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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Top 10 Signs You Might Be Addicted to Blogging,
23 May 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts
David Armano and I met for the first time in the support group Bloggers Anonymous…
…but we’ve broken our code of confidentially and agreed to take our confessions public. Our goal here is not to embarrass or ridicule, but to help others like ou…
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Since When Do Women Have Nothing to Say?,
22 May 2006 in Blogging& Content& Featured Posts& Website Development and Design
Why don’t more women comment more on blogs…?
In the seven weeks since we launched the MarketingProfs Daily Fix, I’ve been reading a lot more blogs more closely. I’ve noticed an overwhelming number of male “commenters,” but far fewer female commen…
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Write As Rain,
16 May 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts
This post doesn’t have much to do with marketing, but it has everything to do with the way some of us have been working the past few days….
It’s been raining cats and dogs for the past five days in Massachusetts, and the Merrimack Valley–wh…
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Top 25 Marketing Blogs,
16 May 2006 in Blogging& Content& Featured Posts& Metrics & ROI
If writing is a solitary pursuit, blogging is decidedly not….
Unlike other forms of publishing, blogging is immediate and social, which means bloggers tend to make all kinds of contacts and meet all sorts of people online.
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Mom: The Original Brand Manager,
15 May 2006 in Branding& Featured Posts
Mike Wagner wrote a heartfelt valentine to Mom …. the original “brand manager” …. on his Own Your Brand blog. His own Mom, he says, in essence taught him…
…the fundamentals of brand ownership. Mike writes:
I can still hear her voice in … -
Blogs as Amateur Theater: The Land We Belong to Is Grand,
15 May 2006 in Blogging& Content& Featured Posts
I am a total sucker for community theater, especially musical theater, and especially middle or high school productions. What I love
…isn’t so much the corny show tunes or the predictable story lines, but the fact that the kids have such energy f…
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Creative, Visionary, and Kind to Pets,
12 May 2006 in Blogging& Buzz Marketing& Featured Posts& Website Development and Design
In this age of Web 2.0, what better way to stand out than to forego the job-search sites completely and pound the virtual pavement yourself…?
My friend Chris Clarke, who writes at StudentPR, landed himself a tasty position at the Ontario office o…
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Skimming Petty Cash (and Other Confessions),
04 May 2006 in Blogging& Featured Posts& Website Development and Design
Is your expense account occasionally a source of income?…
Have you ever walked into a conference through an unattended the door and billed your company for the admission? Did you leave one firm and take your clients with you?
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When Funny Isn’t Clever,
03 May 2006 in Advertising& Featured Posts
Philips missed an opportunity to be truly clever with the introduction of its Norelco Bodygroom shaver….
Sure, it’s risque. I guess Norelco gets points for pushing the envelope a bit.
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UPS Enhances Web Services for Global Biz,
02 May 2006 in News
MarketingVOX: To better facilitate global trade, UPS has enhanced several of its web-based technology tools, DM News writes (via MediaBuyerPlanner). UPS has updated “My UPS” on UPS.com to better serve small businesses, enhancing the number of servi…
