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Change the World

Don Martelli
Personal

Here's the old crew from my former agency. Scotty, as usual, with a big smile on his faceThis week I got the horrible news that a former colleague of mine, Scott Emberley, passed away after losing a battle with cancer.  I worked with Scott for nearly six years at my former PR agency and after I left, we remained friends off and on.

Scott was a funny guy that infected everyone he came in contact with via his wit, smarts and sheer love of life. He was a ball of energy and always came to the party with a slew of jokes that would just make your belly hurt as if you were doing a million crunches.

Through Scott, I learned a lot about the creative side of the PR/Advertising/Marketing business; things like project management, blue lines, hierarchy of content, critical path, etc., etc. -- all the buzz words that came from the advertising side of the business (being that I'm a PR traditionalists to a certain extent).

Unfriending is 2010's Version of the Diss

Don Martelli

Diss-like Facebook Friends?With 400+ million people on Facebook, it's just a matter of time that segments of your life will intersect. Your friends will interact with your co-workers; your clients will interact with your high school buddies; and, the people you barely talked to in college are all of a sudden BFF's with your family.

So, as 400+ million people will attest to, Facebook is now a potluck of friendships.

I have nearly 600 "friends" on Facebook, and to be honest, I interact frequently with about 10% of that group. I'm sure it's the same for you as well.

With the volume of people we are friending vs. the amount we actually interact with, issues that happen in real relationships can bubble over into online relationships, and ultimately, exposing some ugliness of people you know, you work with, are associated with, etc.