Who Am I?

My name is Nicholas McGill and I am Heroik. I live my life differently than most without opting out of society. I find ways to help people communicate, share, connect and discover their HeroiK virtues.

Details
Name: Nicholas McGill
Occupation: Social Media Director
Company: Heroik Media
Website: www.heroikmedia.com
Contact: 530-400-0539
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thechivalrous
Email: nicholas@getheroik.com

What Do I Do?

I am the Social Media Director for Heroik Media, a digital think tank that specializes in social media and digital product management. We work and contribute to various projects and companies with teams across the United States.

I live for adventure and find it everyday whether I’m working  with my clients or getting lost on vacation.  I take work as seriously as I take my play and rarely have a dull, full week of the 9 to 5 office life. I’m a happy, functioning workaholic and adventurer.  I can’t always afford to leave work behind in my travels so I spend quite a bit of time finding new ways of minimizing my work load and bringing small tasks with me while I play.

What am I Working on Right Now?

I am most excited about unveiling the new Digital Liquidity website, and relaunching a more visual version of my personal creative blog Last of  the Chivalrous.  I can’t wait to share the presentations, ideas, photos of my travels and new writing. They will both be up in January, 2010.

I recently launched the Heroik Media site and am working on this site Get Heroik right now. We’re taking new approaches to business, design, marketing and social media and helping others become Heroik.  The deceptive nature of marketing and how it is still playing out in Social Media is appalling. We are helping businesses re-discover the value of virtue. Think small town accountability and community involvement meets the big city.

How Do I  Keep This Playful Balancing Act Going?

I live my life like a Super Hero. I romanticize my life to make it more FUN! Every task becomes a quest and action-packed adventure. At the hard points in life, I look back to familiar story-lines of the childhood heroes I read about in comic books and saw on film. I am a total nerd Batman fanatic and I use it to inspire myself to push harder, play harder and do more whether I’m working, working out, writing, traveling, you name it, I channel my inner Uber Hero.

I take fun seriously. I like to plan, take precautions, charge the camera batteries and pack the utility belt so I am prepared to maximize my good times. Bringing the camera, the dog, and friends are essential to my happiness. I prefer to have witnesses and to catch it on film so that I can look back, remember and share my stories. I use the memories, wrecks, road rashes and photos to propel me forward in my work and training for my next exciting adventure.

Professionally

1. I do what I love and use my experience to help others.

I have been a writer in denial my whole life and often get teased as the “English Major” although I am far from it. I realized one day that I sort things out through expression, writing and art. I have an over-active imagination and try to find ways to use it to help people and make a living.

2. I decide and dictate my value,  demanding control over my time and  appropriate sums for my services.

Society tries to trick you by assuming power to assign your value. It is the nature of the market-driven society to tear your down and attempt to destroy your self-esteem so they can get more out of you for less money. At times I am required to defend my decisions and demonstrate my value but I do so with pride and without fear, thus preventing me from living the life of a cubicle-locked,  indentured servant.

3.  I constantly educate myself. I focus on refining myself by  studying anything that interests me and I find ways to apply it to what I do. I burry myself in books, mentors, classes, workshops and adventure and pool all of that experience to apply it to what I do.

4. I communicate and connect with the world on my terms. Sometimes this means I’m on a mountain top, or in my kayak on  the lake, getting paid to have a conference call with a client. The signal is great and view is better than any office or board room I know. I find that I can work more efficiently with a clear head and open space to organize thoughts and action items.

5. I  discover and invent new ways of expressing my opinions and  new methods of reaching out to others.

6. I utilize my over active imagination  and creativity to bottle these experiences up into products and services.

7. I work with a team of super heroes. I am lucky enough to work with Rock Stars of business, design, entertainment and technology. We work independently and together as needed and I learn from every engineer, client, designer with whom I work. I am often found to be obnoxiously curious.

8. Everywhere I go, I look to inspire and be inspired. The people I meet and things I learn that reinforce my confidence and ambition to become Heroik.

9. I refine my ideas by writing often. Whether a simple tutorial, guide or retelling of my struggles and adventures, I process and grow through writing and expression.

10. I make mistakes; some that cost me greatly and work hard not to let them happen again. I’m sure I’ve made hefty contributions at some point to someone’s pyramid scheme.

11. I make technology work for me, not me for it and I help others do the same. Look for Digital Liquidity in 2010 and you’ll find out how I do this

My Name is Nicholas and I am Heroik.