I have some news.

I've decided to make a change professionally; I will be leaving Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp and joining Red Tettemer in a similar social media position.

This move offers the best of both worlds to me; RT is an advertising agency of record for GPTMC and as such, I will still have opportunity to work on the Philadelphia "brand" that I am passionate about, including our insider-y Philadelphia campaign that includes the community blog uwishunu. I'll just be working on them from 3 blocks away.

I'll also have the pleasure of working with a collection of many of the most creative people I've had the pleasure of meeting. These are the people who brought you iMate just a few weeks ago, just for fun, and yes, those are their REAL employees.

It's been an educational and exciting year and a half working for GPTMC, the only non-profit organization I've known that is so teeming with talent and smarts that they are marketing on the same high level of Fortune 500 companies with 10x the budget.

I'll be at GPTMC for another week and then I'm taking some time off before joining RT on March 13th. Expect to see big things from Red Tettemer in the near future. I am going in with social media gunz a-blazing and we are going to make a lot of noise in the SM space.

BTW, I've been playing around with some ideas for my new title. Digital Revolutionary (Viva La Revolucion!)? Connections Strategist? Or Community Evangelist? I'm open to ideas! Bring it!

Officially, my favorite new widget, the Snoop Dogg "Shizzolate Your Twitters"! I am worshiping at the altar of Snoop's marketing team right now. Fo' shizzle, bizzle!

Hats off today to Doritos for taking a big leap of faith and into social media stardom by showing their sense of humor and supporting this "artist". Who woulda thunk Frito Lay could be so cool?

*Video may be NSFW.*

I'll be speaking here again soon. In the meantime, watch the attached video. This was my favorite show as a kid and I would sit indian-style in front of the tv everyday and stare up, enraptured with Carole and Paula and the chucklepatch. I loved the chucklepatch but my very favorite part of the "The Magic Garden" was singing along to this song at the end. In fact, to this day I often find myself singing it in my head when I'm walking around by myself.

My officemate suspects they may have indoctrinated me into a cult as a child via this program. I say thank God for being a child of the 70's. We need more flower power these days. Three cheers for nostalgia on the internet!