MOvember 2012 is Just Around the Corner

It’s time to start thinking about MOvember again.

MOvember is a month long fundraising event where men from around the world get together to raise money and awareness for men’s prostate cancer. How do they do it? Well they grow a mustache or mo all month long. But this year it’s a little different, we are also raising awareness of mental health issues.

I’m proud to be participating in my fourth year of this great cause. Again this year I join our company’s team called the Marketwire Sysomos Staches. We are proud to be participating this year. Last year our company matched our donations and we raised over $11,000. This year we are striving to beat those numbers and we can only do it with your support. So please help support me this year by donating to me personally or our team.

I’ll be updating throughout November on my progress. As usual I can’t look at myself in the mirror the first few days as I go from having a goatee to being completely clean shaven. I’m nervous as hell, but I know it’s for a great cause!

The Word is Out – New Position at Work

Ok, ok, so the word might not be “officially” out yet, but I do have a new position at work. Before I tell you what it is, I should you bring you all up to speed.

I work for Marketwire, a communications solution company. We handle many clients from publically traded companies, private organizations, not-for-profits, and government. Currently I work as a Client Relations Manager and manage several accounts that use our services from wire distribution, media management to social media monitoring. Our company has been going through a huge re-branding exercise and this past Friday we launched our new corporate brand; which I’m very excited about.

As such they needed someone within our organization to help talk about the corporate brand, but talk about it internally and document our employees throughout the year. Thus they created a new role within or organization known as the Internal Brand Ambassador. I will be assuming that role later this month and I’m very excited about it.

As it is a very new role for both the company and myself, it will be up to me to really create the role and make it an important part of who we are as a company. We have always prided ourselves that the people within our organization is what makes us so successful and we are going to bring that and show it to the world moving forward.

The role will have me travelling more throughout North America and the UK to visit our offices while documenting them and highlighting our corporate culture. Even though my role is only for the year, I truly am hoping I can extend the role further and truly make everyone know what a great company Marketwire is and how it continues to evolve. Truly beyond words.