Somehow or the other I came to be known as a quasi-expert on personal branding. And with the unemployment rate topping 8% the pace of people coming to me and asking about personal branding has taken quite a spike in the past month of so. Surprisingly, all of the people that are doing so are […]
Continue reading →On Friday Patrick Clements tweeted out that I had linked to a presentation about personal marketing. He could not find it. Either could I. Made a comment to me that it was something edgy. The only thing I could think of was Marta Kagan's social media marketing deck. But my Startups in 12 Quotes deck […]
Continue reading →It's back. Running from now until April 11. For the past two years I have given up some form of Internet technology for Lent. Two years ago it was Google and Yahoo! I went back to them both for awhile. These days it seems like just about everybody has given up on Yahoo!. And the […]
Continue reading →WebChallenge 2009 is coming. I am a judge. WebChallenge is a high-school level contest, where students are asked to use free technologies and/or Open Source Software in order to improve their community in some way. For the Webchallenge 2009 contest, there are 4 main categories in which students can compete: Best/Most Useful Concept (not the technology product, […]
Continue reading →Forgive the indulgence of the Follower Tag Cloud post. The output of Twittersheep was just to artistic to muddy with mere words. I found Twittersheep via my friend Tessa. Twittersheep is a Twitter visualization tool. It searches your list of Twitter followers and pulls together a tag cloud based on keywords in their profiles. The […]
Continue reading →Few people truly understand social media marketing. Marta Kagan does. If you want to understand it and know how to play the game, breeze through her presentation. Don't let the title scare you. It's good stuff. Don't believe me? Goog best social media marketing presentation and see what you find (Great to see Toby Bloomberg […]
Continue reading →In the past couple of weeks a few thing have gotten me thinking more about social media marketing. The first was a gaffe made by James Andrews, a Vice President, Director at Ketchum Interactive. He made a comment on twitter about Memphis, the home of FedEx, a major client of Ketchum. Well someone from FedEx […]
Continue reading →I was breezing through the headlines in The Wall Street Journal this morning when I came across this: "Obama to Tap Tech Adviser as FCC Chief". As in Internet this got my attention and the more I read the more excited I got about the selection. Julius Genachowski is an excellent choice to lead the […]
Continue reading →2009 is in full swing with a slate of events and competition that any startup entrepreneur in the Southeast should consider. CapitalLounge The next rev of the StartupLounge's entrepreneur/investor mixer takes place on February 25. CapitalLounge's primary goals are to provide an environment where early stage entrepreneurs can make connections with other like-minded entrepreneurs and […]
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