Archive for June, 2009

31 days to a Better Blog

Recently I purchased “31 Days to Build a Better Blog, by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. It has been my intention here for some time to get more focused and have some clear cut goals around my blogging activities. I have been spending more and more time writing and trying to explore the edge of social [...]


How Cool Would it be? A Crowd Sourced Trip…

This is Part One in a two part series called “How Cool Would it be? ACrowd Sourced Trip… In post number one I will share my ideas, while in post number two I will take your ideas as well as mine and show how this could be implemented strategically. In about three weeks my wife [...]


Will there be no Hiding from the Mainstream Entertainment Garbage?

You Tube, the once criticized and bashed nemesis of the mainstream press, news organizations and television is now the new diamond in the eye of mainstream entertainment investors. Cynthia Brumfield, an industry analyst at Emerging Media Dynamics is sounding more and more like a fresh study of social media rather than a Madison Avenue Suit. [...]


The Passion Promoter – 1

Be a promoter of Passion! You getting ready to throw up in your mouth the next time someone tries to sell you a “How to use twitter Book“?? I know I am! I am a passionate guy! I love my job, I love my Family, and I love to share! Every once and a while [...]


Crack the Fishbowl and Flourish

This blog Post is also available in Audio Format. Click Play Below: The Fishbowl If you’ve spent any time in the social media space you were bound to hear of the ‘Fishbowl’ or ‘The Fishbowl Effect’. This term is a way of saying that we, The Digerati or Early Adopters are basically talking and marketing [...]


Blog Walks – What’s the ROI of Your Health?

Today, I have episode #1 of Blog Walks. This is a regular feature that I am planning on doing here on the blog. This project has a few goals: 1. Help get my butt in shape, and hey maybe you’ll join me! 2. Follow through on my goal to get out a video Podcast where [...]


The State of the Youth Address

So, most of you who are readers of this blog know that I am always exploring the edge of business, social media and emerging technologies. Today, I want to lighten it up a bit and give you the “State of the Youth address. Being that it’s fathers day, I thought this would be appropriate for [...]


Relay For Life – Support LHS NHS

This is a guest Post by my wife Michelle. She is going to tell you a bit about her history with The Relay For Life. Michelle has been a high school Math teacher for 9 years at Lockport H.S in NY. I am extremely proud of the work that she does as well as ll [...]


One to One “Skype is my Twitter”

Today, I had a chat with a friend and peer about the social media space and some of the changes that are happening in the business, marketing and media sectors. I do this frequently. In fact, I believe that true on-to-one relationships that utilize real human interaction through voice, video r in person is WAY [...]


AT&T and Apple Fail to Embrace Community

It was back in February that I went to my first ever South by Southwest conference in Texas. Not only did I have the most amazing time, but I made more genuine contacts there in 1 week then I had ever made at ten other conferences combined. The who’s who of social media, emerging technology, [...]