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Let Me Introduce Myself My name is Tommy Young and this is my little slice of digital landscape. I am 40 years young and live outside St. Louis, Missouri, but have lived in a number of places. I was born in southern Illinois, but then lived in Louisiana, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, DC, and now Illinois again (in that order). I’ve had a fun and varied life that just seems to get better and better each year. I played Division I golf, worked for and studied with the man who hired Walter Cronkite and fired Edward R. Murrow, walked large sections of the Appalachian Trial, ran a suicide hotline, and my parents swear I am the most photographed child in the world standing beside a cannon (my father’s PhD is in Civil War history). I spend my non-work hours playing golf, taking bad photos, mountain biking, reading, playing with my PS3/PS2/N64/Sega Genesis
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listening to music, and obeying the detailed instructions of my four cats. Prior to setting off on a freelance career I was the Vice President of Marketing for a virtual, web-based Application Service Provider (ASP) that sold high-end interactive marketing products and services (electronic newsletters, email marketing, and web meeting software). During the dot com bubble I was an Account Supervisor for KSK Communications (now a part of Earle Palmer Brown); a specialized ad agency focused on b2b high-tech clients. I was responsible for crafting marketing and strategic planning for high-profile new and existing clients, including Lucent Technologies, HP, PeopleSoft, Octel, and Unisys. Before that I worked at E. James White, one of Northern Virginia’s largest agencies, where I built the Account Planning department from scratch into a profitable and productive business unit. Before that role I was a Senior Account Executive that managed three of the agency’s largest clients for the $80M shop. Prior to joining E. James White, I worked as a market research analyst at INPUT and as an Account Executive at award-winning Elliott Van Deutsch (then MHI Communications, now Blattner Brunner), where I cut my teeth working on accounts such as AOL, EDS, Nortel, and the National Parks and Conservation Association. I have a Masters of Arts in Communications from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Communications from Western Illinois University. |
Idle Musings Since 1995 weBranding has been the primary place where I experiment and organize my thoughts online. However almost two years it morphed into my professional site. I felt it important to separate my personal site from my professional site, so Idle Musings was born under my name as the URL. Come on in and explore. weBranding Project Katrina Mandatory Elements for B2B e-Newsletters Enhance Lead Generation & Sales With e-Newsletters Conducting a Successful Webinar Six Simple e-Newsletter Publishing Tips Trust And Loyalty Go Hand-in-Hand Five Steps To Plan A Strategic e-Newsletter Program Tommy is also a frequent writer and commentator on the progressive political website Daily Kos. |
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