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Ready For Reinvention?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

This Saturday in San Francisco, I’ll be part of a “panel of career professionals who will provide practical tips, advice, tools and some useful forecasts for navigating the new creative marketplace.”
And if I can get Lemonade done before then, I’ll even be screening it for the attendees.
So if you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, [...]

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On Unemployment And Manhood

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Recently, Tom Matlack invited me to write a featured essay for The Good Men Project website. If you haven’t heard about it yet, The Good Men Project is a book, DVD, web site, and touring event that is trying to shed a light on modern manhood. I just started reading the book yesterday, and so [...]

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Some Cool Recent Press For PFTA & Lemonade

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Check out this clip from Boston’s View on WCVB – Boston’s ABC affiliate.

As well as this blurb in Boston Magazine.

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A Cast Of Experts And Me On The BeanCast

Monday, October 5, 2009

I somehow got invited to sit on the BeanCast panel with Spike Jones (Brains On Fire), Bill Green (Make the Logo Bigger), and George Parker (AdScam). In between barbs about Parker’s Kindle, I think I got in a few coherant points.
Listen on the web here. Get the podcast here.
SIDENOTE: My biggest success on the show [...]

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Daily Scheduled Columns & Events

Monday, August 31, 2009

As with most advertising creatives, committing to a regular schedule does not come naturally to me. So what I’m about to commit to feels a little funny. (Then again, entrepreneurism in general feels unnatural, so why stay in my comfort zone now? )
From now on, there will be something resembling a schedule to Please Feed [...]

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Kick The Tires On The New PFTA Beta

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

At long last, the beta for Please Feed The Animals is up and running for your experimentation. Some initial known issues:
•Pleasefeedtheanimals.com still points you to the blog during the beta phase, while beta.pleasefeedtheanimals.com will take you to the career site
•The home page still needs a couple of tweaks. Mainly, the RSS feed of the blog [...]

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So Close, I Can Taste It

Thursday, August 20, 2009

We are mere days (hours?) away from launching the beta for the new site.  In the short term, http://pleasefeedtheanimals.com will still point you to the blog. But anyone who is currently active on this site will be asked to register onto the beta (which will probably be something like beta.pleasefeedtheanimals.com) to start uploading their bios, [...]

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Guest Post For The Boston Ad Club

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The following is an excerpt from my guest post on Boston Ad Club’s blog. Click here to read it in its entirety.
What Real World Are You Living In?
By Erik Proulx
With every new crop of ad school graduates, you can practically hear the collective moan of creative directors [...]

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Animal Events In San Francisco And Minneapolis

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

San Francisco Animal Social
Tuesday, August 18th from 7-10 PM
Swig Bar  http://www.swigbar.com
San Francisco Animal Kelly O’Connell, on her own behalf and with no prompting from me, is hosting an Animal Social next Tuesday, August 18th. Ideas will be shared. Mugs will be hoisted. This is what it’s all about, folks. If energy does not [...]

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Oprah, You’re Next

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Seems the idea (it’s only still a trailer at this point) about people who reinvent themselves after a job loss is striking a chord these days. Here are just a few of the media outlets that are discussing Lemonade. Oprah, call me. 617-359-8159.
Fast Company
Looking Beyond the Pink Slips: Lemonade the Movie Offers Inspiration for Plan [...]

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