starting july 19th, i’ll be the vice president for digital at a pr-firm based out of boston. (in the non-profit industry, they’re best known for their work on american cancer society’s more birthdays effort, which is more or less the gold standard for a cause-based marketing campaign right now.)

on the off chance you have questions, here are some answers in no particular order:

• no, we’re not moving — the firm’s headquarters are in boston, which means i get to visit often, but their digital team is are all based in DC as it gives them access to a lot of the government/non-profit/corporate clients they have and hope to grow.
• no, i won’t have to wear a suit and tie — i wore a tie for my interview with the president/ceo and was ribbed mercilessly for it. during my final interview, my direct boss was wearing flip-flops.
• yes, my wife and i will now be competitors in the same field — and, yes, i’m not sure that’s such a good idea either because i know how competitive she gets too.

so, i’m everything you’d imagine right now — i’m excited, i’m terrified. mostly, i just want to launch one last campaign for the Conservancy (more soon) and then hit the ground running.

it’s such a great opportunity, and sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun — albeit, a lot of work, too.

in an odd coincidence, the above photo was featured as the Daily Nature Photo on my.nature.org this week. in an even stranger coincidence, it’s the first time i’ve ever been featured on the site even though i conceived/built/launched it myself.

it’s just more proof that good things happen all at once.

my team is the only group on our floor that’s decorated their cubes this year — and once again we’ve totally out done ourselves. the theme this year was “white trash” and i think i can safely say that we knocked it out of the park we’re just plain awesome.

i’m itching partly because i’ve heard such great things, and partly because i don’t have a good track record with meeting my “C”-level executives so i want to get it out of the way.

see, when i first started at my current gig i met the then CEO … on my second day … in the 2nd floor bathroom.

it was awkward as hell, and over the next four years he proceeded to introduce himself to me each and every time he saw me, never once remembering that we had met before.

about three years ago we got another CEO and about a month into his tenure i met *him* for the first time … in the 4th floor bathroom.

it was awkward as hell, and I haven’t really talked with him since.

so it was with GREAT relief that i made it to the conference (which our new CMO is leading/attending) without any untimely meetings in a bathroom back in the worldwide office.

it just so happens that i met our new CMO this morning … in the bathroom of conference center … while i was actively using the, er, facilities.

it was awkward as hell.

no word yet on if we’ll ever speak again.