Bio: Ann Handley
Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs -- which means that she heads up All Things Content on the MarketingProfs Web site and is the Primary Caregiver of this blog, the MarketingProfs Daily Fix. She also blogs at The Huffington Post as well as her personal blog, Annarchy.
Prior to that, she was the co-founder of ClickZ.com.
Even before that, she was a longtime freelance journalist writing on everything from local politics to babies to travel to start-ups and banking and humor. (And sometimes, several topics at once.) She wrote regularly for the Boston Globe as well as a million (give or take) mainstream and trade publications. She wasn't discerning -- the truth is, she wrote for anything that would put bread in her jar.
She received a Bachelor of Communication and Bachelor of Arts in English at Simmons College, Boston, and currently lives near Boston with her family and four dogs (long story).
Loves: cooking, sweet potato chips, sitting on a beach with a really good book. Hates: Writing about herself in the third person. Aspires to: Someday write for the New Yorker.
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Posts by Ann Handley:
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Dumb Is the New Smart,
04 Oct 2006 in Featured Posts
Humor can deliver a sharp prod to action. As Mark Twain said, “The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter”….
Borat (the comic character, and soon the movie) makes its points by seeming to embrace racism, sexism, homophob…
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Four Questions About Blogging, Career & Content,
25 Sep 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts
Blogger Kevin Hillstrom publishes an occasional series of short Q&A interviews with interesting people he run across in the blogosphere. This week, he chats it up with me….
Check out Kevin’s post, in which I do my best to answer Kevin’s “Four Que…
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From Guru to Guru Barbeque,
20 Sep 2006 in Featured Posts& Website Development and Design
Allen Weiss President and Founder of MarketingProfs.com, published a post here titled Thought Leaders & Gurus: Too Big for Their Niches….
Allen wrote, “My sense is that all of this thought-leader stuff is really just for selling something. The sa…
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Pet Peeves,
20 Sep 2006 in Customer Relationships& Featured Posts
My friend Eileen has a grey striped cat named Nimbus, whose greatest joy is to hunt in the backyard woods and drop his offerings at her back door….
Yesterday, he had brought a freshly slain chipmunk, and placed it lovingly on the doormat, its lit…
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Quick Fix News,
13 Sep 2006 in Featured Posts& General Management
Here’s what’s happening with some Daily Fix contributors these days….
* Ted Page’s agency, Captains of Industry, is launching what he calls the Web’s first bilingual interactive video advice column: the “Ask Dr. Clark” show.
“Ask Dr. Clark” inclu… -
To Err Is Human (But Then What?),
12 Sep 2006 in Customer Relationships& Featured Posts& General Management
Last week, MarketingProfs produced a terrible error in our own email marketing campaign….
As part of a segmented test to the MarketingProfs newsletter subscriber list, we had planned to mail seven different messages to entice MProfs subscription …
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8 Writing Tools,
06 Sep 2006 in Content& Featured Posts
My two kids went back to school yesterday. And the Chex Mix of their unique genetic makeup revealed itself again in their very different approaches to school readiness….
My teenage son pulled his messenger bag out from somewhere deep in his close…
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mack Collier,
01 Sep 2006 in Featured Posts
This week’s profile of Mack Collier reveals a little about Mr. Community: the man behind the Top 25 Marketing Blogs list as well as his 100 CDs for 100 Bloggers initiative….
This series of mini-interviews is an attempt to bring you the personali…
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Dick Cavett: The Original Blogger,
31 Aug 2006 in Blogging& Content& Featured Posts
My 14-year-old son, born in 1991, is certain he was born two decades too late. So, lately, he’s been bringing himself up to speed on the culture of the 1970s: the music (The Doors, Grateful Dead), the literature (Gore Vidal), events that defined the…
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We’re #9!,
30 Aug 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts
Hi Daily Fix aFIXionados. I’ve been hunting around online for giant “We’re #9!” foam fingers, but surprisingly our super-competitive culture doesn’t extend that far into the numeric range–.
Regardless, the cause for foam-finger wagging is tha…
