Gratitude
“One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This quote truly sums up this Thanksgiving holiday for me. I am thankful for my family and friends as they are my life.
I am also very thankful for the social media community (you know who you are!!) and how you have embraced and accepted my passion for marketing, communications, PR and social media.
I am truly grateful, but what works for me this holiday season is paying in kind somewhere else. And hopefully I can do that by creating content that makes someone’s job a little bit easier or stretches their brain a bit and by sharing the brilliance of others. In return, I am the recipient of thought provoking and engaging conversations (on- and off-line) and wonderful friendships. I am continually amazed everyday how my world keeps getting smaller and smaller!
This Thanksgiving, how are you “pay[ing] ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life?”
Wishing you, your families and your friends a lovely Thanksgiving!
Beth
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Thanks, Beth. I’m also really thankful for my social media friends this year (you included). Happy Thanksgiving!
By now you’ve heard me say this, but I’m eternally grateful for our friendship. To think we met on Twitter! Isn’t that funny? And I feel as though we’ve known each other for ages.
Thank you for your friendship, support, humor, brilliance, sage advice, and warmth. If I can never, ever prove another thing about social media ROI, I’ll have proved that you can find a true friend via these crazy interwebs. You rock, girl.
A
@ToddSmith, thanks new friend! Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
@AmberNaslund, I am still amazed we met on Twitter. I guess I’ll cave in and say ‘okay, it’s viable.’
Kidding, of course. I learned that a while ago.
So glad that we are friends. And by the way, we will, one day, prove ROI (Return on Involvement)…wait, I think we just did. Let other companies take a lesson from us!
You should know by now that I think you ROCK and am thankful to have met you, on Plurk/Twitter and IRL in Arizona!
You’re quite the spark plug and are going to go a long ways in this crazy SM world. Don’t let anybody hold you back from that
Sonny Gill’s last blog post..what makes a great community manager?
@SonnyGill, why thank you Sonny! It’s been so great to know you as well and I’m glad that we met in AZ. You have all the makings of a wonderful social media or community manager and any company would be lucky to have you!