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6 months as a corporate sell out

6 months ago I was pleasantly surprised at all the encouraging words I received after announcing that my life as an indie artist was over. Working at HP has been a huge shift for me. After a few months on the job I told my manager:
I feel like I’m being asked to play […]

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Announcing the Top Business Blog Contest Winners

Top Business Blog Contest
You helped choose the industry’s most valuable business blogs.
Now download the winning posts in free HP eBooks you can print and share.
In keeping to my promise to blog more about what I’m doing at HP, this post is about my most recent HP campaign. I’m not going to breakdown the successes […]

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A lot changes over a year.

I’m at the SFO airport enjoying my overpriced Firewood Cafe pizza and I felt the need to write a post I’ve been thinking about all month. I didn’t want to pay for the wifi since my layover isn’t that long so you’re getting my second mobile post via Opera mini (that’s my way of warning […]

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Vote for your favorite business advice blog post

Well here it is. This my first ‘official’ campaign since joining HP. Using the WetPaint wiki that HP has built for there “What do you have to say?” campaign we partnered with several Federated Media authors to sponsor a blog competition.
VOTE on the industry’s most valuable business blogs! It’s no secret that the […]

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Heading to Vegas for CES

I lived in Vegas for almost 5 years and I never went to COMDEX or CES. I actually avoided the strip during those events. As a local, millions of drunken geeks, were a thing to flee from. Especially when the porn industry trade show used to happen at the same time - […]

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Internal Corporate Social Networking

I’ve gotten a few questions lately on an older post of mine about using Web 2.0 tools inside the company firewall.  One of those queries came in the form of an email from Michelle Rafter.  Michelle writes for Inc. Technology and wrote a post specifically dealing with how companies are using or can use Social […]

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Web 2.0 Summit: Day 1 Highlights

I’ll blog more in detail on some expanded thoughts but I thought I would give some quick highlights from the first day:
Tabblo: I haven’t heard Antonio Rodriguez, the founder of Tabblo speak before (Tabblo was acquired by HP six months ago). I was much more impressed with his product after seeing him talk […]

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I’ve Got a Golden Ticket

I’m pretty excited about getting to go to the Web 2.0 Summit. First I got an email two weeks ago apologizing that the summit was full, then I got an email last week from my friend Jared, saying that he scored me a ticket. HP is one of the sponsors so I’m sure […]

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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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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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