Send Message
Add to network
Make an introduction
Give Referral
Send Compliment
BookmarkBlatant self-promotion (no - not me - Julia Allison)
If you haven't read this article in Wired, here's the link: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/16-08/howto_allison?currentPage=all
After all the BizJam sessions, most of us are just figuring out how to capitalize on social media to get our business noticed: Julia has it down pat.
An excerpt: Allison is the latest, and perhaps purest, iteration of the Warholian ideal: someone who is famous for being famous. Like graffiti writers who turned their signatures into wild-style gallery pieces, she has made the process of self-promotion into its own freaky art form. Traditionally, it takes an army of publicists, a well-connected family, or a big-budget ad campaign to make this kind of splash. But Allison has done it on her own and on the cheap, armed only with an insatiable need for attention and a healthy helping of Web savvy.
"She used this medium and became unstoppable," says Choire Sicha, former managing editor of Gawker. "She just made it happen in a way that seemed seamless and kind of magical
Enjoy or just wonder if she has another life (that's a Northwest person speaking, currently at home looking at my garden, raccoons, birds, in shorts & a ragged T-shirt)...
