Social Honeycomb

Social Honeycomb Helps the Honey Bees

Back in April I posted about the Help the Honey Bees campaign from Haagen Dazs. After I posted, I went out looking for the special ice cream I had read about on their site that supposedly was the key to my helping out the bees. I couldn’t find it anywhere! Totally discouraged, I guess I put it out of my head and hoped that somewhere, someone was eating that bee-helping flavor.

Fast-forward (because life is a cassette tape) to a couple days ago in my local Shaw’s Supermarket where I picked up a pint of Haagen Dazs Orchard Peach Sorbet. I love peach-flavored treats, so I just grabbed it and went on my way. Cut to last night when I was indulging like a peach-addicted maniac, when I noticed I had purchased a pint of Help the Honey Bees sorbet! Social Honeycomb <3 Bees and Peaches. I explain (with Santogold- Creator playing in the background):

And here I am eating my sorbet, rambling about how I love the flavor of peaches and how good it feels to help the bees (ignore my laptop fan going crazy near the end):

P.S. I’m not drunk in either video.
P.P.S. Help the bees.

Do You Sound Like A Twitter Stream?

Me: Eww, it’s too hot out. I’m walking home and a bird is chirping so loud! Ugh, I’m so tired. My sleeves are kind of big today; they show I mean business.

G: OK…

Me: Oh my god. The way I talk in real life just turned into a Twitter stream. That’s not OK.

G: Baby, that’s sad.

Mashable Wants Your Twitter Bloopers

You’ve all probably sent a few DMs you would be horrified to see in your public timeline. Perhaps you’ve sent a personal tweet to the wrong person. Maybe, like me, you responded to a DM on your phone thinking you were just texting a friend back who said she had an “emergency” and needed your mobile number. And then a few random phone calls later, you realized… Whoops.

If you’ve done something like this, Mashable wants to know. Write a tweet with “twitterblooper” in it and confess your biggest Twitter blunder. Don’t be shy–I did it!

5 Products I Will Never Buy

I watch a lot of commercials and do my fair share of shopping. I see tons of products online, on TV and out and about in real life all the time. Here are 5 products I would never buy, because they’re dumb.

1. Crocs: I don’t care how comfortable they are–they look like the dopiest shoes on earth. I know in the past few months the company launched some new lines of footwear that was supposed to be more fashionable than their signature look, but I would never buy Crocs of any kind even if they looked exactly like Louboutins. Never.

2. Kinoki Foot Pads: Seriously, what? How could you even sell something like this?

3. Go-GURT: Yoplait’s Go-GURT grosses me out. What a disgusting, squishy idea for a snack. That stuff must not stay cold for very long, and warm yogurt has to be one of the worst concepts ever.

4. CDs: I think it’s funny when people own actually CDs nowadays. When I was 13, I wanted a million CDs and thought the coolest place on the planet was Newbury Comics. Not so much anymore. I would probably sooner buy a cassette just to be funny than buy a CD for any reason.

5. Clairol hair color: In August 2007, I used a dark brown Clairol hair color on my brown hair. I just wanted to take the brown a couple shades darker. It dyed my hair Elvira black and then foamed gray-purple in the shower for the next 10 days. Over the next couple months, the dye faded out of my hair in horizontally banded strips so I looked sort of like a cross between a tiger and a clown. When I spoke with Clairol’s customer service, they were absolutely not apologetic or kind to me and offered me only a reimbursement for the $9 I spent on the hair color. Absolutely terrible.

Thoughts?

I’m Back.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention the term “Internet Hatorade” per Matt McDonald‘s expert suggestion. It’s safe to say that I guzzled some major Internet Hatorade back in May. It’s out of my system now, thankfully.

I decided I hated the Internet for a couple weeks. I think I just needed a break from all this crazy stuff. Between being sick, then feeling tired from being sick and generally being in a pissy, anti-social mood, I was just like, “Eww, Social Honeycomb is gross. I hate you, Internet.” I don’t unplug enough (ever?), so it all hit me at once, and I took my break.
But I’m back. Hello, Internet. Can we be friends again?

But I’m Feeling Anti-Social!

When talking to a friend tonight about how sick I’ve been feeling lately, he asked, “Is there anything more than feeling sick? You are getting me worried–you haven’t even blogged for a while.”

It’s just funny how we become so immersed in the content we create and the communities where we participate, that if we don’t make some noise for a few days, people wonder where we go.

I’ve been feeling really sick for the past few days, and the extra energy I’ve had hasn’t really been going into Social Honeycomb.  And isn’t that part of the beauty of blogging?  I have no deadlines, no one to report to, no editorial calendar to contend with…  If I’m feeling like poo, I have the luxury of just being lazy about producing content.

I’m on my couch, watching the SYTYCD auditions and gagging at food commercials.  I’m going to be fine, but that’s what I’m doing while I’m feeling anti-social and sick-like.

Boo the conversation, boo participation, boo anything that requires more focus than just lying here doing nothing.

I’ll be back and nice when I’m healthy, yo.

Today’s Honey: May 8, 2008

As promised, Today’s Honey is the quilted leather edition. I can’t get enough of this, so I might just have to blog about handbags exclusively from now on. I honestly haven’t decided if that statement is serious or not yet.

Behold my favorite new purchase–the Burberry Montgomery bag in black:

Women dot Alltop dot Com

This isn’t really breaking news, but I wanted to do what I said I’d do: share that Social Honeycomb is part of the Alltop network. Guy Kawasaki is at it again, exciting people on the Web. If you haven’t checked out Alltop yet, you should take a look. There’s some really great content organized into a wide variety of topics (Get it? All topics? All the top stories?) on the site. For some unknown reason, Social Honeycomb made the cut and has a spot on the Women topic page.

So go, poke around, find something new… You know the deal. This is just another great way to find and join invigorating conversations.

Happiness

Everyone has bad days. Days when you question yourself and you feel like you just suck at life. I know I’ve been spending a lot of time blogging about communities on Twitter lately, but I have another example of this network coming together with kind words. I recently had an unhappy day and reached out to my community on Twitter, asking for inspiration and ideas about how to “happify” myself.

Susan Reynolds saw my happiness thread a couple weeks ago and requested that I write a post about the suggestions people had for me on how to feel happier each day. Here are my favorite responses:

@shonnoll says exercise

@thattalldude says listen to happy music

@mindchaotica and @linkedmn say to remember that things could always be worse

@cambeck says to become Joseph Jaffe

@iAlbert says to take a walk and be around nature

@geoffliving says happiness is an inside, spiritual job that external things can’t determine

@vanhoosear says learn to accept and let go

@podcastmama says to be kind to yourself, allow yourself to change your mind and get enough rest

@Paisano says to help people every day, engage in random acts of kindness and take naps

@jackvinson says to make a gratitude list

Building relationships and cultivating communities is central to our jobs as PR professionals and social media evangelists, and sometimes we get to see the strength of these social groups in ways that truly show how meaningful this stuff can be. Being a real person is SO important on the social Web. Asking, helping, advising, suggesting, being there for others. For me, I’m finding that being real and being happy go hand in hand.

If you have any suggestions of how to be happier, please post them in the comments section. Maybe we’ll all find some new ways to feel happier day-to-day.

Twitter, What Are You Doing?

Twitter has been a brat for the past couple days. I’m only getting a couple people’s updates, and I know I’m not the only one having problems. I feel so abandoned.

Boo, Twitter. You suck this weekend.