Do you remember the movie, “Revenge of the Nerds?”
It was 1984. I was in college and I laughed so hard the tears rolled down my face and my sides ached. Though I was never a jock nor was I a nerd, I was caught somewhere in between. But I remember some quote (that I couldn’t find the exact one when I googled Revenge of the Nerd quotes) about Nerds ruling the world someday. But you get my idea.
Has the millennia morphed the lovable nerd into today’s computer geek? Are you feeling that maybe the things you do best or the things you like to do most are disappearing and being replaced with folks that don’t speak the same language that you do or perhaps don’t want to talk WITH you at all? That “IT” guy that uses big words makes your eyes glaze over and you think, “HELP! End this, PLEASE!”
Don’t give up, do what you are good at. As I mentioned earlier, I am somewhere in between the nerd world and the jock world, but now I have heard people refer to me as “a creative type.” Well, when I think of a “creative type” I cringe. I picture me as an old hippie drifting down Central Street in my wrap around Indian print skirt, a tie-dye t-shirt and some bad sandals.
I wonder what nerds or geeks think when they are referred to as such?
I started poking around in some blogs today and came across one from Brett Slater, of Slater’s Garage. He was talking about exercising your creative muscle. It is a good one that makes you feel better about the occasional off the wall idea, or outburst you may have. I also found this woman named Shannon on my Twitter and she wrote an article on her blog called “Is everyone in PR wearing the same dress? “
I loved this post. Though she is a lot younger than I am, I completely agreed with what she said. Here she is from Detroit, MI and I learned from her without buying a book or going to a conference! Pretty GROOVY! (That’s one for the hippies!)
I am thinking us “social-ites” that have been long doing the social things - some fun, like cocktail parties, business after hours, receptions, volunteering and some not so fun, funerals, hospital visits, weddings, showers (whoops!) are quickly becoming “social networking - outcasts” and need to make sure we embrace the new ways of learning and socializing, because “The Beat Goes On!”
Happy July! Today we’re happy to announce datAvenger 4.3, the latest version of our full-featured content management system datAvenger. In this latest release we’ve focused our efforts on text page editing (known as Standard Content to dA users). We wanted to incorporate some of the feedback we’d received from our clients and make editing as straight-forward as possible.
You may notice that the toolbar in the Standard Content editor looks a bit different. Don’t worry… all of your buttons are still there. We’ve reorganized the toolbar so that most formatting functions are on the top row and more advanced functions are on the bottom.
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