Reciprocal Roasting With Scott Monty

Scott Monty, the Bostonian Crayonista  representing ooVoo when they became the first corporate sponsor of my beloved Frozen Pea Fund is leaving Crayon to become the Director of Social Media for Ford Motors.  This seems like a big time move to me, even if Crayon is a cutting edge company and Ford is, well, Ford.

(KIDDING, Scott!)

Scott is one of the nicest guys you'd want to meet, which I found out during My ooVoo Day which happened shortly after my surgery for breast cancer. I was still very sick on the first day, February 10, 2008 but it was the day that kicked off more than a week of six way video conversations via internet thanks to ooVoo technology. Since we were raising money to fight cancer, I was there sick or not, and Scott was there to suppport me no matter what I needed.

Who knew that just five months later, Scott would be leaving Crayon to take on the prestigious spot at Ford?

In the world of social media everyone's a kidder and we do feel that we have a connection that overrides the fact that it's harder maybe to know people that we've never run into in the grocery store. It's an odd kind of connection, but a sincere feeling nonetheless so when I learned about Scott's new job I knew I'd miss his being a Crayonista I could ask for special ooVoo perks.

Hey! but he might be able to help me get a deal on a miata. When I told him this he suggested a Pea Green model for himself. That's the way our conversations go. I tell him how clueles I am about some tech issue and make pea jokes while he shows me his kids artwork. Yup, I'm the perennial social media nana and Scott has me pegged.

So although going to Boston for the Roast for Scott wasn't in the cards for me, I sent my regrets and asked everyone to give Scott a hug for me. It turned out to be a good thing. It was the only way I missed the barbs sent in the direction of the participants. I contented myself to watch the tweet-stream related to the quips and jokes coming out of the assembled geeks, notably those from another nice-guy young enough to be my son - almost - Doug Haslam

Of course I should have known we could count on video by Len Edgerly via Vimeo who documents every event from reading his Kindle on the beach to what his character's doing in Second Life. Here Scott Roasts the Roasters who got together to give him a good natured Social Media sendoff on his way to Detroit.

Scott Monty Roasts the Roasters from Len Edgerly on Vimeo.

Comments

[Scott Monty]

Hi Susan,

It would have been lovely to have had you at the roast, but I can't imagine having to roast you back. There are some people who are just far too nice - a few of whom I went more lightly on at the roast itself.

It's been my pleasure getting to know you over Twitter and ooVoo and I'm so glad the the Fund could be a central part of the big ooVoo social media launch. It's really meant the world to me to be associated with such a successful program that is hehlping to make a difference in people's lives.

I hope that one day we'll have a chance to meet face to face and share a few laughs and hugs together.