“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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1 Vibemetrix Daily Vibe - Happy Thanksgiving | VibeMetrix Blog // Nov 27, 2008 at 9:04 am
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2 Todd Smith // Nov 27, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Thanks, Beth. I’m also really thankful for my social media friends this year (you included). Happy Thanksgiving!
3 Amber Naslund // Nov 28, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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
4 Beth Harte // Nov 28, 2008 at 10:50 pm
@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!
5 Sonny Gill // Nov 29, 2008 at 4:08 pm
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?
6 Beth Harte // Nov 30, 2008 at 8:31 pm
@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!
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