Over the past several months I’ve been in a marathon. I’ve been building our digital marketing education program with a focus on mobile marketing strategies that engage local businesses as a key ingredient to a successful prospecting (farming) scenario.
Though it’s a marathon to be sure, it’s also a total blast and I’ve never had more fun meeting with clients and getting to know local small businesses up close and personal. Anyhow, funny, ironic, mystical, lunar driven synchronicity, what have you, old typewriters have been showing up in my life lately after years of not seeing any.
We did the #mobilecomcamp field trip / scavenger hunt clock hour class in downtown Sumner, Washington this week and at one of our stops I came upon this lovely old and very used (and abused) Underwood. The first thing that jumped into my mind was, “I bet she could tell us some stories!”
I’ve used my fair share of old typewriters back in the day and as a kid I cherish the memories I have of seeing even older one’s like this from previous generations. They changed the way we worked and communicate and they changed the world as we once new it. They caused a stir and even back then many complained this new technology was a sure sign of our eventual downfall as a literate society. Yet, just like today, the innovators, early adopters, early and late majorities, and laggards too whom embraced or rejected such a technology existed.
Embrace, resist, delay, ignore, the world turns as always...
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