Katy Zack
East Villager by way of Detroit suburbs.
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Tweets
- http://t.co/vtoy9H9P - for when i have no other way to express what I want to say.
- I love when my email box has multiple messages just saying "sawheet". #itsagoodday
- The @VW Golf R Drivers Forever iPad app is the Mobile of the Day on @FWA. Congrats to the @AKQA team! http://t.co/jwXkkOgz cc @jeffersonloo
- @contagiouspaul Thanks to u & the rest of the @contagiousmag crew: @the2noelle @SarahRhiC @paryshnikov for feeding our U.S. brains.
- Woot! Shout out to @StarPlayer at #contagiousnnw. Example of augmented content that's better with the brand. Thanks @contagiousmag
- Fish where the fish are. #contagiousnnw
- The ghost of Kurt Vonnegut is reacting to @paryshnikov. Quoted about how everyone wants to build, no one wants to maintain #contagiousnnw
- @drelly I think your late 20s are the best time to be an independent gal in NYC. Relish the lessons you learn, experiences you have!
- 'hackathons are how marketing guys wish software were made' - @davewiner quoted by @paryshnikov at #contagiousnnw
- @holidaymatinee didn't realize you were at #contagiousnnw too! Let's meet during the break!
- @paryshnikov showed the #flydelta apps from @AKQA. Example of creating a service for consumers, w/ bag tracking functionality #contagiousnnw
- Social business = engaged, transparent, nimble. via @paryshnikov #contagiousnnw
- Prioritize experience over innovation #contagiousnnw Love that @contagiousmag showed a picture of a happy kid playing in a cardboard box.
- Amen Mt @porterbello: Tesco shopping app. May I please have this in nyc now please? Trader joes is ruthless on the weekends. #contagiousnnw
- @zseward wow! Exciting news! They are lucky to have you. Can't wait to see what you do next.
- Nix my previous statement. #contagiousnnw tweet stream is picking up. Think that the network is just a bit delayed.
- surprised how quiet tweet streams are w/ digitally savvy audiences. Is it a sign of real life engagement or something else? #contagiousnnw
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Posts
- Best promotion to stop #SOPA I’ve seen today. #heygirl
Hey girl. Censorship can ruin a magic moment. STOP SOPA.
Please call and write your representative.
- Great explainer on what a caucus means. Thanks @kopoint!
Produced for KoPoint Stories by Doc Stodden Political Director of KoPoint.
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This inaugural edition of the KoPoint Political Explainer covers everything you need to know about the Iowa Caucuses, including what is actually going on in Iowa tonight, who Ron Paul is, What are the major issues facing the potential winner of the General Election in November, what a conservative is, and why We should pay attention to Iowa. Voice credits include Doc Stodden, (Host) Mallary Allen, John Hansen and Victor Moses as supporting voices.Barry Goldwater also makes an appearance.
- Great infographic. Also check out the campaign from AKQA!
The response to Fast Company’s recent feature story, “The Case for Girls,” has been incredible. First, digital agency AKQA’s mock ad campaign became a real-life call to action and a mobilizing worldwide event. Now social media agency Lovesocial has announced a partnership with indie doc Miss Representation and reached out to Fast Company to create an infographic to illustrate the stats featured in our story.
Helpful. After seeing the neon pink script in the movie Drive, I’m not becoming more of a type geek.
- My Post-It Challenge
It’s been a great summer of relaxation, good friends, and a few adventures littered throughout. Though my life could hardly be described as boring, I’ve realized that I’ve found myself in a somewhat comfortable routine. My typical week involves about a nine-hour workday (more or less), catching up with friends at bars, wine-filled girls nights, great meals, nice walks, good fiction, and some gentle yoga and cardio exercise. I intersperse this with some weekends away and vacations a few times a year, but day-to-day, my life is pretty familiar. I’m definitely not complaining — I’m extremely lucky, incredibly grateful, and I know I have a wonderful life.
What I’m missing is a creative outlet. Instead of lusting over other cities to live in and travel to, I’m going to take NYC for all it’s got.
So here’s my plan: starting this week, I’m going to kick off the post-it challenge.
The post-it challenge will entail covering my under-utilized fridge with post-its of fun creative activities: cooking classes, piano lessons, taking up knitting again, writing for pleasure, sketching, and more. Some will be more in-depth endeavors (learn Python) and some will be one-off activities (like sketching with colored pencils in Tompkins Square Park).
My goal is to do at least 2 a week and document my experiences on Tumblr and on Google+.
Here’s where you can help:
1) Suggest some creative activities that one can do without a lot of time, money, or travel in NYC. Example: take a silks class at NY Trapeze School.
2) Join me. Are you interested in partaking in some of my mini-adventures, email me and let me know what you want to do and when you can do it.
3) Challenge yourself. Create your own post-it challenge and with a personalized to-do list of new creative activities and projects.Here’s a list of a feel initial ideas I have. Share yours!
I’ll post my covered fridge in the next few days. Here’s the before pic
What failure means. Thanks for the reminder @SapientNitro LA cc @ebrewer (Taken with Instagram at SapientNitro)
Great song and tribute!Sixties icon Ronnie Spector was a major influence on Amy Winehouse’s sound and visual style. They shared beehive hair, a talent for deep, smoky vocals, and tragically, a taste for trouble as they hit success.
Spector spoke to Rolling Stone about the sadness of seeing her troubled protégé go:
Amy came to my show in London about six months ago, and she was so shy. She was hiding behind somebody, but I could see the hairstyle, and I knew she was there. That was all I needed. When I sang “Back to Black,” I could see the tears in her eyes, and there were tears in mine.
Visit rollingstone.com to hear Spector cover Winehouse’s hit “Back to Black.”
- Ha, AgencySpy linked to my Twitpic of the #Adweekfail yesterday.
“My, Baratunde sure does look different in this week’s issue of Adweek.”
(Apparently someone did a Google Image search but went with the one picture that was a different black comedia.)
No way! No no, seriously!!?
WHAT! Okay, first…NOT Baratunde. Second, personally knowing all three of these people is kinda a trip.
You fill your brain with a lot during the day, but then kill a lot of brain cells at night. So it’s important to write everything down.
Jesus, this sounds so familiar. Hooray for startup jargon and bravado.
The irony is that we flock to the Internet for this type of safe, sanitized intimacy, but we want something entirely different.
Modern Love - Even in Real Life, There Were Screens Between Us - NYTimes.com
Great story about modern love in the digital age via @nytimes.
What I want for my birthday. So many applications of neurotech to map and understand underlying cognition. #biopsychmajor
No cursive, teach programming!
The SXSW Interactive Afterglow | AustinPost.org
My wise-ass wisdom during a conversation with Austin Post’s Karie Meltzer. P.S. she’s an awesome, super savvy gal trying to make it in the new media world — check out her other writings.
In a world where brands need new stewards and new thinking, where they need an explosion of creativity, an injection of technology, and a hint of new attitude, I think the world of communications, a world famous for throwing around the concept of the line, should heed advice from Cee Lo Green and “Forget the Line.
What makes you connect to a brand on social networks?Who wants to be friends with a brand?
