Meet Ryan!
Ryan is a copywriter at a large interactive advertising agency in Boston. She graduated from Boston University in 2005, where she received a BS in Communications and a BA in French Language and Literature. During her senior year, Ms. Barrett co-founded an online nightlife start-up, which she then worked on for 2 years after graduating from school.
Ryan Barrett's blog, Cheap Thrills, http://ryanbarrett.typepad.com/ is well-read in Boston, among other areas. She covers a variety of issues one of which being marketing industry trends specifically pertaining to social media and the web. It's her personal blog and is linked in with a variety of local groups, including the Boston Blogs Network and WBZ-TV (CBS Boston).
Ms. Barrett has been featured in PC Magazine and linked to by Valleywag (Gawker Media's silicon valley "gossip" blog). Ryan is also a member of the MIT Exchange (MITX) and the Web Innovators Group and has blogged many of their events.
Ryan is also a contributor of the highly-recognized Age of Conversation book, a compilation of 100 chapters by 100 bloggers, which is now gearing up for its second round.
In her free time, Ryan loves to dance the night away, throw dinner and cocktail parties, make daring fashion choices and read memoirs. She can be reached at ryanhdb@gmail.com.
