Now that Mashable has finally acknowledged what all y'all have been thinking for years -- that the party blows up when Verdino shows up (see Tweetup DO #5 in Stuart C. Foster's post on organizing successful Tweetups) -- I'm sure you'll all be thrilled to hear that I will be at the SXSW Intera...

I happened upon an interesting short film by a photographer named Zack Arias and liked it so much that I decided to share it here.  I'm not much of a photographer and maybe you're not either.  If you are, you certainly don't read my blog for photo tips.  None of that matters.  I'm not sharing th...

As a former sociology major, I have a thing for statistics.  But that doesn't mean I don't sometimes find it difficult to wrap my head around big numbers -- especially when we're talking about numbers that are global in scale.  For example, there are 19 blog posts published per second.  Sounds li...

Regular readers (and raving fans) know that I spoke at the American Marketing Association's MPlanet 2009 conference this week.  I didn't have the chance to catch too many of the sessions, but I did sit in on the keynote by American Express CMO John Hayes.  At the end of his talk, John laid out a s...

Unless you're new 'round these parts, you know that I've been working the CES beat on behalf of Panasonic (a crayon client.)  I had intended to do do lots of blogging and share lots of multimedia, but I was so busy over the past few days that -- other than a post on my first day in Vegas -- I haven...

 We social media types seem to spend an awful lot of time agonizing over ways to grow our network and (dare I say it) the amount of influence we wield.  This scenario is played out daily on Twitter and, in many ways, Twitter is a micro-representation of the larger social mediasphere.  For my own ...

I'm happy to announce that I'll be taking the MarketingProfs "virtual stage" on January 22nd, presenting a 90 minute online seminar about conversational marketing.  This web event is free for MProfs Premium Plus members and $129 for everyone else. You can learn more and register at MarketingProfs. ...

Yep, it's that time of year again -- time for the marketing bloggerati to polish up their crystal balls and make some bold statements about what you can expect in the coming year.  And you, faithful readers, scour the web looking for even just a few useful nuggets from your favorite bloggers and in...

Music and fashion have long provided people with important means of self-expression.  A new company called i/denti/tee , conceived and launched by non-traditional-agency-like-object Anomoly, aims to aims to monetize the space where music and fashion meet.  I like their model, which sits at the int...

"I will follow you.  You will follow me.All the days and night that we know will be." Oh Phil Collins, you balding seer of online social networking.  How could you have possibly known that thirty years after Genesis released ...And Then There Were Three... a band of raging Twitterati would be angu...