Archive for September, 2009

Is Twitter Spam helping to force a shift in Community?

Twitter has seen a huge rise in new account sign up and traffic over the last year and half. Once upon a time it was a very intimate and tight group of early adopters who populated the site and shared very rich communications. These days however Twitter has become a bit of a Spammers Paradise. [...]


4 Simple Digital Techniques for Small Business Online

Are you a local business owner who has been hearing the buzz about the power of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and all of the Social Media networks recently? I think if your reading this that there is a very good chance that the answer is “Yes”. After reading a post by Chris Brogan called 5 Things [...]


Giving you FREE reign to pick my brain!

What? I have been seeing a ton of conflicting opinions about social media for business in the past few weeks. Some of these opinions are coming from professionals in the space and some are coming from those that aspire. Without sounding egotistical I am going to offer an hour of my time to speak with [...]


Five Tips to Gaining Focus in your search for Opportunity

Last Thursday I told you that I would be chronicling my search for the next big thing and what my next steps were going to be. My hope is that in this process you will find inspiration and helpful tips to help you in your own search for opportunity. Todays economy and main stream media [...]


My WordPress was hacked – A Public Announcement

This is a very simple and important Public Service Announcement. WordPress, the popular blogging software is currently under attack. This attack is severe and gets into the root of your site adding new site Admins and playing with your database. If your site is current and updated, you should not have a problem. i am [...]


SXSW Extending the Interactive Panel Picker through Labor Day

Mountains of tweets, blog posts, emails and all out begging has been going on for the past few weeks as the New Media Fishbowl has been trying to get their panels approved for South by Southwest. The staff at SXSW has decided to continue to torture us by extending the voting period though the end [...]


The Social ROI and Business Objectives Resource

In just a few months at SXSW I hope to be leading a panel on the discussion of ROI in the Social Media Space. (Please vote for us!) However, I am not the singular voice by any means, but I realize that there is a need for metrics and models that help us make sense [...]


The Job Chronicles….What’s Next?

A massive number of emails and DM’s have been coming my way recently from people like yourself that have been asking me about my job search and what is coming now that my role with Best Buy has come to an end. Because of this I have been trying to decide if I would like [...]