The Week That Was - Issue #7

Alex Powell
Alex Powell
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Spring is in the air....

Spring must be coming, because the 1st floor stench has returned to the Montreal office.

Cool Site of the Week
The best promotion of Vanilla I have ever seen a website do: https://destinationsinternational.org/ The video is right on the homepage!

Webinar Alert

Coming March 6th, a webinar
https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/1587936/0ECA108C26800EE624793538C8074DE8?partnerref=vanilla

Pizza Lunch

This past week Kaci organized a great pizza lunch for the Montreal office. We missed all of you that couldn't be here :(

CSM offsite

The CSM team held an offsite meeting about ways to make us more successful in helping our customers get launched, create amazing spaces for their customers, prospects and fans.

Pet of the Week

@Andrew_D 's Cat Riker. Here is a bit of story from the proud owner: "Riker was born under the shed at my parents' place in Semora, North Carolina (have fun finding that on a map) sometime in mid-May.  Initially, my relationship with his litter was just occasionally throwing some leftovers outside where I knew they hung out.  My parents came into the picture mid-summer, however, and started buying them toys and actual cat food and even bought them a bowl.  Consistent feeding started to happen and the kittens got braver and braver around us.  Well, really, the only one that got really brave was Riker.  

I'm not a cat person and I wasn't interested in becoming one, so when I moved back to Raleigh, I didn't give them too much thought.  Then my dad appeared at my door one afternoon with a cat carrier.  They were heading back down to their main residence in Florida and had caught the kitten that would eventually be Riker.  The plan had been to take him to Florida, but they apparently got cold feet about owning a cat again. And since I'm a sucker, I couldn't let them take him to a shelter or drop him off at a farm, so I took him in.  

He went from wild to domesticated way faster than I thought he would, and even though I tried to initially find him a home, he didn't seem to like anyone but me.  So I kept him.  Soon after, the name Riker fell onto him while 'The Next Generation' reruns played while I manned the Support queue late one night.  

He the most graceless cat that I've ever met, climbing or jumping up the backs of furniture only to immediately fall back down because he decided to roll over at the top.  His favorite food is whatever I happen to have and never the expensive wet food I sometimes try to treat him with.  His favorite toy is a loud squeaky mouse in a little Santa hat and his favorite time to play with it is whenever I'm in a Team Awesome meeting.

He's a ridiculous creature, but I guess he's mine."

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