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Super Dream, Drama Queen ~ Me!

Creator of Circumstance 

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All the Crystal you can stand 

Cynosure: Dishing on the Digital Universe
Cynosure is a blog about using Web 2.0 technologies to communicate, and in particular exploring how our personal communications are crossing over into the business world and back again.
Creator of Circumstance
My blog about writing, editing, books, literature and the like.
Plum Ruby Review
The literary arts journal that I founded and co-edit.
crystallyn.com
My casual blog, now twelve years young, where I rave and rant and talk about anything at all...
My Flickr Photos
The latest from my foray into photography.
My del.icio.us Links
Gazillions and gazillions of them.
Hear me Yelp!
Opinions and advice on everything Boston.

Recently Published--Business 

Some of Crystal's latest business/technology articles

Critical Thinking for Managers: A Manifesto
A Change This Manifesto about how managers need to think critically in the workplace.
Podvertising: Niche Not Reach
Is podvertising a viable marketing medium yet?
In-Game On
The power of advertising in video games.
Making Mobile Waves
Mobile marketers need to move beyond the youth audience.
Going Where Tech Hasn't
How out-of-the-box thinkers are altering media habits.

Recommended Poetry 

in no particular order

I love poetry and these are some of my favorite books and authors.
  1. Anne Carson ~ Autobiography of Red
  2. Julie Suk ~ Angel of Obsession
  3. Sarah Manguso ~ The Captain Lands in Paradise
  4. Czeslaw Milosz ~ Collected Works
  5. Pablo Neruda ~ The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
  6. Octavio Paz ~ Collected Poems
  7. Stephanie Young ~ Telling the Future Off
  8. Laurie Lamon ~ Fork Without Hunger (out in December but it is bound to be AMAZING)

Recently Published--Poetry: 

Some of Crystal's latest poems

The Muse Apprentice Guild
* "Three Museums in the Last Autumn of the Millennium"
* "Memento"
* "The Mind, Having Lost Its Balance"
Verse On Vellum
* "At the MFA"
* "Shivers"
* "Experience"
Small Spiral Notebook
* "day-star [poetic]"
* "The Voice Not Heard"
* "Anchorage"
Astropoetica
* "Divinity"
The Rose & Thorn
* "24" ~ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

Great Stuff on Amazon 

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

Amazon Price: $18.96 (as of 10/12/2008)

Autobiography of Red

Amazon Price: $11.16 (as of 10/12/2008)

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 10/12/2008)

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Amazon Price: $13.60 (as of 10/12/2008)

Neverwhere

Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 10/12/2008)

The Symphony of Ages Boxed Set I: Rhapsody, Prophecy, Destiny

Amazon Price: $16.30 (as of 10/12/2008)

A Natural History Of Love

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 10/12/2008)

A Natural History of the Senses

Amazon Price: $10.17 (as of 10/12/2008)

The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: 38 Fully-Dramatized Plays

Amazon Price: $378.00 (as of 10/12/2008)

New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/12/2008)

The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems

Amazon Price: $11.96 (as of 10/12/2008)

The Sword of Truth Gift Set, Books 1-5

Amazon Price: (as of 10/12/2008)

Photos from Flickr 

Petra Exhibit at the Met by crystallyn

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Lady Madonna

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Tree Lines

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Washington Monument...

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Blue View by crystallyn

Blue View

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About crystallyn

Crystal King has been working in high-tech marketing for over 15 years. Her expertise as a marketer and critical & creative thinker entwine with her love of technology and her genuine desire to meet and learn about new people.

Currently Crystal works at CA, Inc. as PR Director for the company's corporate governance group.

Previously Crystal held positions at Sybase, Nexaweb, Taxware, Bowne and a handful of Internet startups such as Event Zero and Open Sesame. She has also taught Critical Thinking and Business Communications at UMass Boston.

Crystal has numerous publishing credits in various marketing and business publications including previous mobile marketing columns in PDA Street and iMedia Connection.

Crystal holds an M.A. in Critical & Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She received her B.A. in English writing and literature with minors in communications and French from Whitworth College in Spokane, WA.

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