Micki's new gig

June 26, 2006

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On Friday, my very close friend Micki Krimmel left her post at what was our employer, and is still my employer, Participant Productions. Micki went from an assistant position to Director of Online Outreach in her few years at the company, an impressive trajectory to be sure. I came on a few weeks before the launch of our community site, Participate.net. At that time, there was a lot of QA and project management to be done, and I went from freelance semi-employment to working insane hours trying to get the website out the door by a hard deadline. We worked very closely together, and rather than becoming irritated by eachothers' constant presence, we became the best of friends. After some months, I became a full-time employee, and we spent many workdays shouting at each other across a hallway (later across our shared office). After a little less than a year of sharing our thoughts and opinions about technology, the future of media, and the future of the sites we were managing, she left Participant for a startup called Revver.

The time I spent with Micki as a friend and colleague is very precious to me - having someone so sharp with whom to share ideas while working toward a common vision seems to be a rare experience in the 9-5 (well, 9:30-7ish) world. The fact that she never treated me in a subordinate manner (well, maybe she pulled rank once or twice) really impressed me, and her ability to turn what seemed to me anti-business open-source-hippie ideals into real action embraced by studio marketers was amazing. I don't know what will become of her at Revver, or beyond Revver if she moves again someday, but I know that she'll be making bigger and bigger ripples in the new media pond no matter where she goes. Micki Krimmel, I salute you. May you kick ass forever.

Read Micki's blog post about her decision at her blog, Mickipedia.

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