January 20, 2010
Imagine if you walked up to a vending machine, dropped in a couple dollars, made your selection and a soda popped out. Seems completely normal, right? Now, what if another soda came out. Possibly the computer on the fritz but kinda cool, huh? But, what if it kept spitting out soda after soda, started pouring the soda for you into a glass, gave you some flowers and a pizza? Think that would cause a group of people to gather 'round the vending machine? Of course it would. Now, what if that was all captured on video and shared online. High chance of going viral? Yep.
September 9, 2009
Today I review Twitterville
by Shel Israel. I enjoyed reading Twitterville because Shel does a great job of telling the stories that have come to make Twitter what many of us love. The book doesn't provide you with a lot of tactical, go out and do it-type information. But, what it does do is tell you stories about how Twitter has been used to form communities, trust and relationships.
September 7, 2009
A few days ago I saw a tweet fly by from Todd Defren mentioning something to do with Jay-Z and Rhapsody. Since I'm a HUGE fan of Jay-Z I followed the link. The link took me to this amazing Rhapsody commercial promoting Jay-Z's new album, The Blueprint 3. If you're not a fan of Jay-Z then it will be a little hard to understand why this commercial is so cool. BUT, any true Jay-Z fans will notice that, in the span of one minute, the commercial seamlessly takes you through most of Jay-Z's album covers.
August 18, 2009
I bet if you were just cruising through your tweets or feeds, this probably caught your eye huh? You might be thinking that I'm
just trying to create a catchy title to get you to stop on by, right? Well, if that's what you thought then you're partially correct. Of course, I love it when you stop by here and am incredibly humbled by it. However, in a recent tweet Gary stated that you should treat everyone like a goldfish. So, what did he mean by this?
August 8, 2009
One of the most powerful communications tools still remains the pen and paper. While technologies
such as blogs, video and photo sharing sites, and phones that can capture and post all of that content, have helped to create a 24/7, always-on communications and news cycle, it has only enhanced how powerful a simple pen and piece of paper can be. Now, you're probably starting to reach this post and think I'm insane. But, what I'm referring to is not writing memos, or publishing newspaper articles, capturing notes during a meeting or anything like that. I'm talking about the power that a simple hand-written note can wield. Notice, I did say hand-written.
August 5, 2009
I recently finished reading The Think Big Manifesto by Michael Port. You might already know Michael from his previous book, The Contrarian Effect. Check out my review below. If you can't see the video, you can grab it over on YouTube too.
August 3, 2009
Being a technology geek as well as someone interested in our Government, I was intrigued when I came across the Federal IT Dashboard website recently.
July 12, 2009
If you ever read this blog, follow me on Twitter or any of the other number of networks I'm on, you'll quickly realize that I am fascinated by anything that's behind-the-scenes. For example, I love that with New Marketing Labs I get to hang out with really cool companies at their offices. As I've said before, I try to look behind-the-scenes of other industries to learn from and apply to the way I do things with my businesses. That's why when I began reading about Reggie Love, the "body man" for President Obama, I became super interested. A "body man" in politics is not a personal bodyguard, the Secret Service takes care of that. Instead, a "body man", according to Wikipedia, is:
July 11, 2009
Thanks to my friend Jason Moore-Brown (@mobomedia) I got a chance to test out a few products from Incipio. Incipio makes all kinds of awesome cases and other accessories for your favorite electronics such as laptops, BlackBerry, iPhone, Kindle, and many many more. I really enjoyed the laptop and iPhone cases that I've been testing out. If you're looking for some new accessories for your tech gear, definitely make sure to check out Incipio.
July 5, 2009
There are many reasons why when I was growing up I always wanted to move to Boston. I've always loved Boston and used to come to the city often on class trips, to explore, for sporting events, the Tall Ships or any other reason I could find. Back in January I got that opportunity to move to Boston when we opened the doors to New Marketing Labs. One of the things I had always wanted to do but never got the chance was to go to the 4th of July celebration. Well, a few things aligned right in our schedules and last night Laura and I ventured down to the waterfront to watch the 4th of July spectacular. It was simply amazing.
