Well, hallo! This blog hopes to provide some insights gleaned from my years as an advertising creative director, copywriter, art director, teacher, parent, author, poet, and friend. Currently I’m a creative strategist — figuring out how to creatively solve problems of businesses through social media, communications and technology — and I’m so, so passionate about it. And, this just in, I’m now CEO of Good Men Media, Inc. which is the online publishing arm for The Good Men Project.
So, what is this blog ABOUT? It’s…about that really cool place where business and creativity and technology and art and communication and the future all collide. It’s the place I enjoy being more than anywhere in the world. Right at that vortex. The eye of the hurricane. Everything is going a hundred miles around me, but right in the middle, it’s a peaceful spot. I’d love if you could join me there.
Finally, please feel free to connect with me anywhere you can find me on the social web. Here are some places to start:
http://www.twitter.com/lisahickey If I could be a professional Twitterer, I would be. In fact, I almost was, once. Here you’ll find my carefully orchestrated combination of links to great articles, random musings, and conversational tidbits. People who know me know how much I love Twitter. As my friend Chris Brogan says: “I have a quite a few wonderful people who enrich my life. Twitter calls them followers.”
http://www.facebook.com/lhickey Facebook, well, you pretty much have to be “friends” of some sort with me to connect there. I don’t do random connections with people I don’t know. That said, it’s fairly easy to *become* friends with me. We simply have to connect over an idea or two, or share some values and talk about them. Comment a few times on this blog, or have a few conversations on Twitter, and surely we’ll become friends fast.
http://www.goodmenproject.org The Good Men Project is an extremely awesome “Project” that I am extremely lucky to be working on. It’s a collection of stories — published in a book, filmed for a movie, written in blog format, and built a conversation at a time on Facebook. As founder Tom Matlack describes it: “we’re trying to get guys to talk about the stuff they don’t usually talk about.” It’s all about what it means to be good, what it means to be a man, and the cool things that we can all build together based on this shared knowledge. Join in, become a fb fan, or just ask me about it.
http://lisahickey.tumblr.com This is a whole bunch of random stuff. But can you guess I love random! Mostly just links to stuff I find cool while trawling the web, little visual (sometimes written) reflections of pop culture — past present and future.
http://www.scribd.com/lisahickey Poetry, mostly. Yeah, poetry. But, before you go scurrying away a) it doesn’t rhyme and b) like most stuff I do, it tells a story c) my favorite line: “I lick my lips and taste gunpowder.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisa_hickey Lots of iphotographs, my new love. Mix of personal and visual observations of daily life. Like most of my stuff, eclectic, artsy.
http://www.lisahickeycreative.com My advertising portfolio (However, for the record, Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.)
DISCLOSURES: As I just mentioned, Good Men Media, Inc., is a company I own and profit from. This is separate from The Good Men Foundation, which is not-for-profit and which benefits at-risk boys and men. Straddling both of those is The Good Men Project, which is simply the brand name of all we are doing — the book, film, online magazine, blog, fan page, videos, discussions, events. A part of ALL proceeds go to The Foundation. A part of SOME proceeds go to running the for-profit media arm. Please see http://www.goodmenproject.org for more info.
Beyond that, for anything else I say online, I will try to be as transparent as possible. But the truth is, you should assume any product or service or person that I mention I am doing so because it might lead to wealth for somebody down the road somewhere. If you have a problem with that, please ignore what I say.
