As a social media analyst, Thu-An currently discovers prolific authors and loci of conversations about clients' brands, products, services, marketing initiatives, and more. With this information, she gives clients her analysis of online chatter.

Thu-An has extensive experience in online content creation and consumption. From managing online reputations and interfacing with clients about their search marketing campaigns, she can spot spam from web text and permalinks only. Adoption of the newest/most shiny Web 2.0 applications have taught her random useful things like the past tense of "digg" is "dugg" and chances are Thu-An either has or is seeking beta invites.

Thu-An graduated from Swarthmore College with Honors and a BA in Sociology/Anthropology. She also minored in Environmental Studies.

Thu-An's currently taking spinning and yoga classes and has taken violin lessons in the past. She also has no compunction about taking pictures of food and posting them to her tumblr (anbui.tumblr.com) before everyone eats. In addition to being a lifelong learner, Thu-An's held the teacher role in four states and two countries. She tutored students in English, writing, math, and standardized test taking skills and taught briefly as a lacrosse instructor, so she has a few opinions about teaching, learning, and education. The next thing that Thu-An wants to learn is how to fix a flat!

She also loves talking to strangers.

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