Mary Schmidt Marketing Troubleshooter

I used to live in Chicago
where the cold wind blows
I delivered more junk mail
than the junkyard would hold
I wasn’t hurtin’ nobody
I wasn’t hurtin’ no one
-John Prine, Ain’t hurtin’ nobody,Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings

Recently I joined the International Association of Nobodies. To those of you just visiting blogville, this may look like another one of the goofy insider things with no relation to your real world (We bloggers just natter on and on, filling up that virtual junkyard.)

However, there are two very real (and important) implications to this:

1. It only takes one person speaking up to get a world-wide group to come together.

2. We’ve got the technology these days to have an organization (complete with communications and a store) up and running in a matter of hours. By golly, we even have a coffee mug!

So, next time you (or somebody you know) says, “I’m just one person” or “I’m nobody. Who would listen to me?” remember, everybody is somebody’s - ur - nobody. Or something like that. So, speak up, get busy (and have some fun while you’re doing it. If nobody can do it, you can!)

The way I see it, if we can get even a few people to think a bit differently, decide to speak up, get involved - then we would have done something worthwhile. (And, my fellow nobodies are a really interesting group I might never have “met” otherwise. We’re all over the globe - U.S., Denmark, Canada, South America, Australia…)

Read More:

Illustrious IAN founder, Allan Jenkins’ post, The 2004 Tsunami, what other “nobodies” accomplished.

Fellow nobody Lee on How to create a global project management tool in 72 hours.

Tags: blogher, business development, nobody, nobodies