This video features my friend Tessa, who is in the running to be the Ambassador of AOL Lifestream, a social networking aggregator site. Today is the last day to vote for Tessa, and if you haven’t done it yet, I encourage you to check out her video as well as the Ambassador of Lifestream website.
Who is Tessa? I got to be friends with Tessa in graduate school, when she first became the VP of Marketing for Zimride, UCLA’s social media-meets-ridematching carpool web product. Together, we rallied thousands of UCLA students to sign up and start carpooling.
Why vote for Tessa?
- She’s FUN! (Just check out the video)
- She’s SAVVY (She swiftly navigated college campuses to identify trendsetters and evangelizers)
- She’s SHARP (Harvard BA anyone?)
- She gets SOCIAL MEDIA (Zimride’s success was contingent on Tessa’s understanding of social media)
- She can go to bat with senior-level executives, which is key for AOL’s success in developing Lifestream into a mainstream product.
The Ofersures!
I used “Simple Simon Says” in my video but this whole album is so fun. Perfect road trip music. And The Ofersures are great guys! Check it out.
As the Ambassador for Lifestream, Tessa Petrich will work with Tim Armstrong to represent AOL both in the chat room and in the boardroom. But who said you can’t have a little fun along the way?
Nichele knows Tessa Petrich should be the Ambassador of Lifestream.
Dave knows Tessa Petrich should be the Ambassador of Lifestream!
Tessa Petrich has all the skills the Ambassador of Lifestream needs!
As the former VP of Marketing at Zimride, a Silicon Valley startup building trusted networks for carpooling, Tessa Petrich understands how to galvanize people into action. Using Facebook, Twitter, email and even frog costumes for on-site events, Petrich built large carpool communities at 40+ college and corporate campuses. For more about Zimride’s success read here http://www.zimride.com/about or here http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/29/29greenwire-startup-bets-that-social-networking-will-spur-36381.html
Two weeks til the new Sia album is released! I can’t believe I missed her when she was in Boston a few years back (dislocated my knee the day of!) but this new album is already great. (You can check out more videos here: http://music.aol.com/video-hub/artist/sia/379115/). It’s important that the Ambassador of Lifestream knows what’s happening - and works to get that information out to her friends!
To inform, entertain and connect the world - AOL Mission Statement
I can get behind that mission statement. Actually, seems like what I do on a daily basis. If by world, I mean the small amount of rabid life fans I’ve built in the past 24.9 years.
More on AOL’s Mission: http://www.corp.aol.com/our-values/our-mission
Wine tasting’s more fun with mustaches. As the AOL Ambassador of Lifestream, I’ll be sure to bring that extra spunk to anything we do.
