Who are you?
My name is Pete and I am a Social Media Expert and Event Management Consultant in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). I monitor and contribute to over 100 blogs and provide feedback and suggestions to them all and sometimes it isn’t what they want to hear even if it’s the right thing! My event management work is mostly with an urban adventure company that specializes in bringing extreme sports into the cities (like rock climbing buildings, base jumping, bungee jumping, and zip trekking (like in Vancouver for the Olympics).
What do you do for fun?
For fun I work by getting a sense of the best blogs out there, teach others about what I know with social media, volunteer in politics and garden.
What is your favorite community?
My favourite community is New Orleans I do so much business there and love to party with clients and take them out for real gumbo and jazz!!! Sun, fun and sin baby! Going down to the Big Easy to help with the oil spill in a few weeks.
What is your superpower?
Speed is my superpower. How can I do 40 hours of work in a 24 hour day? Organizing, multi-tasking and speed. I have good eye for detail and never have to read anything over once. Think. Write. Send. Its how I do so much business. And it builds community by my ideas and suggestions getting into businesses and people’s minds all over the world all at the same time. I get to every community at once.
Our three favorite things about the Real Pete are…
John:
Spellinh. Honestly, I spend 15% of my work day correcting grammar and spelling mistakes for graduate business students – and there are many, many mistakes. Pete just doesn’t have time to spell things write or even to care about whether or not people should care about what they spell or how they spell it. And it gets me thinking, what if I didn’t care about spelling? And what if I told my students – and maybe the staff of the Gumboot – that they shouldn’t care about spelling, sense and all the rest of it. What if we just thought about it, wrote it, and sent it? Yeah. Then we’d have efficiency we could only dream of. Oh, and irony…so, so, so much irony.
Fake Pete: His Manichean view of the world. With John being at the fulcrum, because he is the only one of the Gumboot-staff who is allowed to be both the ying and the yang in Pete’s world – the best and the worst of our contributors that is. Pete is a black and white-man and when he’s made up his mind you can be sure that he won’t waver. Knowing what I do now, Pete is really the role model of the “well informed gentleman of the 21st century”. It’s just not a miracle that he manages to spot things that others don’t perceive. Like the fact that we’re all secret commies at the Gumboot. Okay. Before this ends in dire satire and a bloody feud: Pete is dead-honest. I gotta hand it to him: He won’t give you no bullshit or politically correct phrasing if he thinks otherwise. And even though I sometimes hate his guts because his comments often are on the verge of rudeness I gotta say “kudos!” for that.
Kurt: Nostalgia. Every time the Real Pete comments, I’m reminded he’s one of our first and longest running fans/detractors. Some people might not know this, but the Real Pete provided one of our first commenters. I mark it as a watershed moment in our blog – one of the first times someone who wasn’t a friend posted on our site. And what a blistering first comment it was (all I remember is he pretty much called me out about my views on Toronto). Now, after many countless months, he continues to engage us in a blunt, offensive, humorous, and (I must say) weirdly supportive way.
Well, well, well, Pete. We meet at last. Sort of. Whether you do it off-line or not, I’d love to get a clearer idea of the ways in which you are a “social media expert” – led by one of our Correspondents, we have a special task force called The Daily Gumboot’s Social Media Ninjas whose sole purpose is to confront and reveal “social media experts” for the truthbending blowhards that they are. I’m not saying you’re not a social media expert, I’m just not not saying you’re not a social media expert. And you kinda sorta blow pretty hard.
Out of curiosity, how do you become an expert in a thing that is constantly evolving at lightspeed? Such a statement makes me skeptical of your superpowers, especially when folks at the leading edge of social media would never bestow such a title upon themselves.
Thanks for the tongue-in-cheek commentary, my friend. May this back-and-forth between us go on until there are no secret communists to uncover!
– JCH
Good work with the pictured. I remember that post Kurt it was hateful and uncalled for. A business in Toronto is probably responsible for your job and your family’s. So don’t bite the hand that feeds you! John sometimes spelling mistakes happen. Deal with it you make them too. I bet you live in Eastern Germany Peter! Haha.
It was good for you guys to put me on here.
– Pete the Douchebag!
Pete, thanks for the kudos and the advice. Not sure if I’ll follow it though 😉 Biting the Toronto hand every once in a while keeps you guys on your toes. Makes you remember there’s a whole other country outside of the GTA area! That being said, I stand by my point that it wasn’t a hateful post at all.
Hehe. That was actually funny, you GTA-douchebag! ^ ^
-East German Pete
Pete, you never answered my question. But that’s cool. I get that you’re busy. Experts usually are.
– JCH
Is Pete the Douchebag a real person?
Or is he a black flag attempt to create a controversial element in this blog and thereby create interest?
Let’s see a real photo, “Pete”. And maybe a web-reference. As a “social media expert”, should you not be broadcasting yourself widely over this internet? What is your facebook profile, twittering from what, “Pete”?
The conspiracy theorist has a good point Pete…
@ C-Specialist: Dude, you just made this issue my personal X-file… XD
@ Real Deal Pete-appeal: So – are you in for the challenge?
I promote myself just not here. This is like my hobby. So you’ll nevr get a pic. If you really want interest I can send you my fee.maybe all the people with photos aren’t really experts. Ever thinka that?
-Pete
Full disclosure. When Pete emailed Kurt and I he said something to the tune of “I’ll write a paragraph for you, but I don’t want my picture or real name listed on your second-rate blog.” Pete: confirm or deny.
Confrim. I like you guys but I have a reputation to keep up. You understand John.