuite and all kinds of other programs, but nothing I...

Moving to a new city has lead to the inevitable, what do you do, who do you work for game.  Around here, it seems to be less about status than it was in DC.  No one so far really cares who I know, but it does give a frame of reference for people to catalogue you by.  I get it.  It’s human nature to catalogue by gender, race, occupation.  As long as we don’t let it influence our level of respect for a person, it’s a very normal thing.  None-the-less, I find the hardest question to be “What do you do?” Well I’m an accountant.  Sometimes.  But I’m not doing book keeping any more.  Instead I spend that...