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The Rockstar Complex

One of the great things about social media is how it can con­nect you with thou­sands of peo­ple you would oth­er­wise never know. This makes it easy to  be exposed to new things, learn from them and become more informed and smarter about busi­ness every sin­gle day. Indeed, social media has helped to vastly improve

Why are you so flaky online? Or 6 simple ways to maintain a consistent presence.

Image via Wikipedia I know peo­ple who are bright, ener­getic and engaged in per­son but don’t come off that way online. They have Face­book pro­files that are never updated and Twit­ter accounts they haven’t posted to in weeks. Or worse, a blog that has gone entirely dark for months. Sure it’s hard to keep up

What’s your frequency?

Image by PunkJr via Flickr I’m writ­ing this from “video vil­lage” on the set of a video and print pro­duc­tion in LA. I’ve been really, really busy with this cam­paign so I haven’t had time to blog as much this last week. So what bet­ter time to address blog­ging fre­quency – which is exactly what

Why I blog. Or I’ve learned more here than…

Image by Pere­grino Will Reign via Flickr I had two con­ver­sa­tions with tal­ented ad cre­atives yes­ter­day that reminded me of how far main­tain­ing this blog and my other sites have taken me in the last year. The first was about SEO and the sec­ond was about pro­fi­ciency with devel­op­ment. Nei­ther one of them had been

Blogging transparency is mostly BS. And that’s good.

Image by David­Er­ick­son via Flickr Edit note: I know some folks are going to say I’m miss­ing the point or I’m redefin­ing the term. I’m writ­ing this because I feel like it has to be said. Blog­ger trans­parency is mostly bull squeeze. Fel­low blog­gers, you may feel open and trans­par­ent but you can’t escape who you