Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) was on Charlie Rose last week talking about business, the economy, reinventing your business, the kindle, the future of reading, and much more. I love Jeff Bezos and I think he’s one of the greatest business minds around - and he’s awesome to hear speak. Some note...

Media Philosopher » Why Social Media Measurement is like Gourmet Cooking It is easy to predict that we will be talking a lot more about social media measurement and ROI in 2009. The question of ROI becomes more important when there is a market transition from an established form or investment (i.e....

Twestival is a world-wide tweetup for charity… How cool is that? The Twestival is organized 100% by volunteers in cities around the world and 100% of the money raised from these events will go directly to support charity: water projects. And here’s 5 Reasons you should attend the Des Moi...

I really don’t get the “Social Media Expert” or “Social Media Consultant” backlash that is spreading across the interwebs. People are making snide comments all over the place saying “Well, everyone thinks they are a social media consultant” or “People ...

Web Strategy: How to Measure your Social Media Program Situation: You run a social media program at a corporation, and you need to measure to improve your program, but more importantly to show to your bosses that this ‘new media’ program is worth it’s weight. Challenges: You see the immediate ...

Top Secret: Get Your E-mails Opened - Email marketing tips With floods of e-mail arriving every hour, most people are ruthless about deleting anything they even suspect won’t interest them. Not only that, they’re also just as likely to report unwanted e-mails as spam as they are to delet...

Today we discussed why your business needs to use Amazon S3. Well, we didn’t discuss how you actually use Amazon S3. Here are 4 apps you can use to manage your Amazon S3 account on your Mac… 1. Transmit (free trial, recommended) We use Transmit for FTP on the Mac, so it was a natural fit...

Over the weekend WordPress outdid themselves and again proved why they are the most used platform on the web. They announced Wordpress.tv featuring tutorials, WordpCamp footage, and other slideshows and presentations - all for the WordPress community of users and developers. Hey WordPress - we love ...

Guest post from Michael Libbie Michael Libbie is the President of Insight Advertising, Marketing, and Communications in Des Moines, IA. I asked Michael for a guest post because I know he’s just as passionate about the subject of the future of media as I am. Read his blog and follow him on Twit...

The recent Gannett layoffs hit us home here in Des Moines and sparked our week long coverage on the future of the media and journalism. Brian Duffy drew the only cartoon left on the front pages of national newspapers for the last 25 years at the Des Moines Register. Until last week… Duffy refl...