My friend Og directed me to this great post on Best Buy CMO Barry Judge’s blog. The concept of the new Best Buy Twelpforce is as simple as simple can be: crowdsourcing consumer help via Twitter. While it is social media, it’s not so much about supplanting traditional advertising — they still need mass broadcast to [...]

Assorted nonsense and marginally relevant shenanigans via my personal delicious.com bookmarks. – 25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity: A couple of gems in this list I didn't know about before. Niice. – Debunking Social Media Myths: A short and sweet read from David Armano on social media seeding, feeding and weeding. – [...]

As a result of my AAF-KC/Ad2 presentation with Mark Logan of Barkley and Joe Grigsby of VML on personal branding via social media a few weeks ago — “Link, Poke & Tweet” — we were each interviewed by the local NBC station as part of their “Workers Wanted Wednesdays” series. Watch the clip below… [Permalink]

Social Media: an open-air market located at the intersection of voyeurism and narcissism, where the currency exchanged is cultural in nature and often has no value outside the borders of this odd collection of shops and huts. And for every shopkeeper that is able to create a successful franchise there are hundreds of beggars scraping [...]

For me, late night surfing is always the best. When I’m on the web at work, I have to be very task focused — Google for quick dive into an unfamiliar topic, eMarketer or some other info/fact site for an illustrative statistic for a presentation, maybe (if I’m lucky) a quick a read of a [...]