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I’ve put this off a few days, but have finally got a moment to write something coherent and hopefully not rambling… I just wanted to congratulate Chris Thilk on joining the team over at Voce. As some of you may know, I had the odd situation of being able to hire Chris twice, once at AdJab, and once at MWW Group, where he’d left shortly after I did during the summer of ‘08, so it’s kind of strange to actually be writing this. We’ve actually joked since our departure(s) that it was the longest we’d both gone without writing on the same blog together since like 2005 or something, and that’s kinda funny.

In any case, I know Chris is psyched to have joined up with Josh and Mike, and I’m really happy for him. As those guys have both stated on their individual blogs and on the Voce Nation blog, he certainly “walks the walk” more than he “talks the talk,” unlike a significant amount of “experts” in the world of social media these days. And yes, I’m taking a blind potshot here, because it would take me too long to call people out, IMHO.

Chris, like myself, isn’t into doing random-ass social media programs because they’re the flavor of the week / month / minute, and gets the one-to-one conversation while still being able to work hard to scale. It was great for me to work with him on both an office-based and Internet-only kind of level, as that certainly teaches you a lot about how people work, react to things happening halfway across a country, and so on. I know he’ll do a great job for the Voce crew, and it’s really cool to see that he’s taken an awesome step in his career, especially one where he gets to work with some of the highly legit people in the public relations and – and dare I say – social media space. It was a blast having him there to bounce stuff off (something I still do to this day, down to the ‘do i blog this or not?’ questions), and I’d like to say congratulations again, and good luck working with a guy who’s addicted to taking photographs all day. Oh, wait…