I’ve finally recovered from a long 24 hours of blogging for the 2008 blogathon. I’ve now had a much needed sleep, hot shower, lazy Sunday morning, and a nice lunch. I wanted to thank all of my friends for supporting me in this effort and generously donating money to the Lochmaddy foundation. The unofficial total raised was just shy of $1500 - the donation page is still live and any amount you can spare is greatly appreciated. That’s an amazing amount and will go a really long way to helping the small community in western Mali.

Over the 24 hours, I along with several colleagues at work and a special guest blog post from Tod Maffin managed to write 49 blog posts. You can read all of the posts at the Invoke blog and I’ve linked to the favorite ones that I wrote below.

Where Do You Get Your Inspiration

Tail of the Fail Whale and Open Distribution

Social Media and Self Importance: Are You Signal or Noise?

Tails of Being an Office Dog: Small Dog Edition - Really I like this one because it has a super cute pic of Kaiya

Research Before You Brand: The Story of 2 Chefs 1 Table

I am currently sitting on the floor of my friend Tod Maffin’s house, with 4 1/2 hours to go in the 24 hour blogathon.  I’m on the phone with my sister grabbing her credit card details to donate to the blogathon, when Tod snaps a pic of me and tweets ‘ @jennmae is on my living room floor calling people and shaking them down for Blogathon money! She’s filling their donation in over the phone’.

I thought the pic was really cute and perfectly reflects how I’m feeling at this point.

Hey all. Welcome to my first personal blog. I’ve blogged for work now for a couple years and have meant to do this for just about as long. I’d like to give a huge thanks to Colleen Coplick for helping me set it up and Nadia Nascimento for helping me come up the the domain name. I wanted Lather Rinse Repeat, but that was obviously taken and really I think that this is much better.

I’ll write about lots of different things and am not exactly sure if there will be a theme to what I write, I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Thanks for visiting me and I hope you come back soon:)

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