Archive for April, 2006

Relationship vs. Conversation

In the last couple of weeks there’s been a metric ton of discussion around the Chevy Tahoe Apprentice campaign. If you’ve been on a desert island and haven’t heard the overview, Chevy recaps it this way:
By now, many of you have heard about the Chevy Tahoe’s appearance on a recent episode of the Apprentice. As [...]

Delicious Daily Posting Setup

As part of wrapping up BlogFusion version 5.0, I’m finalizing new tech that allows me to use the Delicious Daily Posting functionality. This allows me to display  the links I’ve added to delicious each day on my blog. Pretty cool feature, and lets me show you what I’m paying attention to in the course of [...]

Make your own opportunties

I picked up the highly recommended Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing this weekend and started skimming it last night. Without trying to recap the entire concept, the point was being made that real money comes from making your own opportunities without having to spend tons of money to get there.

We are living in absolutely incredible [...]

Nothing like a good parody

Anyone who:

is a brand manager
works with brand managers
does marketing of any sort for a living

…will enjoy this site:

verysuccessfulbrandmanager.com

Funny stuff. Nothing like poking ourselves every once in a while!

Great finds

I’ve come across a couple of great blogs lately that I’ve either just found or not paid due attention to in the past. Check them out, I’ll be here when you get back.

Customer Experience Strategy
Customers on Fire
Functioning Form
Blog Business World
Advertising ourselves to death

Reminder: Speaking at Experiental Marketing Summit

Just a reminder (there’s still time to book tickets!), I’ll be speaking at the Experiential Marketing Summit on May 8-10 in Chicago. Here’s the topic overview:

EVENT TWIST: SUPPORTING YOUR OWN CUSTOMERS’ EVENTS
The most passionate customers don’t wait for your marketing. Fan clubs and fanfests are popping up left and right as brand evangelists (Star Wars [...]

I’m not dead, I swear

Wow, what a crazy last couple of weeks. Lots of projects, new business work, and documentation like I’ve not done in a while. My poor little fingers are typed to the bone.

I’ll be back in the blogging game starting next week, even though I’m off to Louisville for meetings one day next week.

In the meantime, [...]

Quote of the day

Steve said, in reference to online communities:

"Unrest compliments serenity… otherwise you couldn’t tell them apart"

Classic!

Music Meme

I don’t talk too much about me personally on the blog… probably a good thing, perhaps not (let me know in the comments). But I saw this music meme and thought I’d give it a whirl:

HOW MANY SONGS DO YOU HAVE? 12,656

SORT BY SONG TITLE:
First = () - Sigur Ros
Last = Zoot Suit Riot by [...]

Speaking at Refresh Dallas

If you’re one of my Dallas readers, come by next week to the Refresh Dallas meeting. The discussion is a panel discussion, which is my far my favorite format.

This installment of Refresh Dallas is a roundtable chat with a few local social media mavens Brian Oberkirch, John Keeler, Jake McKee, Blake Burris). There may [...]