NICE Person of the Week: Brian Carter

Thanks for everyone's nominations so far for the NICE Person of the Week! I have a little inbox subfolder where I'm keeping all of your emails, so even if I don't pick your nominee this week, I might next week or the week after, etc. Keep 'em coming!

This week's NICE Person was submitted by Maria Pergolino of good old Philadelphia. I liked her nomination because it was a different way of looking at kindness, and I thought Brian Carter was a perfect fit.

What makes Brian so NICE:

This isn’t your typical description of ‘NICE’. I mean, I know Brian loves his grandmom as he visits and talks about her often. Even Tweets about her. And while I’m sure he recycles, donates time and money, and everything else that I typically consider NICE, he does something more. Brian goes out of his way for people with almost every free second of his day. He communicates with people for more than his own benefit. This person takes the time to help people with their projects, questions, ideas, etc. hundreds of times a day. And for one simple reason. They ask.

Brian works in search and social media. Primarily he is responsible for a number of large Pay-Per-Click programs, and keeps up-to-date on his craft via the web including blogs and social sites like Twitter. Doing so he has acquired over 16,000 followers on Twitter alone. Every day hundreds of people retweet him, reply to him, direct message him, leave notes for him on blogs, and more. He takes the time to reply to each one of them. Even if it’s a technical question. Even if it’s 1:30am. Even if it’s just to say thank you.

He does this because he thinks it’s the right thing to do. To engage people. Let them know he is listening. And to help them. He talks about it here in this blog article.

The interesting thing is what he is doing is the same as what we should be doing every day. He’s virtually holding a door, helping someone cross the street, saying good morning. The difference is he’s doing it online. If more people did this online, and in their everyday lives, like Brian, this world would be a better and happier place. I’m glad he is so NICE.

Brian sounds pretty amazing! I have a lot to learn from him, considering I have trouble keeping up with emails alone, let alone Tweets, and I'm sure I have nowhere near the amount he does. So I'm going to try to learn a lesson from Brian and do a better job at being available, keeping in contact, engaging others. It really is the NICE thing to do! Great nomination Maria!

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