Archive for August, 2007

Back 2 Back 2.0 Conferences

I will be in San Fransisco the first two weeks in September attending back to back conferences.
Office 2.0
My first stop will be the Office 2.0 conference, Wed. Sept 5th-7th. They’re running two tracks, one geared towards the next gen web based office tools and one geared towards the ever buzz worthy Enterprise 2.0.
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Is This Really Advertising?

I know I’ve been a little quiet. Things at HP have been very busy. Busy good though. Look for some really cool marketing to come out of HP at the end of the month.
Like a lot of big companies HP has been moving a lot of ad dollars online. One thing that HP has […]

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The Death of Wrist Watches and Voice Messages

This post is for all you trend spotters out there.
Wrist Watches: Why bother?
I was at my brothers bachelor party a few months back when I asked everyone that was around the poker table what time it was. Not a single person knew. Now my brother is 10 years younger than I am and I’m pretty […]

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Bioterrorism in SecondLife

This is a little off topic from my usual posts but I thought this was really cool. The Idaho Bioterrorism and Preparedness Program out at ISU is using SecondLife for virtual training.
Play2Train will provide opportunities for training through interactive role playing and will be the foundation for our emergency preparedness educational machinima. This site will […]

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Capitalism as a Metaphor

This post is being revised as a page - The Book: Social Media Trifecta 
This is a thought I’ve been chewing on for a while. I often get a variation of the same question: “How do you monetize new media/Web 2.0?” or “How do you measure the ROI of new media/Web 2.0?”
Every business manager in America […]

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Indie sell out

In November of 2004, Death Cab for Cutie signed a “long-term worldwide dealâ€? with Atlantic Records, leaving their long-time label Barsuk Records. Gibbard stated on the official website that nothing would change. This was a marked change from Gibbard’s earlier views on major-label relations. (From their Wikipedia entry)
I have been a long time fan […]

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What does it mean to be a blogger?

Every blogger has their own reasons for blogging.  Like the content that fills our blogs, we are unique.  When you say “I blogged about this the other day” what are you saying about yourself?  Why do we pull out your Moleskine (or other inferior note book) to write down a blog idea?  What compels us?
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