I just got back from a great trip. I attended four very different conferences in four days all in my timezone! An IT governance course in Vancouver, Filene i3 in San Francisco, FinovateSpring in San Francisco and the National Cooperative Grocers Association Marketing Matters in Portland.

I received a Twitter direct message from Matt Hawkins today letting me know there was a mystery video in my Dropbox. Matt does a bunch of freelance video production for us and it turns out that he secretly recruited three of our Young & Free Spokesters to create a special birthday gift for Cheryl Wiens in our office.

​Before corporate marketers (including me) took over and commercialized the social web, there was Ze Frank – my creative Internet superhero. If you need to get up to speed on all things Ze Frank, watch this TED Talk. If you do hit play, you will laugh and cry in the next 18 minutes.