Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

Tomor­row I’m run­ning the Atlanta Half Marathon. Back in my early 20s I would have been much bet­ter pre­pared for this effort. I was a com­pet­i­tive cyclist and didn’t have the same job and fam­ily com­mit­ments I do today. In fact, the old me would prob­a­bly say that present me is ill pre­pared. So what […]

Image by neoni­hil via Flickr I’m writ­ing this from the set. I’m a day and a half into the pro­duc­tion of a series of infor­ma­tional videos for a B2B client. Trust me, if you’re not in the auto­mo­tive whole­sale remar­ket­ing busi­ness, you prob­a­bly won’t ever want to see them. And that’s totally fine. Over the […]

I’ve already posted on the 10,000 foot view, so I wanted to get at about what I actu­ally learned Blog­Well Atlanta. Andy Ser­novitz had some impor­tant points on ethics and dis­clo­sure. He out­lined dan­gers to a brand of not hav­ing clear, legal agree­ments with ven­dors act­ing on a brand’s behalf and opined that the new […]

Image by Rishi S via Flickr Why do peo­ple always say if you’ve had a par­tic­u­larly bad expe­ri­ence that you should “learn from it?” Do they really mean it? It’s not always pos­si­ble to grow from some­thing. Espe­cially if that bad expe­ri­ence lasts longer than say five min­utes. (I want to make it clear I’m not […]

Finally got my Wave invite and I have a first impres­sion. Google has made the case that Wave is what email would have been been had it been built with today’s tech­nol­ogy. But Google Wave strikes me more as a col­lab­o­ra­tion tool rather than a replace­ment for email. Frankly, I know a lot of people […]

As an agency pro­fes­sional, I really enjoyed Blog­Well. It pro­vided a great insight into how social media efforts are viewed, inte­grated, and deployed by big brands. There was a lot of learn­ing to be had from the indi­vid­ual pre­sen­ters which I’ll go into in a later post. But there were a few 10,000-foot view take […]

This was 7:30 AM. Just dropped off the girls and went for a short hike. Had nowhere to be for the rest of the day really. Tak­ing a deep breath today. Hope you have a chance for one too. Have a great weekend.

Well, that blows. Really, it does. I know a lot of peo­ple just like you. After all, the econ­omy is awful, so who would quit any job? Even if you’re severely over­worked. There have been days, where I’ve felt just like you. Thank­fully, it’s not per­sis­tent. For­tu­nately, my job is pretty diverse. Wasn’t always that way. […]