It’s been awhile since I’ve had some solid time to write anything of note here, but I figured this was a good time. Thought I would update all of you with the news that I’ve left my agency gig at MWW Group, and have joined MTV. I’ll be working with the awesome MTV Press team, where I’ll be building on my PR and marketing roots and applying my social media skills. You’ll probably see me working on biz press, ad sales, metrics, and digital news, of which the company is doing a ton of pretty awesome things that I’m excited to see first-hand.
It’s a great opportunity to be a part of something very awesome. I’ve always had a thing for MTV as it’s pretty synonymous with my generation’s interest in television, from way back when we had a console TV and this Jerrold box to control our cable. Combine that with my interest in media that came to life via a few blogs I’ve been a part of (not to mention the ones I read on a daily basis – Lost Remote and Rexblog, I’m looking at you) over the last few years, and you’ve got a great mix.
I’ll still be blogging here and a few other places, and am not sure what my current plans are for The Media Drop. I’d hate to put the kibosh on it, but I can’t say that I have the ability to dedicate a certain amount of time that it deserves, and frankly a whole lot of things I’d be writing would probably be somewhat conflicted, and I’d rather not leave readers looking for more than I can crank out.
In any case, it was great having exposure to a lot of great people, awesome clients, and some irreplaceable experiences for the last (just about) three years, and I’m psyched to be starting a new chapter, especially somewhere that I’ll be able to learn a ton and be able to apply almost all of my career experiences to my day-to-day. I’ll take a minute and throw some special thanks to all the fine folks that gave me an awesome shot in starting off a digital media team at a bigtime PR firm (you know who you are), and the teams, clients, and other shops who I was able to work with. In addition, I’ve been able to become great friends with some very cool people, like Josh, Jeremy, Chris (who I had on my team for 2+ years), John (who I had on my team for about a year), Phil, Mike, Dave, and a slew of others that I’d probably get busted down to a PR of 0 for link farming if I continued linking to. You know who you are and I probably owe you all a beer or two.
I’m still reachable at all the usual email addresses, IM accounts, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and so on, so don’t worry about needing to track me down.
Feel free to look me up the next time you’re in the Times Square area, and you can buy me a coffee. Okay, okay, I’ll buy.