Archive for April, 2008

like father like son

Every now and then I marvel at how different our children’s lives will be compared to ours.
The above photo is of me doing my MBA homework while my youngest son, Seth, plays games on PBSkids.org. When I was his age my father was getting his Masters and I was watching Sesame Street on PBS. […]

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For Corporate Social Media Practitioners. By Corporate Social Media Practitioners.

Conversation Matter: Bridging the Social Media Gap

Last month Michael Brito contacted me about a project he was getting ready to launch. I’d met Michael at a conference last year, he had left HP right before I started working there. He went to Yahoo and now is at Intel. Michael’s idea was to […]

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Chris Finke: the keeper of the blogging flame [Interview]

I’m a huge fan of ScribeFire and with every new update it keeps getting better. Since switching to Ubuntu Linux on my personal laptop I find myself using SribeFire almost exclusively.
I’ve been using ScribeFire off and on since it was originally the Performancing blogging plugin for FireFox. SInce it became ScribeFire I was […]

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Search Engine Optimize Your Emails

Some of you may be thinking that I’m taking SEO waaaaaay to far. And maybe I am but most of you using Gmail will understand what I’m talking about.
This also applies to Outlook users who actually use the search function or people with Google Desktop installed.
I have had a love/hate relationship with […]

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API’s give rise to the Micropreneur

Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb has written a thorough and thought provoking article during the Web 2.0 Expo (which I was not able to go to at the last minute and am still sulking over). The topic of his post specifically addresses API’s (Application Programming Interfaces). API’s let one application (app) talk to another […]

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Random Thoughts 04/23/2008

Official ReadBurner Blog » Blog Archive » Using ReadBurner and Disqus to Build Your Social Media Reputation and Traffic
Disqus has been quitely building momentum. I dismissed it when it first came out because I felt the conversation was the most important part of your blog/social network and why would you want to give that […]

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The military to use wiki’s to fight insurgence

Wiki based battle plans? Or Military 2.0?
Counterinsurgencies have been called learning competitions. With COIN, the side that learns faster and adapts more rapidly – the side with the better learning organization – usually wins.

A good friend of mine just forward me a Department of Defense request (sorry no link it was via email):

Counterinsurgency Campaign Design […]

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My first take on the HP - Omnicom deal

To start off I want to reiterate the disclaimer in my sidebar. This is all my opinion not HP’s. I have no real details that haven’t already been stated in the release, just my opinion.
Ron Coughlin (IPG’s SVP of Marketing) has been at HP almost exactly one month longer than me (he’s going […]

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Random Thoughts 4/19/2008

Jaffe Juice: Is it time to phase out the creative function?
One of the best posts from Joe in a while. I think (I always do) that new business models for agencies are going to drive some of the best innovations in the industry we’ve ever seen.
tags: jaffe, agency, creative, advertising, ncb

BBDO Becomes Sales Force […]

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Social Media is Journalisms Future

Newspaper editors aren’t happy with the changes in the Associated Press’ rate structure or the CEO’s comments that I mentioned here. With as valuable a service as they provide it seems to me like news papers and the AP are heading down separate paths. It will take some bold moves from some inovative […]

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