Stuart Foster is a marketing consultant in the Boston area. He specializes in brand management, social media, and blog outreach. He authors a blog at Thelostjacket.com. Tweetups. You can’t escape them. They are pretty much ubiquitous these days. The @ nametags. The random awkward conversations...

I have been ever so slightly *MIA* here, I realize.  This is due to several reasons - - some personal - - others just involve lots of work and lots of catching up on work!  I do have lots going on, though - so let me get right to it! A few months back, I did a post here about a site that I had lau...

Image by the waving cat via Flickr I am not going to bitch about the lack of heating, food or wifi. One reporter with a good sense of humor from the Guardian summed it up very well already. One thing that I don’t subscribe to is the quality of the speakers. I think most of the speakers had ver...

by Brian Solis It’s that time again, hard to believe that it’s already been a year. TechCrunch has announced the second annual Crunchies, co-produced with GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, and VentureBeat. But, before we talk about attending the event, let’s focus on nominating the mo...

Some of you may have heard the rumor that Marco Tabini and I are working on something.  You might have heard bits and pieces... but very few of you have heard the full story of how it came about, what it is, and where it's going. This post is not that announcement. This post is about my upcoming pr...

One of the more interesting ways I’ve experienced participating in a conference is being chairperson of the event. When you’re the chair you not only have to pay close attention to everything going on, but also you are well placed to absorb everything the presenters say as well as get a ...

One of my reflections on Disruptive Media, the conference in Stockholm last week in which I participated, is that being part of an event where everyone speaks a language that you don’t can present a few challenges. Luckily, this is Sweden I’m talking about where, just as in the Netherlan...

The new Brit Insurance Designs of the Year show started last week at the Design Museum, taking over from where the old Designer of the Year show left off in 2006. We went along on Saturday to take a look, and we'll tell you all about that in just a moment. But first, a gentle rant. The show is, as y...