7 Habits of Highly Effective Social Marketers- Libby Delana

Ok, Interview #9 of the “7 Habits of Highly Effective Social Marketers” series. Today’s interview is with a new social media friend (and neighbor here on the North Shore of Boston) Libby Delana. Libby had the brilliant idea of answering these questions in the genre of the day- 140 characters or less (very Twitter-esque of you Libby)

About me
Founding Partner, in a Next Generation brand development firm named M E C H A N I C A.

1. What one trait or habit got you to where you are today?
A sunny disposition, a fierce belief that just about anything is possible and a touch of discipline

2. Your work day just started, what’s the FIRST thing you do?
I do a few things first…MAKE cup of tea, CHECK Twitter, HuffPo, NYT, FB, Mashable, Slate, GoogleReader,  WAKEUP teen children, RUN.

3. What makes you efficient with your day?
Old school.  Moleskine with graph paper and iced tea.

4. Your Favorite Business book of all time?
Not a book but an specific moment working with Paul Hawken in the early days of Smith and Hawken “Listen openly and very carefully to your angriest customers, they are giving you very clear direction on areas for improvement”

5. 3 things on your desk right now/ 3 things you can’t live without
Hot tea, iPhone, moleskine, favorite black pen, and a pile of optimism

6. Habit you want to kick in 2010
Taking too few photographs

7. Habit you’d like to form for 2010
To create an even more wildly open, experimental, brave, human, connected, collaborative, and optimistic environment.

BONUS: A picture of Libby’s office- very cool space.