We are all familiar with the popularity contests of high school.  The idea of becoming homecoming queen or the student council president scared me as a teen, as neither were my thing.  I was more quiet and into other pursuits.  What is funny is now, some twenty years later, I find myself in Internet marketing and social media.  What is even funnier is the fact that I didn’t gasp at the idea of Mashable’s Open Web Awards Social Media Edition popularity contest.  Instead, I’d love to be nominated or win.  What the heck happened to me? Maybe I grew up or morphed into someone else. Read more