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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The Value of 990 Links,
12 Jul 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts
It’s a happy day here at the MarketingProfs Daily Fix: the great Technorati gods have finally updated our links and rank, showing after three months of publishing that this blog has garnered 990 links from 467 sites….
Prior to yesterday, the Tech…
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Via Print and Podcast,
09 Jul 2006 in Blogging& Content& Featured Posts
Further evidence that mainstream media is giving blogging a big group hug came last Monday, July 3…
…when while on vacation in southern Maine I picked up a copy of the Boston Globe to find my “blogging lies” post featured in Maura Welch’s “Busi…
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How (and Why) to Make Your Business More “Conversational”,
29 Jun 2006 in Featured Posts
Are you trying to figure out how to help your company “join the conversation”? Or figure out just why you need to in the first place…?
Amy Gahran points to an excellent article Steve Outing wrote in yesterday’s Editor and Publisher Online. At fir…
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What’s the Biggest Lie About Blogging?,
29 Jun 2006 in Blogging& Content& Customer Relationships& Featured Posts& Website Development and Design
It’s been 3 months since this blog launched. And the learning curve …. as for any new venture …. has been steep as Kilimanjaro….
Which was surprising. For some reason, I was under the ridiculous impression that launching a blog and buildi…
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Hundreds of Friends, but No One to Talk to?,
26 Jun 2006 in Blogging& Customer Relationships& Featured Posts& Website Development and Design
I was talking to my pal Mike Wagner today. In passing he mentioned that a good number of his reader comments come from folks in Europe. “So I can’t complain that I’m stuck in Des Moines, Iowa any more. With my blog I’m not stuck anywhere,” Mike said….
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What Does a Blog Award Mean?,
21 Jun 2006 in Blogging& Content& Featured Posts
In the past day, I’ve gotten 10 emails from various writers asking me and their other friends to vote…
…for them in the current MarketingSherpa Reader’s Choice Blog & Podcasting Awards.
To those nominees who have contacted me: You know I love … -
The New “Top Five” Newsletter,
15 Jun 2006 in Blogging& Content& Featured Posts
Many moons ago, perhaps, some of you signed up to receive a weekly Top Five newsletter from us here at the MarketingProfs Daily Fix….
But blogging being what it is, life’s been a little, well… insane, interrupting the planned delivery schedule …
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Is 18 the New 8?,
13 Jun 2006 in Featured Posts& Mobile Marketing
Yesterday, Verizon launched a new cell-phone service that will chaperone your kids (and alert you if they wander beyond a perimeter that you set for them, writes Poynter’s Al Tompkins….
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe ast week ran a piece about how s…
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How I Invented Blogging,
12 Jun 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts
When I was a kid growing up in the ’70s, and my parents’ friends would ask me the inevitable question, “So, what do you want to be when you grow up?” I would look them square in the eye and say definitively, “I want to be a blogger”….
Well, that’…
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From the Digital Divide to the Participation Gap,
31 May 2006 in Academia/Training& Blogging& Featured Posts
Marion Walton points to an interesting and sensible conversation about MySpace between UC-Berkeley PhD student danah boyd and MIT’s Henry Jenkins….
In her post, Marion mulls over some related yet compelling issues:
* If calls to restrict access …
