So you all want a story? ok. I will tell one maybe two. David and I were young then. And we were tentmates. This trip forced us to go without certain items for a period of days. We had to carry what we ate, so we did not shop for junk food or munchies. We all had huge packs that we carried our tents...

Jon Ortiz’s beatblog, The State Worker, and his users helped force Gov. Schwarzenegger’s hand in making a furlough policy change. State workers in California have to take two furlough days each month as part of an effort to save money. The governor’s office occilated between two d...

I have to suspend my hatred for all things Michigan (I am originally a Buckeye, after all) when it involves good bands. And such was the case for the Michigan Bailout Tour stop in Louisville — which included Javelins , The Hard Lessons and My Dear Disco — I couldn’t hold their Wolv...

In our continued effort to understand the American moviegoer’s psyche, we uncover a diamond of truth revealed to us this weekend during the Watchmen premiere. At the expense of throwing away originality, we love stories that we already know. Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the greatest graph...

Back in 1987, reviewing a book by Julian Schnabel, cantankerous art critic Robert Hughes wrote, "he has set some kind of a record for premature retrospection." Hughes added the caveat, "at least among artists," given that American culture was already quite sodden with celebrity tell-alls by the late...

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Customer service is something that affects me. And you, for that matter. We bitch about it, are delighted by it if its good, even though it should be expected to be good. What is absolutely apparent... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM a...

Last month we began work in earnest on the Social Media Buyers Guide project by starting to collect information, ideas and questions on the Social Media Club wiki.  Last week we hosted our first podcasts. Today we are beginning to seek contributions to our formal Social Media Buyers Guide Survey th...

Two of our favorite beatbloggers, Kent Fischer and Tawnell Hobbs of the DISD Blog, were recognized by the Education Writers Association for the best multimedia education blog. The Education Writers Association (EWA), the national professional association of education reporters and writers, today ann...

In December 2008, the New York Israel Consulate held the first government press conference on Twitter and in doing so public diplomacy took one more step into social media. The purpose of the 2-hour open conversation in 140 characters was to engage and provide the public with a platform where citize...