Monthly Archives: October 2009

It takes more than a wow to keep people excited

Image by danor­bit. via Flickr The lat­est tech­nol­ogy to get peo­ple all hot and both­ered in mobile web mar­ket­ing is aug­mented real­ity. Because the tech­nol­ogy is so new we don’t require any cre­ativ­ity from the peo­ple employ­ing the medium other than than just using it pro­fi­ciently. This is going to change rapidly with all Web

When employees tweet their mouth off

You knew it would hap­pen. An employee was gonna blow a gas­ket on Twit­ter. So now you’re think­ing maybe this social media thing needs to be clamped down on. And just when it was start­ing to pay off too. Well did you plan for when the implo­sion hap­pens? You’ve got a plan for work­place acci­dents, legal

Some connections are just better

The inter­webs got me in touch with an old friend last week I had not talked to since I moved east. I picked up the phone and we picked up where we had left off – it was a great con­ver­sa­tion. It was also con­nec­tion worth renew­ing. But there are some peo­ple I see every

Return to Normalcy?

War­ren G Hard­ing ran for pres­i­dent for promis­ing a “return to nor­malcy.” The word nor­malcy didn’t sound nor­mal back then either. But his slo­gan did tap into the uncer­tainty and rapid change of the time. They’d just gone through a war in which the rules had changed thanks to a tech­no­log­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion. The whole coun­try had

Nobody Knows Everything

I was talk­ing with a group of social media folks about met­rics the other day and it made me think of a famous quote by William Gold­man, the Hol­ly­wood screen­writer “Nobody knows any­thing.” Gold­man was talk­ing about how nobody in Hol­ly­wood knows if a movie is going to do well. There are just so many

New Media Atlanta and the BackNoise controversy

My first expe­ri­ence with Bac­kNoise ever was three weeks ago at the New Media Atlanta con­fer­ence. Bac­kNoise is a web­site that allows peo­ple watch­ing an event to pro­vide a run­ning com­men­tary of what is hap­pen­ing. They can do it anony­mously or, if they choose, com­ment using their name. What this pro­vided was a win­dow into what

How much should you have to give to get?

Like all par­ents of young chil­dren, I hate, hate, hate how much it costs to keep my kids in dia­pers. So when I opened a new pack of Hug­gies® I was happy to be noti­fied I pos­si­bly had won a life­time sup­ply. All I had to do was fill out an online form. OK. But the

Whatever it is you’re great at, something else is probably needed

The early part of my career was easy. Seemed like things just got bet­ter every year. I had my pic­ture in CA Mag­a­zine within a few months of get­ting my first busi­ness cards printed. On my sec­ond job was as pri­mary writer on the Oak­ley sun­glasses busi­ness. My next job included a lot of TV

Social media isn’t free. Nor should it be.

A few months ago I worked on an adver­tis­ing project that came up because a client was promised some free pro­duc­tion and media. This offer was too good to pass up so they asked the agency to add some value and help make the most out of the oppor­tu­nity. I bet you know where I’m