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"Melissa Waggener-Zorkin posts on our Thinkers and Doers blog (sample post: http://thinkersanddoers.waggen......) But you make a good point and we will be doing more in 2010. -Jeremy Meyers Experience Producer, Waggener Edstrom" - Jeremy Meyers

"nthing meditate. For those without experience with it, try pushing your chair back from your desk, putting your hands in your lap, closing your eyes and just breathing. As thoughts pop into your mind, let them, and keep in mind that by noticing thoughts you are not defined by them, because you are the entity noticing them. Also, whatever it means to you to practice gratitude, do that. It will help you in life and business." - Jeremy Meyers

"Wait...we didn't have lunch in August, did we? ;)" - Jeremy Meyers

@hootmama: "i am not on ny time but I do love this song by Chris Mann... " - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

"I wonder if the author has any statistical basis for claiming that millenials dont 'get' vinyl. This sounds a lot like a "these kids today dont appreciate real music!", which I have not found to be the case. In fact, much of the music released on vinyl these days is targeted for a younger audience (indie, emo, etc). I agree that the experience of vinyl is so important. It is the last format of music where the ritual involved made it more than just a 'storage receptacle for the music', and i think there will always be a population of people who can appreciate it. This is one of the first generations of people who share musical tastes with their parents, and 20-somethings these days tend to have much more varied tastes than even 25 or 30 years ago. Music like water is the future, but that doesn't mean we can't still connect with formats that still resonate emotionally." - Jeremy Meyers

"Hey Brian- This is so important, and so well put. I think what you're really talking about here is gratitude. Gratitude is the most powerful of emotions, it is literally life-changing. I'm very grateful to have you in our little community of communicators!" - Jeremy Meyers

"I’m grateful to have someone as kind, intelligent and wonderful as you in my life and to be able to call you a good friend is an honor. Give yourself some credit for your circumstances too, girl! You brought all this into your life." - Jeremy Meyers

Lest you think Tears for Fears only wrote happy pop ditties, "Woman in Chains" is epic and lovely. SO underrated. - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

"Really interesting point, Julian. The nature of the web can make us all susceptible to valuing “the next thing” over “this thing”. That’s why it’s so important to remember to slow down a little. The point is to ingest information and respond when you have something to say, not to click around as much as possible. The point is to live life as it happens and respond appropriately, not to get to the next thing as quickly as possible." - Jeremy Meyers

"A couple of points here (great post) - As a consumer, I dont want to be friends with a brand. But that’s not really what connecting via social media is. A brand is a collection of people. What I want is for a brand to care enough about a potential interaction between me and them that they have a person dedicated to engaging me with an awesome experience. Do I want @Starbucks to console me if I break up with my girlfriend? No. But if Brad and I have had enough interactions that lead to me trusting him to enrich my experience with my Starbucks touchpoints (be it with deals, ‘inside information’, RTing something I said that’s relevant, and I post something about being single again, and Brad @s or DMs me to offer condolensces (and hey, maybe he gives me a link to a coupon for a free hot chocolate to drown my sorrows), that’s relationship building and you can bet I’m not going to Dunkin Donuts that day. It’s about relationships between people, and if one represents a company and can offer..." - Jeremy Meyers

"Not making a decision is a decision as well." - Jeremy Meyers

The best cover of all time? i think maybe. - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

"I just blogged about this very subject, in a post called “the toxic myth of us vs them”. Thinking of ourselves as separate from others makes it easy for us to judge and make assumptions based on very little evidence, and is actually the opposite of community building. Once we realize we’re all in this together and that there is no ‘them’, huge changes can happen." - Jeremy Meyers

"You’re right of course, but I can understand his concern especially if his new company is at all Social Media involved (This guy we just hired is connected to all these recruiters? he wants out already?). A better way to deal with it if it came up is to, you know, tell the truth ." - Jeremy Meyers

@emilyspearl about 4:50 in - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

Everybody gather round! - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

Always forget how much i dig this song. Would totally have spun it in the goth clubs. - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

Did you know Journey has songs other than 'dont stop believin'? Great track for a rainy night. - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

"That's why you gotta always be the first to comment! ;)I agree with your sentiment, and always try to add something (even if it's just something small) to the conversation.Actually I'd be really interested in any kind of data as to tone, keywords or style that drive a higher number of comments than others.Chris' blog is home of idolatry, but there are some good comments there too, and he is good at responding to the ones that add value without seeming like he's ignoring the others." - Jeremy Meyers

"For me, it’s helpful to think of transparency in visual terms. In the past there has been an insurmountable brick wall between customers and companies, and the occasional lob of information from one side or another. What we’re asking for, nay +requiring+ is not necessarily to be shown the back rooms where the sausages are made, but at least to replace the wall with a glass one thats lower, so we can shake hands." - Jeremy Meyers

"For me, it’s helpful to think of transparency in visual terms. In the past there has been an insurmountable brick wall between customers and companies, and the occasional lob of information from one side or another. What we’re asking for, nay +requiring+ is not necessarily to be shown the back rooms where the sausages are made, but at least to replace the wall with a glass one thats lower, so we can shake hands." - Jeremy Meyers

"The thing to remember is that not getting any responses is in itself a response, and really highly valuable data." - Jeremy Meyers

@vanillabean45 <3 that album... "Please Forgive Me" is my fave tho - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

"You can only be yourself, everyone else is taken. "I wish i was more..." sometimes implies "but i could never be", which is just not true. You can be anything you like, and if it is true to who you really are deep down, it will not seem foreign or 'weird' or unnatural. So try something new, just once...see how it feels. You could always just not continue." - Jeremy Meyers

"Maybe "not yet" is even too close to no. In fact, there's a post about it on illuminatedmind. What about something like "Yes, in time."" - Jeremy Meyers

Hey @johnlaroquette, have you heard this live version of Old Love? SO amazing. - Jeremy Meyers from Blip.fm

"Very nicely done!And many of these are in the Buddhist tradition. All the love, joy and peace you need in life is already contained within you. Connecting with it increases our ability to connect with those around us, and see ourselves and each other for what we truly are: Beings who want to love and be loved, and be understood, and are doing the best that we can in this moment.We can't change the past and we can't control the future. All we have is right now. This moment. This here-ness.The line about "We live in a world of demands that aren’t easily navigated, and we can get lost in those demands and forget who we are and what we deserve in the process." resonated to me as being lost in our thoughts and emotions, which are what our brain creates in order to process experience, rather than experience itself. Getting lost in these thoughts, and attached to them, is the root of all suffering.As described in the texts: "This is the noble truth of the origin of suffering: it is this..." - Jeremy Meyers

"*walks past @cspenn's grave* Dammit, now I'll never know what that <140character perl script that saves companies millions is!" - Jeremy Meyers

"Oh I absolutely believe that content creators and especially artists should be paid for their work, but having spent a decade in the music industry, the pitiful amount that actually ends up in artists pockets at the end of the day from a 'legal' digital music sale is miniscule enough as to just be insulting, if it ever gets to them at all. More artists should have paypal donation boxes on their websites." - Jeremy Meyers

"An interesting point, Dr. Mani. It’s valuable to be able to separate celebrity influence on its own from the people behind the ‘celebrity’ and their actions and motivations and passions. It’s not whether you’re famous or not, it’s what you do with the time you have." - Jeremy Meyers

"I agree that there is confusion between ‘influencers’ and ‘enthusiasts’. I’m wondering whether there is as much of a difference as you claim. Do influencers become influencers because of their enthusiasm? is there a tipping point where we ‘graduate’ from enthusiast to influencer? Can you be one without the other?" - Jeremy Meyers