From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Let’s Welcome Colin Browning to the Pirate Ship

by Justin Levy on December 31, 2008

It’s official.  Colin Browning has joined the pirate ship.  Colin is joining our team after 3.5  years at Prospero and Mzinga.  If you don’t already know Colin, he was the Director of Business Development at Mzinga.  Colin rounds out our core team who will be leading the charge at New Marketing Labs.  He also has [...]

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Grocery Store Goes Hi-Tech with Personal Scanners

by Justin Levy on December 30, 2008

A few weeks ago I was at my local Stop & Shop grocery store and noticed some new stuff around.  They had upgraded the self-checkouts and there was also a docking station that had several personal scanners.  In a rush I couldn’t play with the shiny new toys.  But, over this past weekend I went [...]

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Social Media and the Las Vegas Strip – How MGM Mirage and Luxor Are Taking Advantage

by Justin Levy on December 29, 2008

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Brandie, known on Twitter as @LuxorLV.  Brandie is in charge of interactive marketing at the Luxor and social media initiatives at MGM Mirage.
I first met Brandie via Twitter when I was in town for BlogWorld Expo a couple months ago.  I was sending regular tweets, as usual, about [...]

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How to Use Google Reader Like a Pro

by Justin Levy on December 27, 2008

Yesterday you learned how to become a Twitter power user and today I want to show you how you can consume tons of information from your RSS feeds in a short period of time.  I think this is a critical skill especially if you want to follow a lot of different feeds and don’t want [...]

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Want to Become a Twitter Power User?

by Justin Levy on December 26, 2008

Have you been on Twitter for a while now?  Are you looking for new ways to get the most out of Twitter?  Do you want to graduate from a novice to a power user?  Well, if you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, then Christopher S. Penn has a new ebook [...]

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Do You Really Want to Know?

by Justin Levy on December 24, 2008

So, I’ve finally been tagged by one of the memes going around the blogosphere this week.  This particular meme happens to be seven things you don’t know about me.  I got tagged by Scott Monty and Jason Kintzler within a couple hours of one another.  
I know some people don’t like these type of posts [...]

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What You Can Learn From My Dog

by Justin Levy on December 22, 2008

This weekend I had the chance to take my dog out and really play around in the snow with her.  I love spending time with my dog, Sasha.  But unfortunately, my schedule over the past few months prevents me from doing some of the really fun things that we enjoy doing like going on hikes, [...]

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Amazon Remembers What You Want to Buy

by Justin Levy on December 20, 2008

A few days ago I was searching for new apps on my iPhone and saw that Amazon had created an app.  I buy from Amazon all the time and use their “Wish List” feature to keep track of all of the books I’ll hopefully end up buying and reading eventually.  I eargerly installed the app [...]

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Setting Sail for 2009 on a Pirate Ship

by Justin Levy on December 20, 2008

So, over the past few weeks I have been really mean to all of my friends on Twitter.  I have been teasing them about a “secret project” that I was working on and kept promising to tell everyone what I was up to.  Starting mid-week I began leaking little bits of info such as that [...]

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Announcing Social Media Jungle at CES!

by Justin Levy on December 8, 2008

I’m excited to announce that I will be speaking at the one-day Social Media Jungle conference taking place at CES in Las Vegas on Wednesday, January 7th at the Venetian.  The first Social Media Jungle was an amazing day and I hope that I will see a lot of you in Las Vegas for this [...]

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