Contributed by:
Simon Moya-Smith/YourHub staff
Article Contributed on: 3/31/2009 11:34:41 AM
Last week, I was sitting at my desk pondering a story idea when my cubicle mate,
Kristin Morin, leaned over to grab my attention.
"Hey, Simon," she said. "Tell me a word. Any word."
Naturally, I was curious to know what this odd request was all about.
With a smile blooming from my interest (I love surprises), I said to her, "OK, but first tell me why."
"Just tell me a word," she said back with a smile bigger than my own.
"Um, OK, how about 'design,'" I said.
"Cool, thanks." She turned back around facing her desk and began writing. I wanted to inquire more about this word game she was playing with me but I refrained. I thought the surprise would be much more enjoyable.
About 30 minutes later, she handed me her column, just like the one you are reading now, for my editing.
As I read on, I began to realize why she had randomly asked me to throw out any word in the English language. Kristin, the great photographer and creative mind that she is, had decided she was going to base her column on the word I chose to spout and relate said word to
YourHub.com. "Design" came to mind because at the time, the YourHub staff was in the process of designing pages for the week's print edition. Go to
denver.yourhub.com/~kristin to read her column.
"How ingenious," I thought to myself. She had, in a moment of creativity, came up with a way to spawn content for her column, all the while tying my less than exciting word into what it is we do here at YourHub.
Furthermore, she encouraged her readers to log on to YourHub.com, visit her blog and in the comments section, provide any PG-13 or cleaner word they could muster. In turn, she planned to select one word each week, and tie that word into any aspect of YourHub.com. If a user submits 'donkey,' it is her ambition to somehow tie 'donkey' into YourHub.com.
Now that you're here at my blog, let's enjoy this interactive game as well. Provide me any word that blooms in your brain by submitting it below in the comments section and I'll find a way to connect it into what YourHub.com is all about.
One word will be selected each week. Have at it, ladies and gents.