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Fast Company Magazine: Innovation + Creativity = Awesomeness

Fast Company is one of my favorite publications. Actually, the first blog I wrote for the Comet Branding Blog was called “Fast Company Rules.” It’s a glorious post, make sure to read it. I am very passionate about words.

Fast Company Magazine — Innovation + Creativity = Awesomeness
Ellen McGirt — Senior Writer, Fast Company Magazine

I am pretty excited to have Ellen McGirt on the radio show this Wednesday. In 2007, she joined Fast Company and they were pretty excited too (I’ve included some of their press release below).

Fast Company is one of my favorite publications. Actually, the first blog I wrote for the Comet Branding Blog was called “Fast Company Rules.” It’s a glorious post, make sure to read it. I am very passionate about words. A guy I used to work with once said, “Al, words are very important.” Although I wasn’t super receptive to his comment at the time, because we were under a major deadline, he couldn’t have been more correct. I dig words and I really dig great writing (Sadly, I’m guessing this post is going to be filled with mistakes).

Anyway, I dig Fast Company and one of their best writers is Ellen McGirt. I ran into Ellen on Twitter (@ellmcgirt), like almost all of the guests who have been on Comet Branding Radio. After finding out how cool she was, I asked if she might be open to being on the show. She said yes. Rad, no?

As I have done additional research on Ellen to prep for the show, I have grown to appreciate her even more. She has really amazing credentials. Honestly, she’s way to cool to be on the show. Don’t tell her though.

Here is an excerpt from Fast Company’s press release: “McGirt comes to Fast Company from Fortune where she was a senior writer. She was also a columnist and editor-at-large for Money. McGirt has served as a guest correspondent for CNN’s American Morning, and has appeared frequently on Good Morning America, CBS Early Today, NBC Nightly News, CNN, NBC’s Weekend Today, HGTV and BET.

“Ellen is a rising star in the world of business journalism,” said Safian. “She has a gift for storytelling, whether in print, broadcast or online. Her distinctive style and perspective will be a great addition to the unique, cutting edge articles that are the hallmarks of Fast Company.”

Prior to joining Time, Inc., McGirt was the lead financial columnist for AOL’s Electra.com, a proprietary online magazine for women, and later became a founding writer and online personality for Oxygen Media’s finance channel, Ka-Ching.com. She spent two years as an on-air correspondent for the online financial network Yahoo! FinanceVision. McGirt is also the producer of the oral history, Love Letter For America, a project for which she crisscrossed the country for over six months.

McGirt first emerged as a nationally recognized financial writer and online presence in 1997 when she founded CassandrasRevenge.com, an award-wining investor education Web site for women. The site attracted a wide following and was widely praised by The New York Times, USA Today and Equity Magazine.”

McGirt has written stories on “The Brand Called Obama” (You know about this one right?), “The Kid Who Turned Down $1 Billion” (Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg), “The Most Dangerous Job in Business” (The Life of Chief Marketing Officers) as well as “Al Gore’s $100 Million Makeover.”

*Images: (CC) Brian Solis, www.briansolis.com and bub.blicio.us.

Tags: Creativity, Ellen McGirt, Fast Company, journalism